Trump promises to bring perpetrators of attacks on pregnancy centers to justice.
President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance reassured pro-life supporters on Friday that their administration will again stand with the pro-life community as it seeks to build on the gains made during Trump’s first term.
“In my second term, we will again stand proudly for families and for life,” Trump told attendees at the national March for Life in a virtual address from the Oval Office.
Vance’s remarks echoed those of Trump.
“I want to be clear that this administration stands by you,” Vance said in his first public appearance since being sworn into office Monday. “We stand with you, and most importantly, we stand with the most vulnerable.”
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In his first term, Trump repeatedly sided with the pro-life cause, most notably with his nomination of three Supreme Court justices whose votes were critical in the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. Even so, some pro-life leaders grew concerned during the 2024 campaign with remarks by Trump and Vance on such issues as the abortion pill and state-level pro-life measures.
On Friday, though, both Trump and Vance said their administration would defend the unborn.
“Each year,” Trump said, “Americans of every age, color and background travel to our nation's capital by the tens of thousands to stand up for precious little babies who cannot stand up for themselves.”
Trump offered a preview of his pro-life goals for a second term.
“We will protect the historic gains we have made and stop the radical Democrat push for a federal right of unlimited abortion on demand up to the moment of birth and even after birth,” he said. “We will work to offer a loving hand to new mothers and young families, and we will support adoption and foster care. We will protect women and vulnerable children. Under my leadership, a reformed Department of Justice will finally investigate the radical left attacks on churches and crisis pregnancy centers, and we will bring perpetrators to justice.”
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The president also said he would “end the weaponization of law enforcement against Americans of faith.” On Thursday, he signed a pardon for 23 pro-life activists who had been prosecuted by the Biden administration.
Trump noted that he was “proud” to have been the first sitting president to address the March for Life in person during its 2020 gathering. He also reiterated his pride in contributing to the overturning of Roe.
“This annual march started 52 years ago on the first anniversary of the disastrous ruling known as Roe v Wade,” the president said. “That unconstitutional decision took power away from the states and the voters, kicking off 50 years of division and anger.”
“But thanks to your tireless work and devotion across five decades, that historic wrong was set right three years ago,” he said. “I was so proud to be a participant. Six courageous justices of the Supreme Court of the United States returned the issue to the state legislatures and to the people where it belongs.”
“It became a vote of the people,” he added.
Trump concluded in his address by telling the pro-life crowd, “Your mission is just.”
Both Trump and Vance’s remarks met with enthusiasm from the crowd. Marchers chanted “J.D.” in anticipation of Vance taking the stage and as he exited.
“We march to protect the unborn,” Vance said in his comments. “We march to proclaim and live out the sacred truth that every single child is a miracle and a gift from God.”
The cultural battle for the unborn, Vance said, involves a fight to change hearts and minds. At the same time, he said, government policies must assist pregnant women.
“We failed a generation, not only by permitting a culture of abortion on demand, but also by neglecting to help young parents achieve the ingredients they need to live a happy and meaningful life,” he said. “A culture of radical individualism took root, one where the responsibilities and joys of family life were seen as obstacles to overcome, not as personal fulfillment or personal blessings. Our society has failed to recognize the obligation that one generation has to another is a core part of living in a society to begin with.
“So let me say very simply: I want more babies in the United States of America,” said Vance. “I want more happy children in our country. And I want beautiful young men and women who are eager to welcome them into the world and eager to raise them. And it is the task of our government to make it easier for young moms and dads to afford to have kids, to bring them into the world and to welcome them as the blessings that we know they are here at the March for Life.
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“It should be easier -- easier to raise a family, easier to find a good job, easier to build a home, to raise that family in, easier to save up and purchase a good stroller, a crib for a nursery,” he said. “We need a culture that celebrates life at all stages, one that recognizes and truly believes that the benchmark of national success is not our GDP number or our stock market, but whether people feel that they can raise thriving and healthy families in our country.”
Vance credited Trump with nominating “hundreds of pro-life judges,” safeguarding the “constitutional liberties of all Americans,” and supporting “pro-family policies” such as the doubling of the Child Tax Credit. The Trump administration, he said, will build on that tax credit during the second term.
Trump supports the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, Vance said.
“The crowd assembled here at this incredible National Mall provides an extraordinary example for our nation,” Vance told the audience. “You donate to diaper banks. You help find housing for those in need. You help fund the crisis pregnancy centers that give help to young women and young men in a time of crisis. You guys are the beating heart of the pro-life movement, and you have saved many lives already, and you're going to save more again. You remind us that the March for Life is not just a single event that happens on a frigid January day. The March for Life is the work of the pro-life movement every single day from this point forward.”
Vance urged the pro-life community to continue the fight for the unborn.
“You make it possible for us to stand here and say that America is fundamentally a pro-baby, a pro-life and a pro-family country,” he said.
