Pregnancy help received nods from President Donald Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and other speakers at this year’s March for Life rally on Friday. Trump also pledged to bring perpetrators of violence and vandalism on pregnancy centers to justice.
The new Trump administration fostered excitement among pro-life pilgrims at the March as it had just ushered in some welcome pro-life wins on its very first day earlier in the week, including removal of the removal of the ReproductiveRights.gov website and an apparent easing of censorship of Abortion Pill Reversal. Three days later on the day preceding the March Trump pardoned 23 pro-life advocates prosecuted and sentenced under the FACE Act. He delivered his remarks to the March for Life rally Friday via video while others spoke in person.
Trump and others’ praise for pregnancy help before the March for Life rally on Friday came as pro-life wins continued to pour in, Trump indicating support for the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, and later in the day reinstating the Mexico City Policy and announcing that the United States would rejoin the Geneva Consensus Declaration. He would also go on to issue an executive order Friday enforcing the Hyde Amendmentent. And in an executive order earlier in the week affirming that there are two sexes Trump acknowledged that life begins at conception.
“Each year, 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 said in his video message of the March. “I am proud to be the first president ever to have joined you in person.”
Trump had made history with the March for Life in 2020 by being the first sitting president to appear at the March for Life in person. He recognized pregnancy help that year as well, telling pregnancy help providers: "You just make it your life's mission to help spread God's grace.”
The 2025 March rally was similarly notable too, with Vice President J.D. Vance making his first public appearance since he was sworn in Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appearing and discussing the battle in his state to defeat the radical Amendment 4, and leaders of both chambers in the U.S. Congress, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA), also addressed the March for Life rally in person – a first.
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Before touching on pregnancy help Trump first pledged to stand for families and life in his second term and stop the “radical Democrat push for a federal right to unlimited abortion on demand up to the moment of birth, and even after birth: Think of that, after birth; and some people want that, can you believe it?
“We will work to offer a loving hand to new mothers and young families, and we will support adoption and foster care,” he then said. “We will protect women and vulnerable children.”
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He went on to promise that “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.”
“We will get them to justice, one way or the other,” Trump said. “I will also end the weaponization of law enforcement against Americans of faith, and I’m releasing the Christians and pro-life activists who were persecuted by the Biden regime for praying and living out their faith.”
Vance said the task of the pro-life movement is to protect innocent life, defend the unborn, and to be pro-family and pro-life “in the fullest sense of that word possible.”
Elaborating, he discussed knowing people who have faced unplanned pregnancy, and drew a contrast between the pro-life movement and its support for women in unexpected pregnancy and the overall culture.
“And I know how many of you in this crowd have devoted immeasurable time and resources to help answer those questions and to lend a hand to young people facing a moment of desperation,” Vance said. “But by and large, our society, our country, has not yet stepped up in the way you have. And our government certainly has failed in that important responsibility."
He said the government had failed a generation by permitting a culture of abortion on demand and neglecting to help young parents achieve “the ingredients needed to live a happy and meaningful life.”
Decrying radical individualism and its negative effect on family life, Vance said 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,” he stated, to enthusiastic applause.
“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,” said Vance.
But he didn’t stop there.
“And I want to be clear that this administration stands by you,” he said. “We stand with you."
The crowd assembled on the national mall gives an extraordinary example for the nation, Vance said.
“You donate to diaper banks; you help find housing for those in need,” he said. “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,” said Vance, “and you have saved many lives already and you're going to save more again.”
Speaker Johnson told the crowd that, “By sharing your time and influence by volunteering to assist pregnancy resources centers, all the very practical ways we can assist, using our voices, using our influence, it’s going to make a difference.”
Johnson shared how he was born a year before Roe v. Wade was decided, the product of an unplanned teen pregnancy.
“I am so eternally grateful that my mom and dad ignored all the people who told them to just “take care of that problem,” he said. “And they chose to embrace life and to have me, the first of their four children.”
“It’s a very simple fact that had they not done that then I would not be here,” Johnson said, “and I often wonder who else we have missed and what those individuals might have contributed to our society and our world, but they were just never given the opportunity.”
Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ) said that the March was “an engraved invitation to each and every one of us to seriously recommit and rededicate ourselves to the defense of the weakest and the most vulnerable.”
“To recommit with love and compassion, even for our opponents,” he said, “to tangibly assist women, especially through the extraordinary work of pregnancy care centers in order to protect their precious babies, but also to protect their lives.”
Smith noted the just released Knights of Columbus-Marist poll, which found that 83% of Americans support pregnancy centers.
“Pregnancy care centers as you know are under siege by some politicians but especially by Planned Parenthood which has killed more than 10 million babies in their clinics,” said Smith. “We must end all taxpayer subsidies to Planned Parenthood.”
Trump, in closing, remarked on the frigid winter temps of the day, and said, “I know your hearts are warm and your spirits are strong because your mission is just very, very pure: to forge a society that welcomes and protects every child as a beautiful gift from the hand of our Creator.”
Editor's note: This article has been updated to include additional information.
