Vice President JD Vance kicked off his second year in the White House with a return as the top speaker at the March For Life. In his headline speech, the Republican not only celebrated the victories that have saved countless babies from abortion over the last several years, but also committed the Trump administration to continuing its partnership with the pro-life movement.
“Our vision is simple. We want life to thrive in the United States of America,” Vance said mere days after he and Second Lady Usha Vance announced they are pregnant with their fourth child.
Vance used most of his time on the March For Life’s National Mall stage to tout the Trump administration’s pro-life track record including historic pardons for the prayerful protestors persecuted and prosecuted by the Biden administration, undoing Biden-era taxpayer-funded abortion at home and overseas, and expanding conscience protections for medical professionals with religious or moral objections to ending life in the womb.
The VP also made sure to credit President Donald Trump and the U.S. Supreme Court for the historic Dobbs v. Jackson decision that overturned 50 years of abortion under Roe v. Wade.
“With the Dobbs decision, what we did, what the President did, what the Supreme Court did, was put a definitive end to the tyranny of judicial rule on the question of human life,” Vance said. “He shattered a 50-year culture of disposability, one that treated human life as expendable the moment that it became inconvenient. And he empowered our nation and our movement to build a culture of life from the grassroots up. Over the last year — [I’ve] got to brag a little bit — our administration has worked very hard to lead that effort and to pick up the pieces, to clean up the wreckages of five decades of bad policy on the question of life.”
Vance also announced an expansion of the Trump administration’s ban on taxpayer-funded abortion promotion by nongovernmental organizations. Under the broadened Mexico City policy, Vance said the administration will “start blocking every international [NGO] that performs or promotes abortion abroad from receiving a dollar of U.S. money.”
While the VP acknowledged there is still much work to do, something he referred to as “an elephant in the room,” he committed to “hear” and “understand” the pro-life movement’s concerns.
“Let me tell you something very simple. Under this administration, again, from the president of the United States, the vice president, you have an ally in the White House,” Vance promised.
No matter what happens with pro-life policy on the federal or state level, Vance said Americans can’t afford to “be neutral” when it comes to protecting the sanctity of life.
“Our country cannot be indifferent about whether its next generations live or die,” he said.
Not only did Vance identify family and having children as “the source of a great joy,” but he acknowledged it is “part of God’s design for men and women, a design that extends outward from the family, to our neighborhoods, to our communities, and to the United States of America itself.”
“You’re never going to find great meaning in a cubicle or in front of a computer screen, but you will find great meaning if you dedicate yourself to the creation and sustenance of human life,” the father of four said.
Vance’s comments come mere weeks after Trump suggested sacrificing the Hyde Amendment, the longstanding prohibition on taxpayer-funded abortions, to secure a congressional healthcare deal. The White House has since attempted to walk back Trump’s comments urging the GOP to be “flexible on Hyde.”
During his video address to pro-lifers on Friday, Trump touted his administration’s efforts to end “forced taxpayer funding of abortion at home and abroad.”
Polling shows a majority of Americans, 67 percent, support limiting abortion. Approximately 57 percent of Americans say abortions should not occur beyond the first three months of pregnancy.
While some states used the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision to crack down on the murder of unborn babies, others, with the help of outside abortion activists, have worked to enshrine unlimited abortion for all in their state constitutions
The popularity of mail-order mifepristone also ensures that people in states where abortion is limited or prohibited can still obtain dangerous pills that not only end the life of unborn babies but often harm women. As documented in lawsuits and criminal cases, women have suffered abortion pill poisonings at the hands of men undoubtedly enabled by abortion activists’ drug trafficking schemes.
Recent polling suggests a majority of likely voters want the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to protect women from dangerous drug responsible for more than half of U.S. abortions. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary recently confirmed that a mifepristone review is underway and will be made public when results are finalized. Yet, the FDA added more abortion pill options to the market by approving a generic version of mifepristone in October.
Jordan Boyd is an award-winning staff writer at The Federalist and producer of “The Federalist Radio Hour.” Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.
