What Trump and Vance Told March for Life Crowd
On Friday thousands of supporters of the pro-life cause gathered to participate in the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C. and heard from President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who were sworn into office earlier this week
In a prerecorded video, Trump pledged that in his second term his administration would “again stand proudly for families and for life, we will protect the historic gains we have made 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.”
The 47th president also promised to support adoption and foster care and to investigate attacks on churches and crisis pregnancy centers. The president also noted his recent pardoning of pro-life activists.
“I will also end the weaponization of law enforcement against Americans of faith,” said Trump. “I’m releasing the Christian and pro-life activists who were persecuted by the Biden regime for praying and living out their faith.”
The vice president struck a similar note, making it clear that pro-life activists should no longer fear the Justice Department.
“No longer will the federal government direct FBI raids on the homes of people like Mark Houck and other Catholic and Christian activists who are fighting for the unborn every single day,” said Vance. The FBI came with guns to the house of Houck, a pro-life activist, and his wife and seven children without notice.
“And no longer will our government throw pro-life protesters and activists, elderly grandparents, or anybody else in prison. It stopped on Monday and we’re not going to let it come back to this country,” Vance added.
In his address, he also decried the anti-family culture of the United States.
“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 lead a happy and meaningful life,” he said.
Vance declared that he saw a role of the government to provide an environment that supported families.
“And it is the task of our government is 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.”
The 40-year-old, who has three young children with his wife Usha, continued:
Now 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.
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.
The vice president touted the record of Trump during his first term including his appointments of three justices of the Supreme Court who helped overturn Roe v. Wade, as well as dozens of pro-life federal judges.
Vance noted that just four days into his second term, Trump had already endorsed the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, and he promised that the Justice Department would no longer target pro-life activists.
The vice president concluded his speech by praising the pro-life marchers.
“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.”
