Trump, Vance address March for Life, pledge pro-life second Trump term

CV NEWS FEED // Both President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance addressed participants at the 52nd annual March for Life which took place in Washington, D.C. Friday, pledging that Trump’s second term would be staunchly pro-life and also bring pro-abortion groups to justice for attacking churches and pro-life clinics.

The president did not personally attend the march as he was traversing the country that day to meet with victims of both Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and the ongoing wildfires in southern California.

In a video message to the marchers, Trump thanked them “for turning out once again to show your extraordinary love and compassion for the unborn.”

“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,” the president continued. 

He added that he is “proud to be the first president ever to have joined you in person,” referring to when he spoke at the 2020 March for Life, the last march of his first term.

Trump went on to celebrate the landmark Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022. He decried Roe as a “disastrous ruling” and “unconstitutional decision” that “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.” During his first term, Trump appointed three of the six justices who voted to overturn Roe.

“In my second term, we will again stand proudly for families and for life,” Trump vowed. “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.”

“We will work to offer a loving hand to new mothers and young families, and we will support support adoption and foster care,” he stressed. “We will protect women and vulnerable children.”

The president promised that his “reformed Department of Justice will finally investigate the radical left attacks on churches and crisis-pregnancy centers, and we will bring perpetrators to justice.” He also referred to his series of nearly two dozen pardons the day before, “releasing the Christians and pro-life activists who were persecuted by the Biden regime for praying and living out their faith.”

Trump concluded his message: “To all of the very special people marching today in this bitter cold, 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.”

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In his speech to the marchers, Vance declared: “It is a blessing to know the truth, and the truth is that unborn life is worthy of protection.”

The vice president also spoke on the role certain policy reforms can play in building a culture of life. “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 we know they are here at the March for Life,” he said.

“It should be easier to raise a family,” Vance added. “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 continued.

“And that brings me back to where we stand today. I know all of you helped,” he said, referring to his and Trump’s historic November election victory.

Vance called Trump “the man who delivered on his promise of ending Roe, giving us a monumental, earth-shattering decision in Dobbs, the man who appointed hundreds of pro-life judges dedicated to defending the Constitutional liberties of all Americans, and the man who supported pro-family policies like doubling the child tax credit – which happened during his first administration, and which we’re going to do so much more on in the second administration.”

“The country faces the return of the most pro-family, most pro-life American president of our lifetimes,” Vance said.