Vice President JD Vance is making it clear—America will no longer be a country that throws peaceful pro-life protesters in prison for standing up for the unborn. Speaking at the 52nd annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., Vance delivered a powerful message: the days of the federal government being weaponized against pro-life Americans are over.
His remarks come just days after President Donald Trump issued pardons for 23 pro-life activists who were targeted and imprisoned by the Biden administration for praying outside abortion clinics and advocating for life. Trump, who campaigned on restoring religious liberty and protecting the unborn, called their prosecution an outrage, vowing that such persecution will never be allowed to happen in America again.
Vance, giving his first major speech since taking office, laid out the new administration’s unwavering commitment to the pro-life movement. “For too long, our government has failed in its most basic responsibility: to defend the unborn,” he declared to a cheering crowd.
He did not mince words when criticizing the cultural decay that has fueled the abortion industry. “We failed a generation not only by permitting a culture of abortion on demand but also by neglecting to help young parents achieve what they need to build happy, meaningful lives,” Vance said. He blamed the rise of radical individualism, which he argued has twisted family life from a blessing into an obstacle.
The vice president also highlighted the ongoing crisis of declining birth rates, making the case for a pro-natalist, pro-family agenda. “I want more babies in the United States of America. I want more happy children in our country, and I want young men and women eager to welcome them into the world and raise them,” Vance proclaimed. “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.”
Vance called for policies that put families first, making it easier to raise children, buy homes, and provide for growing families. “It should be easier to raise a family, easier to find a good job, easier to build a home to raise that family in,” he emphasized. “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 they can raise thriving and healthy families in this country.”
Perhaps the most rousing moment came when Vance turned his attention back to the pro-life movement itself, promising that those who fight for life will no longer live in fear of government persecution. “What happened over the last few years—the arrests, the intimidation, the persecution of pro-life Americans—it stopped on Monday,” he declared. “And we’re not going to let it come back.”
“This administration stands by you, we stand with you, and most importantly, we stand with the most vulnerable—the unborn,” Vance said to thunderous applause.
Under Trump and Vance, America is turning the page on Biden’s radical abortion agenda. The fight for life is far from over, but for the first time in years, pro-life Americans have a voice in the White House that is unafraid to stand with them.
