WASHINGTON (Gray DC) – President Donald Trump addresses the annual March for Life demonstration on the National Mall. He previewed his pre-recorded remarks before departing for a multi-state trip to North Carolina, California, Nevada and Florida.
In 2020, President Trump became the first sitting president to appear in person at the March for Life. This year, he’s appearing by video – because of a visit to the disaster zones in Asheville, North Carolina and Southern California.
The March for Life marks the anniversary of the now-overturned Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in the United States. President Trump spoke to reporters about the event before departing on his multi-state trip.
“The March for the March for Life is a big march for life. I’m going to be watching it and JD Vance, our vice president, is there, and he’s going to be representing us very well, taking place in a little while, and other than being a little bit cold, it’s a beautiful day.”
Just a day before the March, President Trump signed pardons for 23 anti-abortion protesters – who were convicted of illegally blockading a reproductive health clinic in Washington, D.C.
“We’re all for it. In fact, as you know, I just signed a pardon, and in the pardon we released 23 people that were unjustly put in having to do with pro-life, and they will be released and they’ll be out very shortly. It was disgraceful.”
At the march, Vice President JD Vance promised, this will be, “the most pro-family, most pro-life American president of our lifetimes.”
For the first time in the March’s half-century history, the leaders of both the House and the Senate will also appear at the March for Life.
For Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R. La.), the annual event is deeply personal, “I was born in January 1972. It was almost exactly one year before Roe v. Wade became the law of the land. I was the product of an unplanned teen pregnancy, and I am so eternally grateful that my mom and dad ignored all the people who told them to just take care of that problem, and they chose to embrace life and to have me, the first of their four children. It’s a simple fact, a very simple fact, that had they not done that, I would not be here. 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.”
Despite the President’s anti-abortion position, not one of the slew of executive orders he’s signed in his first week in office has pertained directly to abortion.
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