Abortion Policy and Politics

At Friday’s March for Life in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump addressed tens of thousands of anti‑abortion demonstrators in a prerecorded video while Vice President JD Vance, House Speaker Mike Johnson and evangelical figure Cissie Graham Lynch spoke in person, all casting the post‑Roe fight against abortion as unfinished. The White House said Trump signed a proclamation declaring "National Sanctity of Human Life Day" and highlighted recent steps by federal agencies to restrict abortion funding, bolster religious and conscience protections, and roll back Biden‑era guidance. Vance called treating "babies like inconveniences" a mark of barbarism and framed protection of the unborn as central to American civilization, while Johnson described himself as the child of an "unplanned teen pregnancy" whose parents rejected advice to "take care of that problem." Graham Lynch recounted how attending the March for Life years ago shifted her from silence to activism and warned that overturning Roe took nearly 50 years and "the fight isn’t over yet" because abortions continue daily. The coordinated messaging underscores how the administration and allied Christian organizations are using the high‑profile rally to claim credit for Roe’s reversal and to justify further federal limits on abortion funding and access.