The 2025 March for Life in Washington D.C. was a monumental moment for the pro-life movement. Not merely because it is the largest annual gathering of people fighting to protect the unborn, but because this year’s March marked the first time both a sitting president and vice president offered remarks in front of thousands offering their support for men, women, and the unborn who are harmed by abortion.

The March was Vice President J.D. Vance’s first public speech in his new role. His message was clear: “We stand with you.” President Donald Trump appeared in a video, but his message was equally impactful. “Your mission is just,” the president proclaimed, and it is “very, very pure, to forge a society that welcomes and protects every child as a beautiful gift from the hand of our Creator.” And these statements do not stand alone. Despite being less than two weeks into his second term, Trump has made numerous decisions that have been welcomed and celebrated by those in the pro-life movement.

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On Tuesday’s “Washington Watch,” Family Research Council Vice President for Policy and Government Affairs Travis Weber detailed some of these “positive pro-life initiatives and actions.” As he put it, the biggest win thus far may very well be the “executive order announcing that it will be a policy of this administration for federal dollars to comply with the Hyde Amendment to ensure that tax dollars are not being used to fund abortions.” He added that “with all the challenges of our nation and the challenges that families are facing, [this] should be a no- brainer. The hard-earned tax dollars of the American people should not be funding abortions.”

In addition to this, Weber explained how the Mexico City Policy, which Trump implemented and expanded, “also prohibits U.S. tax dollars from being used to fund abortions or abortion promoting organizations overseas.” The hope, he emphasized, is that there would be a bill “passed into law that would codify that as a policy of the United States legislatively. But we’re glad that President Trump has reissued the strong Mexico City Policy, along with the Hyde Amendment executive order.”

Outside of these actions, Weber explained how Trump’s foreign aid review also plays into his pro-life EOs from his first week in office. “[W]e’ve been raising concerns about the use of foreign aid programs to push abortion,” he stated, “including the PEPFAR program, which has spent $100 billion since 2003, and was recently found to have funded [some] abortions in Mozambique.” But this, as Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) previously pointed out, “is just the tip of the iceberg.” According to Weber, President Trump and his team had already announced “the 90-day freeze on foreign aid and have issued memos requiring review of where U.S. dollars are being used to fund abortions or gender ideology overseas.”

Ultimately, the goal is that Trump’s actions “will clean up everything the United States has been shamefully pushing around the world and give us a clean slate for the U.S. to actually correct some of the black mark that’s been on our image globally.” And on the topic of cleaning up poor decisions, Weber also addressed the news that Trump, to the satisfaction of many, granted pardons for the pro-lifers who were prosecuted for peacefully protesting outside abortion facilities during the Biden administration.

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins added that, in addition to the pro-life accomplishments, there have been several noteworthy developments on the gender issue that bleed into the pro-life wins. For instance, when Trump announced that there are only two recognized genders, male and female, he also included “a recognition that conception is the point in which these things are determined.” According to Perkins, Trump’s executive order on this matter acknowledged that conception is “where the personhood, the idea, identity, the gender [of a person] is determined. … So, that is also a strong pro-life statement.”

Weber concluded by emphasizing that there has been no shortage of “good announcements [on] the life issue.” Moving forward, “we’ll continue keeping an eye on what’s happening through the administration, especially [with] the implementation of this cleanup process. … We want to make sure [America is] cleaned up of anti-family provisions to hopefully be used for pro-family provisions, both at home and around the world.”

LifeNews Note: Sarah Holliday is a reporter at The Washington Stand, where this originally appeared

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