WASHINGTON—Vice President JD Vance will headline the March for Life next Friday in Washington, D.C., this year, The Daily Wire can first report.
Vance will speak Friday, January 23, at one of the largest human rights demonstrations in the world, which is held every year on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade in defense of the hundreds of thousands of unborn babies whose lives are ended through abortion every year in the United States.
“Vice President Vance is grateful to the tens of thousands of Americans who travel to the National Mall each year to speak out in support of life, and looks forward to joining them for the second consecutive year,” a spokesman for the vice president told The Daily Wire.
“President Trump has delivered more victories for the pro-life movement than any president in history,” the spokesman added, “and the vice president will continue to fight for the right to life alongside the president and his administration.”
This is the second time that Vance will speak at the annual March for Life. Last year, ahead of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Vance gave his first remarks as vice president to the thousands of pro-life Americans who gathered on the National Mall. He promised the march that “we will be back next year,” and he is keeping his word.
“It is a blessing to know the truth, and the truth is that unborn life is worthy of protection,” Vance told the thousands of pro-life demonstrators last year. “So please, go forth, not with frustration, but with joy.”
“We are joyful to March for Life,” he said. “We are joyful to know that that picture on an ultrasound, that is a picture of baby with hopes and dreams and potential to come. It is a joy and a blessing to fight for the unborn, to work for the unborn, and to March for Life.”
Vice President JD Vance speaks at the 2025 March for Life (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
Vance, who supported the pro-life movement as both a senator and as vice president of the United States, has described himself as “100% pro-life.”
“If you’re not willing to stand up to the left on abortion, you can’t be trusted on anything else,” Vance said in 2022. “The pro-life position is the pro-people position and I’m proud to be 100% pro-life.”
Jennie Bradley Lichter, the new president of the March for Life, told The Daily Wire that the march is “thrilled” to have Vance back: “We are absolutely delighted that he’s keeping his promise and coming back to spend the day again with our pro-life marchers gathered from across the country to stand up for life.”
Lichter believes that Vance’s presence shows that the Trump administration recognizing the pro-life movement as an important part of its coalition, and an “important part of a winning conservative coalition.” She also pointed out that in years past, the Trump administration has pegged “significant pro-life policy announcements to the March for Life” or the evening before.
“I anticipate that we will see something similar,” she shared. “I hope that the VP will be coming with some exciting news for the pro-life movement.”
Trump himself spoke at the March for Life himself in 2019, several years before the Supreme Court overturned Roe, a massive pro-life win thanks to the president’s appointments to the Court.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, Congressman Chris Smith, and other pro-life figures will also speak at the march, which is themed, “Life Is A Gift,” emphasizing “that life is very good and worthy of protection, no matter the circumstances.”
“When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God’s creation,” Trump said at the 2019 march. “When we hold a newborn in our arms, we know the endless love that each child brings to a family. When we watch a child grow, we see the splendor that radiates from each human soul. One life changes the world. From my family — and I can tell you, I send love and I send great, great love.”
Trump is the most pro-life president in United States history, holding a strong record of pro-life action since he took office: he reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy during his first week in office in 2017, issued a landmark pro-life rule to govern the use of Title X taxpayer funding, told Congress he would veto any legislation that weakens pro-life policies or encourages the destruction of human life, and warned the United Nations away from attacking the sovereignty of nations that protect innocent life.
“Unborn children have never had a stronger defender in the White House,” he told the March for Life in 2019.
President Donald Trump speaks at the 2019 March For Life (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
In his second administration, the president has continued to defend life, though he has discussed abortion far less, partially due to the fact that Roe was overturned. The president has reflected frankly on how the issue of abortion plays electorally, and pointed out that the country is not unified on when and where to protect life.
In January 2025, the president issued an executive order enforcing the Hyde Amendment, which bans the use of taxpayer funds for abortions, and reinstated the Mexico City Policy, which stops the use of taxpayer funds overseas. He quickly pardoned the pro-life activists imprisoned by President Joe Biden’s administration, and he has revoked many of the Biden-era executive orders promoting abortion across the country.
Far-left pro-abortion groups regard the administration with fear and condemnation. One such group, the Center for Reproductive Rights, claims that in his first 100 days in office, “President Trump has taken unprecedented action to restrict access to reproductive health care in the United States and around the world.”
“His administration is stacked with extreme opponents of reproductive freedom working day and night to undermine the rule of law we depend on to uphold our fundamental rights,” the far-left abortion group stated. “Individually, these officials have great power; together, they will do long-lasting damage to human rights and to our democracy.”
At the same time, the pro-life movement wants Trump to do much more. Many on the right, including top Republicans like Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, have expressed concerns that the Department of Health and Human Services is slow-walking a review of abortion drugs, highlighting the growing body of evidence showing that the drugs are causing severe and underreported harm to women.
Though pro-lifers are afraid that HHS will not pull through and demand that the department reinstate abortion drug safety standards removed under the Biden administration, pro-abortion groups like the Guttmacher Institute warn direly that the administration has “initiated steps that could culminate in the severe restriction of mifepristone,” promising that if the Trump administration reinstates safety standards for the drugs, “it would also have a devastating impact on abortion.”
Trump also prompted strong concerns from the pro-life movement when he suggested to Republican lawmakers this month that they might need to be “a little bit flexible” on Hyde as they negotiated with Democrats on health care.
The remark shocked both his pro-life base and Capitol Hill, prompting strong pushback from pro-life groups like SBA Pro-Life America — pushback that the administration took note of, White House officials said.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told The Daily Signal’s Elizabeth Troutman at an early January press briefing that Trump did not change the administration’s policy on Hyde, reminding the public that “it was President Trump who signed an executive order protecting the Hyde Amendment” on his fourth day in office.
“It’s the Trump administration that has taken multiple actions on various fronts to ensure that taxpayer dollars are not funding the practice of abortion,” she said. “What the president was saying yesterday was Republicans, and frankly Democrats, too, need to show a little bit more flexibility so we can actually get something done with respect to the issue of health care.”
Lichter sees challenges on several fronts for the pro-life movement. Not only are pro-lifers battling for policy changes, she says, but they are also battling matters of life and death for women and their unborn babies. They are also up against a changing cultural landscape.
“I think we’re still shaking off the 50 years of the Roe regime,” she explained, “and what [activists] had told young women about their future and their flourishing and how motherhood might be detrimental to them, which of course isn’t true at all, but it takes a little while to shake off cultural messaging that sunk in that deep.”
“The pro life movement has a really great story to tell,” she shared. “It’s increasingly young. It’s increasingly energized.”
The March for Life president pointed to polling showing that Gen Z voters want to see limits on abortion, and lean towards identifying as “pro-life.” She cited this, as well as rising attendance at state level marches, as encouragement for pro-life movement.
“We saw record attendance at several of our state level marches for life this fall, she noted, “in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.”
“All of those things are great reasons for hope, just to see the usefulness of the movement and the way that young people especially are really willing to buck the ideology of the progressive establishment that they’ve been raised in and handed,” she concluded. “And again, I think we’ll see that on full display at the March next week. I’m expecting a really electric, really epic day.
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