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By Charles C. Camosy, First Things, February 5, 2025
Anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear knows that the pro-life movements have received some very important victories courtesy of the Trump administration. The horror show that was “reproductiverights.gov” is no more. The Mexico City policy was reenacted, meaning U.S. tax dollars may not be legally used to support the violence of abortion in other countries. Trump also signed an executive order that supports the Hyde Amendment’s ban on federal funding of abortion in the U.S. He pardoned pro-life activists who were unjustly jailed for peacefully protesting abortion in various contexts. The thrust of the born-alive protections for babies who survive abortions were made official administrative policy.
It was a firehose of good news during the very first week. And it all culminated in Vice President Vance giving one of the best pro-life speeches I’ve ever heard at the March for Life, one which I argue marks the formal start of Pro-Life 3.0. With the end of Roe and the coming of Trump populism, our movement is no longer beholden to a strange (at best) alliance with neoconservatives and libertarians. Our populist vice president focused his March for Life remarks squarely on being “pro-family and pro-life” in the “fullest sense” possible. …