Vice President JD Vance recently maintained that the United States government will no longer “throw pro-life protestors in prison.” Throughout the Biden administration, dozens of Americans were prosecuted and imprisoned for protesting the practice of abortion outside clinics around the country. However, Vance maintained that the federal government would no longer be weaponized against American citizens in such a way.
Vance’s remarks come as President Donald Trump issued pardons for 23 pro-life activists who were “persecuted by the Biden regime for praying and living out their faith.” Trump vigorously campaigned on defending and restoring religious liberties, maintaining such persecution will never be “allowed to happen in America again.
Giving his first public address since being inaugurated, Vance spoke at the 52nd annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., outlining how important it is to “defend the unborn.” According to the former Ohio senator, the federal government has failed to uphold this task over the last few years. “Our government certainly has failed in that important responsibility,” he declared.
“We failed a generation not only by permitting a culture of abortion on demand but also by neglecting to help young parents achieve the ingredients they need to live a happy and meaningful life,” Vance continued. “A culture of radical individualism took root, one where the responsibilities and joys of family life were seen as obstacles to overcome, not as personal fulfillment or personal blessings. Our society has failed to recognize the obligation that one generation has to another is a core part of living in a society to begin with.”
Voicing his pro-natalist sentiment amid the crashing fertility rates in America, he said, “I want more babies in the United States of America. I want more happy children in our country, and I want beautiful young men and women who are eager to welcome them into the world and eager to raise them. And it is the task of our government to make it easier for young moms and dads to afford to have kids, to bring them into the world and to welcome them as the blessings that we know they are.”
“It should be easier to raise a family, easier to find a good job, easier to build a home to raise that family in, easier to save up and purchase a good stroller, a crib for a nursery,” he said, demonstrating how the economy should be centered around the family unit. “We need a culture that celebrates life at all stages, one that recognizes and truly believes that the benchmark of national success is not our [gross domestic product] number or our stock market but whether people feel that they can raise thriving and healthy families in our country.”
Addressing pro-life protestors, Vance said their rights will be protected as the U.S. turns a new page. “It stopped on Monday and we’re not going to let it come back to this country. This administration stands by you, we stand with you, and most importantly, we stand with the most vulnerable and the basic principle that people exercising the right to protest on behalf of the most vulnerable should never have the government go after them ever again,” he asserted.
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