Hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers are expected to gather this Friday in the nation’s capital for the annual March for Life. After voting out the most radical pro-abortion president in history, the marchers already have several victories to celebrate coming from Congress and the White House.
Former President Joe Biden packed up and left the Executive Mansion last Monday, carrying with him the radical abortion agenda he had pushed on the nation. Former Vice President Kamala Harris also said her good-byes after losing her bid running nearly exclusively on an “abortion-for-all” message. President Trump insisted her views, along with the Democrat Party backing her, were far more radical than they even revealed.
The fights on the House and Senate floors this week remind us just how radical the pro-abortion message has become. Both chambers of Congress are set to vote on the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act later this week. The Act simply clarifies that if an attempted abortion fails, meaning the baby survives, the health care practitioner is required to administer the proper degree of care to the infant outside the womb, just as they would any other infant. How can anyone think this controversial?
A 2002 bill signed by President Bush recognized the personhood of these children, but it did not provide any weighty protections or expectations regarding medical care. This is not a theoretical law. Melissa Ohden survived a medical attempt to take her life while she was in her mother’s womb. Now, 47 years later, she is the founder of The Abortion Survivors Network, an organization seeking to “break the silence surrounding abortion survival.” Melissa will be at the Capitol this week to advocate for the Born Alive measure on behalf of the Survivors Network.
Members of Congress will have to vote on whether the so-called choice to terminate the life of a baby extends to some babies who are already outside the womb. We are dealing with infanticide, accentuating some of President Trump campaign statements. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the bill by a vote of 220-210 in the previous Congress with only one Democrat, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas-28th), voting in favor, but it never passed the Democrat-controlled Senate. The Senate voted on the bill last Wednesday, but without the support of any democrats, it did not pass a filibuster.
The bill will likely pass the House within the week and will be the first legislative victory for pro-life advocates in the 119th Congress. Please tell your representatives to support the bill here.
Several members of Congress are also expected to re-introduce several Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) backed pro-life bills this week ahead of the March.
Over in the White House, President Trump is already delivering in his first week in office. Within hours of taking the oath of office, the “reproductiverights.gov” website was removed from the web. The federally-operated website connected women to abortion providers, but offered no assistance to life-affirming resources such as pregnancy care, abortion pill reversal information, adoption services, food assistance, etc. CWALAC is hopeful that Congress and the White House will move quickly to provide a portal connecting women with life-affirming resources.
One of the first Executive Orders President Trump signed was the Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government order, much of which followed his CWA Promise. President Trump recognized “’Female’ means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.” Notice, the order notes a basic essence of humanity, a person’s biological sex, is engrained from the moment of conception.
President Trump is also expected to pardon pro-life activists charged under the weaponization of the FACE Act, something CWALAC members have been asking for, even as we work for the full repeal of this unjust and unconstitutional law. Many also expect him to sign a host of executive actions from his previous term, including the Protecting Life and Global Health Assistance (PLGHA/“Mexico City Policy”) that protects tax-payer dollars from funding or promoting abortion internationally. These actions and more could happen within the week.
One of the President’s very first cabinet officials to take the oath, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, comes from a rich history of pro-life advocacy during his time in the U.S. Senate and is expected to continue defending his convictions at the U.S. Department of State. Several other high-level officials yet to be confirmed have similarly promising records.
The March for Life will surely continue this momentum and send a clear message to Washington: Americans demand protection for the unborn. Come celebrate with CWA as we march for life this Friday in Washington, D.C. The pro-life movement already has several wins under its belt, but we’re just getting started!