Last Friday, tens of thousands of Americans of every age, creed, and kind marched down Constitution Avenue towards the nation’s capital with one, united purpose: to be a voice for the voiceless in a broken world that considers the unborn disposable.
Vice President JD Vance headlined the March for Life rally with bold remarks: “The mark of barbarism is that we treat babies like inconveniences to be discarded rather than the blessings to cherish that they are, but the inheritance of our civilization is something else—the fact that, as Scripture tells us, each life is fearfully and wonderfully made by our Creator.” The President addressed the March with a video message, saying, “Every human being is endowed by God with the right to life.”
With attendees ranging from pro-life leaders to high schoolers with homemade posters, this year’s march was marked by two key affirmations: first, a celebration of the past year’s pro-life wins, and second, a confident acknowledgement of hard work yet to be done.
Just one year into the Trump Administration, the pro-life movement has secured a number of victories with support from the White House:
- In July 2025, the President signed the Working Families Tax Cut (One Big Beautiful Bill Act) into law, defunding Big Abortion Businesses like Planned Parenthood of hard-earned taxpayer dollars for the first time in United States history. Over fifty Planned Parenthood clinics have since closed.
- In December 2025, the Department of Veterans Affairs finalized a rule to reinstate the lawful exclusion of abortions and abortion referrals in veteran healthcare programs. This decisive move reversed three years of illegal, forced taxpayer funding of abortions at the Department of Veterans Affairs and followed Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee’s comment in support of the proposed rule.
- Last week, just a day before the March for Life, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it ended the use of aborted fetal tissue in NIH-backed research. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said, “Under President Trump’s leadership, taxpayer-funded research must reflect the best science of today and the values of the American people.” This move not only affirms the dignity of unborn human life and demands that deceased unborn children be handled with care and respect, it reflects that modern science no longer demands fetal tissue research. The move will also devastate Big Abortion businesses that sell fetal remains for profit.
- The NIH also announced that it is seeking to halt federally funded human embryonic stem cell research, citing both ethical concerns and scientific evidence, concluding that the practice is unacceptable and unreliable. As the NIH reviews the inefficiency of embryonic stem cell research, it has paused all applications to the Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry. This seemingly small move is a huge win—human embryos are persons made in the image of God, worthy of life, and owed the privilege of growth, development, and birth. They are not science experiments.
- On January 22, the Small Business Administration opened investigations into $88 million dollars’ worth of Biden-era Planned Parenthood COVID relief funding, sending over forty letters to Planned Parenthood affiliates demanding financial records and proof of eligibility for the Biden checks. If those demands are not met, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. will be required to return the funds or face criminal penalties.
- Also on January 22, the State Department expanded and finalized the Mexico City policy, ensuring that American taxpayer dollars will not fund abortion services overseas. That same day, the Department of Health and Human Services sent a Notice of Violation to the State of Illinois for noncompliance with federal conscience protections under the Weldon and Coats-Snowe Amendments. Illinois has refused healthcare providers and doctors their right to abstain from abortion services and referrals, and HHS is holding the state accountable for their violation.
Concerned Women for America (CWA) celebrates these historic wins and applauds the President and Vice President for their vocal support of the pro-life movement—we celebrated each hard-fought win at the March for Life.
With the momentum we’ve gained, CWA looks forward to working with the Trump Administration to tackle the next frontier in the fight for life: the abortion drug crisis.
Since 2000, the FDA has abandoned common-sense safety measures in regulating the abortion drug Mifepristone. Under the guise of COVID relief, President Biden’s FDA hacked away at the last of the FDA’s in person dispensing requirements, and Mifepristone is now available on demand to the general public without a doctor consultation, ultrasound, notification of risk, adverse event reporting, or follow-up care.
Besides always killing a child, the chemical abortion drug is proven to be a threat to women’s health and safety: 11% of women experience a serious adverse medical event—like severe hemorrhaging or sepsis—after taking Mifepristone for a DIY abortion. Drug-induced abortions are the riskiest kind of abortion with a complication rate four times higher than surgical abortions. Women aren’t being informed of these risks. The Biden FDA set up women to die by DIY abortion, and that lapse in regulation still stands.
As it stands, the market for Mifepristone is riddled with waste, fraud, and abuse from every angle: 1) Foreign abortion drugs, some laced with fentanyl, are pouring across U.S. borders unregulated, 2) Mifepristone is responsible for greater than 60% of abortions in the United States and continues to increase abortion rates in pro-life states like Texas and Tennessee, 3) Minors are ordering and receiving unlabeled abortion drugs in the mail without parental consent, drugs labels, or instructions for self-administration, and 4) Sex traffickers and abusers are using the drug to cover their crimes with zero accountability.
On the heels of a year full of pro-life wins and a successful March for Life, President Trump and the Food and Drug Administration have an incredible opportunity to end the waste, fraud, and abuse fueling the abortion drug crisis initiated by Presidents Clinton, Obama, and Biden. This White House is positioned to build on its legacy for life, delivering a resounding pro-life, pro-family, pro-woman win with one move: removing dangerous abortion drugs from the market and the mail.
