John,
Many of us are excited and hopeful to see change in Washington this year, and we expect Republicans to accomplish the job we elected them to do: save preborn babies.
President Trump’s victory in 2024 was huge, but it will only matter if we all put in the work in 2025 to restore America’s values and rescue children.
President Trump earned an incredible Pro-Life record in his first term, but later pledged to veto a national abortion ban on the 2024 campaign trail. Still, Trump has the opportunity to use his position starting today to protect babies from abortion.
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Here are five Pro-Life things Trump can do in his presidency:
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1. Defund Overseas Abortions
- In 2017, the Trump administration blocked roughly $9 billion in federal funding for abortions globally.
- Biden rescinded the Mexico City Policy in 2021, giving tax dollars to international organizations that kill preborn babies.
- Every Republican president supported the Mexico City Policy since its inception in the Regan administration.
- Restoring this measure will protect Americans from funding abortions abroad.
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2. Defund Planned Parenthood
- Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion business in the country, killing 392,715 children from 2022-2023. That’s 1,076 lives ended per day.
- It received nearly $700 million in taxpayer money that same year.
- President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could target the abortion group.
- DOGE chiefs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “…DOGE will help end federal overspending by taking aim at the $500 billion plus in annual federal expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress or being used in ways that Congress never intended... [including] nearly $300 million to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood.”
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3. Restore Abortion Pill Regulations
- Democrat presidents abused the Food and Drug Administration to expand abortion since 2000.
- Bill Clinton first instructed the FDA to skip its normal safety screenings in order to approve the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol to cause abortions. President Obama's FDA extended the use of abortion pills later in pregnancy, from seven weeks to 10 weeks, despite the increased risk of complications. In 2021, the Biden-led FDA removed the requirement for pregnant women to visit a doctor in person, authorizing mail-order abortions.
- President Trump could direct the FDA to restore safeguards on mifepristone or even urge the agency to revoke its approval of the abortion drug entirely.
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4. Release Imprisoned Pro-Life Activists
- Joe Biden’s presidency has been marred by the weaponization of the justice system against political opponents.
- Among the ugliest examples is the arrest of 12 Pro-Life activists, sentenced to 11 years in prison for protesting at abortion clinics.
- Trump has the authority to pardon these Pro-Life advocates.
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5. Undo Biden’s Extensive Abortion Policies
- Biden sought unprecedented methods to increase abortions after Roe.
- He authorized Veterans Affairs hospitals to commit abortions, instructed the Office of Refugee Resettlement to pay for abortions and travel expenses for detained immigrants, and attempted to hold Medicaid funds hostage from emergency rooms if they didn’t kill preborn babies.
- Trump can reverse these policies.
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However, Washington D.C.’s most long-term way to save babies from abortion is to pass federal legislation. Trump should work with Congress to establish national protections for unborn children.
Anti-Life activists have spent the past four years relentlessly working to undo Pro-Life policies, target Christians, and endanger preborn babies and pregnant women. Yet, these next four years have incredible potential. If President Trump makes the Pro-Life cause a top priority, we could see countless children saved for generations to come.
Will you join me in praying that the Trump administration will receive increased conviction to prioritize Life?
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