President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance spoke to tens of thousands of pro-life marchers at the 52nd March for Life held Friday at the National Mall, Washington, D.C.
Trump, speaking by prerecorded video from the Oval Office, thanked the marchers for “turning out to show your extraordinary love and compassion for the unborn,” a livestream of the event shows. He said he was “proud to be the first president ever to have joined you in person.”
He described the now-overturned Roe v. Wade — a Supreme Court decision declaring abortion to be a constitutional right — as a “disastrous ruling” and an “unconstitutional decision” that “took power away from the states and the voters, kicking off 50 years of division and anger.”
The Supreme Court made the ruling in 1973, a year before the March for Life organizers staged their first march. Trump laid the…
