EXCLUSIVE — Vice President JD Vance told the Washington Examiner the anti-abortion movement needs to “be realistic” about what is achievable in the national political environment and organize on getting wins at the state level.
Vance, who is the headline speaker at Friday’s March for Life in Washington, sat for a lengthy interview with the Washington Examiner on Thursday. During the interview, Vance said he knew there were “a lot of pro-life activists who wish that more would happen, who wish that more progress had been made.”
“I think that we have to accept that part of what we need to do is persuade our fellow Americans in order to achieve pro-life victories,” Vance said.
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“Most of what’s going to happen over the next generation of the pro-life movement is we’re going to have to win victories at the state level,” the vice president added. “I think we can do that. I think we should organize and mobilize for that. But I think we have to be realistic with ourselves that, right now, the American people are not endorsing a lot of pro-life policy.”
Vance said that was a “terrible tragedy” but that it also meant the anti-abortion movement had to act strategically.
“I’m focused on changing it, and I think that’s what we have to think, ‘How do we win?’” the vice president said. “The pro-life movement goes nowhere if we make really good arguments that lose at the ballot box. We’ve got to figure out how to win.”
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Vance argued that President Donald Trump has been “the most successfully pro-life president in American history.” He noted that the administration has continued the Mexico City policy, which bars federal funding for international nongovernmental organizations that conduct abortions.
Ahead of the March for Life, the Trump administration announced that funding from the National Institutes of Health will no longer go toward research or grants that use aborted fetal tissue. The Small Business Administration also announced it will review whether Planned Parenthood illegally received $88 million in pandemic-era loans.
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