Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday touted President Trump as the “most pro-life president in American history” and warned supporters that Joe Biden “would undo all the progress that we’ve made in the cause of life” if elected.
Speaking to pro-life supporters at Starkey Road Baptist Church in Seminole, Fla., Pence said “life is winning in America.”
“From the first day he took office, President Trump has been standing without apology for the sanctity of human life,” Pence said.
The speech was part of a multi-state “Life Wins” tour with Susan B. Anthony List leaders. Pence also visited a crisis pregnancy center, A Woman’s Place.
Pence listed pro-life accomplishments of the administration:
- reinstituting the Mexico City policy, “making sure no taxpayer dollars would ever go to promote or provide abortion around the world.”
- appointing “200 conservative judges” to the federal courts. Pence said Trump had appointed “more conservatives to our courts of appeals than any president in American history.”
- taking executive action to defend Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious organizations from the Obama-era’s abortion/contraceptive mandate.
- signing a bill into law that lets states defund Planned Parenthood. Pence cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate.
- Trump becoming the first president to attend and address, in-person, the March for Life on the National Mall.
“By contrast, Joe Biden and the Democratic Party would take America in the opposite direction,” Pence said.
Pence referenced Biden’s opposition to the Hyde Amendment, a congressional provision dating to 1980 that prohibits taxpayer funding of abortion. Historically, it drew bipartisan support.
“Joe Biden and the Democratic Party have literally abandoned their support for the Hyde Amendment and have pledged to use taxpayer dollars to fund abortion at home and abroad,” Pence said.
“Joe Biden and the Democratic Party … plan to increase funding for Planned Parenthood at unprecedented levels,” Pence said. “And Joe Biden and the Democratic Party support late-term abortion. His party, in the Senate, actually blocked a bill that would protect children that were born after failed abortions. They blocked the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act.”
Biden also would “appoint activist judges to our courts who would legislate from the bench and trample … on our most cherished liberties,” Pence said.
“The choice could not be more clear,” Pence said. “And I want to make you a promise: This president, this vice president, and this administration will always stand up for the freedom of speech of every American, and we will always stand for life. As the Bible admonishes us, we are to – and I quote – ‘speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves.’ And so the people in this movement have done every day since that day 47 years ago.
“… And because you’ve spoken up, because you stood up, because you’ve stood with those men and women who’ve stood for life in the public square: Life is winning in America.”
Pence said “life is winning” at least 11 times during his speech. Young Americans, he said, “are embracing the sanctity of life in record numbers.” He also called Trump “the most pro-life president in American history.”
“This president and I will stand for life. We’ll stand with women in crisis pregnancies,” Pence said. “And we’ll continue to deliver on the promises that we’ve made not just to the people of a movement or a cause, but to the highest ideals of our nation, including the unalienable right to life.”
Pence closed by quoting Scripture.
“He who said, ‘Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you,’ fights with you,” Pence said, referencing Jeremiah 1:5. “And when we make the cause of the author of life our cause, we make His work on this Earth our own, and that means life wins.” Christian Headline News
The following is from Pro Life Across America
- 18 days from conception, heart begins to beat, with the baby’s own blood.
- 28 days from conception a baby has eyes, ears, and even a tongue!
- 28 days from conception: Muscles are developing along the future spine. Arms and legs are budding.
- 30 days: Child has grown 10,000 times to 6-7mm (1/4”) long. Brain has human proportions. Blood flows in veins.
- 42 days: Skeleton is formed. Brain coordinates movement of muscles and organs. Reflex responses have begun.
- 42 days: Brain waves can be detected, the jaw forms, including teeth and taste buds. The unborn baby begins to swallow amniotic fluid. Fingers and toes are developing.
- 45 days from conception: The unborn baby is making body movements, a full 12 weeks before the mother may notice such stirrings. By seven weeks the chest and abdomen are fully formed. Swimming with a natural swimmer’s stroke in the amniotic fluid, the baby now looks like a miniature human infant.
- 44-45 days: Buds of milk teeth appear, and the unborn baby’s facial muscles develop. Eyelids begin to form, protecting the developing eyes. Elbows take shape. Internal organs are present, but immature. 99% of muscles are present, each with its own nerve supply.
- 52 Days: Spontaneous movement begins. The unborn baby then develops a whole collection of moves over the next 4 weeks including hiccuping, frowning, squinting, furrowing the brow, pursing the lips, moving individual arms and legs, head turning, touching his/her face, breathing (without air), stretching, opening the mouth, yawning and sucking. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. Psalms 139:14-16
