Overview
- At the 53rd March for Life, Vice President JD Vance acknowledged frustrations, urged unity, and promised the movement has an ally in the White House, saying more progress will come over the next three years.
- The administration highlighted new steps: a broadened Mexico City Policy restricting foreign aid to groups that promote or provide abortions, a reinstated NIH ban on research using aborted fetal tissue, and an SBA review of about $88 million in Planned Parenthood PPP loans, with letters sent to 38 affiliates.
- Anti-abortion leaders criticized the lack of stronger federal action on mifepristone and objected to President Trump's call for Republicans to be "flexible on Hyde," pressing for firm protections against federal abortion funding.
- FDA and HHS leaders have pledged a safety review of mifepristone, but the FDA also approved a generic version last fall, intensifying calls from advocates to restrict mail-order dispensing or remove the drug from the market.
- Tens of thousands gathered on the National Mall before marching to the Supreme Court, and President Trump, in a recorded message, credited his judicial appointments for Dobbs and asserted the administration has made unprecedented strides to protect life.