Trump’s Pro-Lifer Pardon Alone Makes Voting For Him Worth It

A mere four days into his second term, President Donald Trump made every single pro-lifers’ vote for him worth it by pardoning 23 people the Biden administration targeted for their peaceful opposition to abortion.

Trump’s Thursday afternoon executive order effectively nullified the Biden administration’s attempt to weaponize itself against mostly Christian activists who spent their time praying, worshipping, and evangelizing at abortion facilities across the nation. It also proved that all of the moaning, groaning, and grandstanding from “principled” pro-lifers about Trump betraying their base was completely unfounded and unwarranted.

It is true that Trump’s personal position on abortion is, at best, ambiguous. It was his mixed messaging on life in the womb that earned him the ire of several high-profile pro-life advocates and organizations ahead of the 2024 election. Some threatened to commit political suicide by withholding votes from Trump, while others twisted themselves in knots to justify siding with the most extreme candidate on abortion this country has ever seen.

The coordinated campaign from conservatives who care about life in the womb to punish Trump was astounding considering the alternative. A nation with Kamala Harris instead of Trump at the helm would have not only guaranteed full prison time for people like Lauren Handy and Paulette Harlow, but promised partisan prosecutions of other pro-lifers for years to come.

A potential Harris administration boasted unlimited, on-demand abortion as a nonnegotiable and vowed lawfare against any and all protections for women and babies. The Trump administration, on the other hand, showed and still shows nothing but political and cultural promise for the pro-life movement.

Despite the shortcomings in his abortion agenda, Trump is undeniably the most successful pro-life president in history. In his first term, he did what no Republican in Congress or the White House could do by becoming the strongest, most effective ally of the pro-life movement in 50 years.

With one stroke of the pen on the first week of his second term, he made history again. If the self-professed pro-life Republicans running Congress finally decide to bring U.S. code up to speed with voters’ belief about ending life in the womb, Trump could easily add the privilege of signing more protections for women and babies into law and repealing the FACE Act to his list of accomplishments.

For Trump, delivering the wins to the pro-life movement is not just a duty to the voters who helped sustain his re-election, but a “great honor” that vindicates everyone who accurately recognized his potential as a vessel for the fight to protect unborn babies from the start.

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.