President Donald J. Trump has worked to defend innocent human life, a priority he embraced as a presidential candidate when he stated on January 23, 2016, “Let me be clear — I am pro-life.”

Presidential Pro-Life Statements

“I believe it is the most basic duty of government to guard the innocent. With that in mind, I will veto any legislation that weakens current pro-life Federal policies and laws, or that encourages the destruction of innocent human life at any stage.”

Letter to the Speaker of the House of Representatives- January 18, 2019

“On this day, National Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, we mourn the lives cut short, and the tremendous promise lost, as a result of abortion. As a Nation, we must resolve to protect innocent human life at every stage.  As President, I am committed to defending the Right to Life.

“My Administration has repeatedly demonstrated its respect for human life and conscience at all stages. … Today, we recommit ourselves to protecting innocent life every day and at every stage.”

Proclamation 9838 of January 18, 2019- National Sanctity of Human Life Day, 2019

Pro-Life and Conscience Accomplishments

• Reinstated the Mexico City Policy to end Federal funding of foreign non-governmental organizations providing family planning abroad if they perform or actively promote abortion as a method of family planning.
• Expanded the Mexico City Policy to more than $8 billion in global health assistance provided by all Federal departments and agencies.
• Nominated 150 Federal judges confirmed by the Senate who will uphold the United States Constitution, including two Associate Justices of the Supreme Court.
• Wrote Congress in support of the following pro-life bills:
  • No-Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2019.
  • Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.
  • Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.
• Published a regulation to prevent the commingling of taxpayer dollars funding the Title X family planning program with projects that perform, promote, or refer for abortion as a method of family planning.
• Allowed Title X family planning grantees to exclude, as subrecipients, organizations that perform or promote abortions.
• Funded 16 new organizations as Title X grantees, including State health departments, faith-based organizations, and several community health centers.
• Allowed State Medicaid directors more flexibility to set qualification standards for Medicaid providers, including requirements that may exclude abortion providers from the Medicaid program.
• Ended HHS funding for new medical research using human fetal tissue obtained from elective abortions, unless authorized by an ethics advisory board.
• Reissued guidance, Interaction of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) and the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002, that hospitals may be required to screen, stabilize, and treat or transfer “every infant who is born alive, at any stage of development” including those born alive after abortions.
• Issued guidance to clarify that a hardship exemption from the Obamacare individual mandate is available if all affordable plans offered through the Federal exchanges in an individual’s area include abortion coverage, contrary to one’s beliefs.
• Issued final rules protecting religious orders, pro-life organizations, and other organizations and individuals that have religious or moral objections to providing coverage for contraceptives, including those they believe cause early abortions, in their health insurance plans.
• Proposed regulations on Obamacare to protect life and conscience, including:
• Requiring Obamacare insurers to issue separate invoices for insurance coverage of abortions.
• Requiring Obamacare insurers with plans covering abortions to offer at least one identical plan in the same geographic area that does not cover abortions. (The rule would not apply in States with mandated abortion coverage.)
• Reversing Obama Administration’s efforts to force recipients of certain Federal funding to provide or pay for abortions.
• Provided guidance to Federal departments and agencies on Federal Law Protections for Religious Liberty.
• Created the Conscience and Religious Freedom Division within the HHS Office for Civil Rights, which:
• Issued a final rule to strengthen enforcement of Federal laws protecting the conscience rights of healthcare workers and entities; and
• Enforced Federal laws protecting conscience rights against laws adopted by the States of California and Hawaii that had required pro-life pregnancy resource centers to refer clients for abortions.
• Opposes efforts at the United Nations to make abortion an international human right.
• Advocates for the protection of women and children, born and unborn, as a global health priority, including by building a coalition of countries representing over one billion inhabitants.

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