President Donald Trump will address the annual March for Life demonstration on the National Mall via video, the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America told reporters Thursday.
“This pro-life president is going nowhere,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, the group’s president, said.
The White House confirmed Trump’s remote appearance, which will happen around 4:30 p.m. on Friday.
March for Life also announced on Thursday that Vice President JD Vance will address the event in person, saying in a statement that it was “a sign of his commitment to standing up for life.”
The group’s outgoing and incoming presidents — Jeanne Mancini and Jennie Bradley Lichter — said they look forward to working with the new administration “as they dismantle the Biden Administration’s aggressive and unpopular abortion agenda and once again put wins on the board for vulnerable unborn children and their mothers.”
Yet the announcements also come amid mounting frustration from the anti-abortion movement that not one of the avalanche of executive orders Trump signed over his first few days in office has pertained directly to abortion. While abortion opponents have praised some of the early orders — such as the withdrawal from the World Health Organization because of the international body’s record of support for abortion access — they are upset that Trump has not yet signed anti-abortion restrictions on domestic and international funding.
