President Donald Trump at the 2020 March for Life. His speech marked the first time a president has attended the March for Life and addressed it in person.

We are here for a very simple reason: to defend the right of every child, born and unborn, to fulfill their God-given potential.

All of us here understand an eternal truth: Every child is a precious and sacred gift from God. [applause] Together, we must protect, cherish, and defend the dignity and the sanctity of every human life.

When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God’s creation. [applause] When we hold a newborn in our arms, we know the endless love that each child brings to a family. When we watch a child grow, we see the splendor that radiates from each human soul. One life changes the world – from my family, and I can tell you, I send love, and I send great, great love – and from the first day in office, I have taken historic action to support America’s families and to protect the unborn.

And during my first week in office, I reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy and we issued a landmark pro-life rule to govern the use of Title X taxpayer funding. I notified Congress that I would veto any legislation that weakens pro-life policy or that encourages the destruction of human life.

At the United Nations, I made clear that global bureaucrats have no business attacking the sovereignty of nations that protect innocent life. Unborn children have never had a stronger defender in the White House.

We have taken decisive action to protect the religious liberty – so important – religious liberty has been under attack all over the world and frankly, very strongly attacked in our nation. You see it better than anyone. But we are stopping it. And we’re taking care of doctors, nurses, teachers, and groups like the Little Sisters of the Poor.

We are preserving faith-based adoption and to uphold our founding docuмents, we have confirmed 187 federal judges, who apply the Constitution as written, including two phenomenal supreme court justices – Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.

We are protecting pro-life students’ rights to free speech on college campuses. And if universities want federal taxpayer dollars, then they must uphold your First Amendment right to speak your mind. And if they don’t, they pay a very big financial penalty, which they will not be willing to pay.

Sadly, the far left is working to erase our God-given rights, shut down faith-based charities, ban religious leaders from the public square, and silence Americans who believe in the sanctity of life. They are coming after me because I am fighting for you and we are fighting for those who have no voice.

Together, we are the voice for the voiceless. When it comes to abortion – and you know this, you’ve seen what’s happened – Democrats have embraced the most radical and extreme positions taken and seen in this country for years and decades, and you can even say, for centuries.

Nearly every top Democrat in congress now supports taxpayer-funded abortion all the way up until the moment of birth. Last year, lawmakers in New York cheered with delight upon the passage of legislation that would allow a baby to be ripped from the mother’s womb right up until delivery.

Then, we had the case of the Democrat governor in the state of Virginia, the commonwealth of Virginia. And we love the commonwealth of Virginia, but what is going on in Virginia? What is going on? The governor stated that he would execute a baby after birth. You remember that.

Senate Democrats even blocked legislation that would give medical care to babies who survive attempted abortions. And that’s why I’ve called on Congress – two of our great senators here, so many of our congressmen here – I called upon them to defend the dignity of life and to pass legislation prohibiting late-term abortion of children who can feel pain in their mother’s womb. [applause]

We cannot know what our citizens yet unborn will achieve. The dreams they will imagine. The masterpieces they will create. The discoveries they will make. But we know this: every life brings love into this world. Every child brings joy to a family. Every person is worth protecting.

And above all, we know that every human soul is divine and every human life, born and unborn, is made in the holy image of Almighty God.

There is only one purpose for abortion—ending the life of the child. The “life of the mother” situation for abortion is simply bogus.

OK. Note that I said a "procedure intending to preserve the life of the mother... so long as the death of the baby is not the intended goal or means".

We're going to get somebody for the presidency in November 2020 no matter what happens, that's a given.  Why would you not try to make things somewhat better by voting for the lesser of the two evils.  It's not a perfect world, and we will never get anybody who is not flawed in some way, some much worse than others, but we still have a duty, in my opinion to continue to try.   

I can't understand how a traditional Catholic could down vote what you said.

Well, I think it was due to the condescending and derogatory tone towards those who do do not feel they can vote for Trump in good conscience.  There are some very serious considerations against voting for Trump, and she dismisses them with condescension.

… it was due to the condescending and derogatory tone towards those who do do not feel they can vote for Trump in good conscience. There are some very serious considerations against voting for Trump, and she dismisses them with condescension.

That the underscored sentence above has thus far prompted four down-votes demonstrates the strength of the curious belief that a person can make an unpleasant reality disappear by simply saying "I don't like you for saying that" to a bringer of bad news, especially when the bad news is also plainly true. In the interest of affirming the importance of acknowledging objective reality, I have voted the comment up.

Thank you and God bless those of you speaking catholic common sense on this thread. I honestly cannot believe that any catholic can justify not voting this year...it blows my mind. We all know Trump is far from ideal but I dont think any of you sweet summer children have a clue what is in store for this country if Biden wins.....

To be an arrogant, imperious virago about this subject is one thing, but to quote from trash like A Game of Thrones while doing so is an especially unkind cut.

At least move a few notches up the literary allusions ladder and hit us with some Barbara Cartland gems next time.