Former vice president Mike Pence on Wednesday rolled out a comprehensive anti-abortion policy agenda that seeks to criminalize the practice in every state and strengthen federal adoption laws — a blueprint likely to color the 2024 election.
“The tide has turned in this nation,” Pence said in his first public remarks since a June 24 Supreme Court ruling that sent abortion laws back to the states. “Many more are with us than are with them, don’t ever doubt it. Life is winning in America.”
His venue was the 1,800-person Florence Baptist Temple, which was filled to near capacity for the 30-minute speech where Pence called for an end to elective abortions, ban on corporations paying for workers to get the procedure in states where they’re allowed and creation of a federal task force to “investigate, prosecute and arrest” people who vandalize pregnancy crisis centers.
