Trump’s First Week Back: Pro-Life Progress or Political Theater?

In his first week back in office, President Donald Trump executed a flurry of pro-life actions that seems to have sent waves of applause through conservative circles. Scrapping Biden’s pro-abortion website? Check. Defunding International Planned Parenthood? Done.

Enforcing the Hyde Amendment, stopping lawfare against pro-life Americans, and endorsing the Born Alive bill to protect abortion survivors? He ticked every box. He even went so far as to sign the Geneva Declaration affirming that there is no international right to abortion.

But perhaps most surprisingly, Trump signed an executive order that states that human life begins at conception. A bold move, indeed. But here’s the million-dollar question, if Trump believes this—and I mean truly believes this—will he follow through with measures that reflect the gravity of such a declaration? Or is this yet another chapter in the book of political theater, long on rhetoric and short on conviction?

The affirmation that life begins at conception is not a neutral stance—it is an unequivocal declaration of war against the culture of death. And it is also a statement that demands policy shaped around the inherent value of every human life, born and unborn.

Sadly, Trump’s campaign position on abortion reveals a troubling penchant for compromise. He campaigned on not banning abortion before 15 weeks, and of course, only with exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother.