Last Updated on February 3, 2025
Former Vice President Mike Pence is exploiting the pro-life movement, “Pro-Life Inc.,” in order to derail Robert F. Kennedy’s candidacy for Secretary of Health and Human Services, according to former Trump advisor and talk show host Roger Stone.
Pence is using pro-life ideology “as a smokescreen to protect Big Pharma and Big Ag,” and in fact, “founded Advancing American Freedom for the purposes of torpedoing RFK Jr’s nomination to the HHS,” Stone contends in an op-ed published on his website Monday.
As Stone highlights, AAF chief Tim Chapman and AAF Board Chairman Marc Short penned a letter to persuade Republican senators to shut down Kennedy’s nomination, claiming Kennedy is indifferent to protecting the unborn.
“There are hundreds of decisions made every day at HHS that either lead our nation toward a respect for life or away from it—decisions about federal funding for Planned Parenthood, regulations on the abortion pill (currently accounting for three out of every five abortions), insurance coverage of abortion, and more,” Chapman and Short wrote. “Whatever the merits of RFK Jr’s Make America Healthy Again initiative—indeed, whatever other qualities a nominee might possess—an HHS Secretary must have a firm commitment to protect unborn children, or else bend under the pressure and pushback surrounding these daily, critical decisions.”
Pro-life Inc. has also notoriously coordinated to “undermine President Trump through his presidential campaign,” Stone contends.
“Just last year, Pro-Life Inc. undermined President Trump throughout his presidential campaign. Lobbyist Lila Rose had the audacity to call Trump/Vance a “pro-abortion ticket” during a crucial period in the 2024 election cycle,” the longtime GOP operative notes. “In backlash to her anti-Trump rhetoric, Rose was widely ridiculed as a grifter on X by patriots who noted that her non-profit organization Live Profit was spending millions on garish dinners and salaries while giving very little to actual pro-life advocacy. She would finally endorse Trump for president shortly before the election when it was clear he would defeat Harris.”
On day one of taking office, Trump pardoned pro-life activists who were imprisoned by Joe Biden’s weaponized Justice Department for protesting at abortion clinics.
The DOJ exploited the FACE Act, legislation enacted in the 1990s to increase penalties for individuals who obstructed access to abortion clinics, to bring charges against more than 30 people who partook in pro-life demonstrations. The lengthiest sentence of the pro-life defendants was handed to Lauren Handy, who was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison for protesting at an abortion clinic in Washington, DC.
🚨 BREAKING: President Donald J. Trump grants pardons to peaceful pro-life protesters prosecuted by the Biden administration over exercising their First Amendment rights. pic.twitter.com/XwzU4dEJt8
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) January 23, 2025
“If President Trump had listened to these voices, he may not have been in office to pardon 23 anti-abortion activists who were thrown in prison for exercising their conscience,” Stone argues. “The Republicans would be a permanent minority party, unable to legislate or change the laws of the nation, and that is perhaps the preferred outcome for Pro-Life Inc. Trump’s tangible victories, including the repeal of Roe v. Wade, have jeopardized the Pro-Life Inc. grift, which depends on their followers believing that reform is just out of grasp.”
Last week, Pence posted a compilation of clips of Trump disparaging RFK Jr. on the campaign trail, when RFK was seeking the Democrat nomination.
“President Trump was right the first time… Senators, Vote No on RFK. Jr.,” the turncoat Republican captioned the video.
President Trump was right the first time…Senators, Vote No on RFK,Jr. pic.twitter.com/Yc179VZG1N
— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) January 29, 2025
The video was posted on the eve of RFK Jr.’s first confirmation hearing Wednesday, during which Democrat lawmakers badgered the Trump nominee about his past comments.
Pence struggled to gain any traction in his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, proving unable to distinguish himself as a serious contender despite his name recognition. The former VP failed to garner more than single-digit support in polls.
