He is the first president to address the annual rally against abortion rights in person, according to the event's organizers.
On Friday, Trump stuck mostly to prepared remarks, touting himself as a champion for “religious liberty,” listingand praising himself for espousing conservative beliefs.
He commented on the “tremendous turnout” of the “thousands and thousands” of attendees, praising them for leading “the pro-family, pro-life nation.” , Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said she hopes abortion will become “unconstitutional” and “unthinkable,” and compared conservatives’ fight to restrict abortion access with President Abraham Lincoln’s efforts to abolish slavery.Lincoln “contended with the pro-choice arguments of his day. They suggested that a state’s choice to be slave or to be free had no moral question in it,” DeVos said.
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