WASHINGTON, D.C. – Pro-life advocates may have faced political setbacks across the country since Roe v. Wade was overturned, effectively granting states the ability to regulate abortion.

As thousands gathered in the snow Friday on the National Mall ahead of the march around the Capitol to the Supreme Court, many called for a continued expansion of the pro-life cause to include policies and programs to help mothers and families, not just work on legal battles.

‘It’s important that we not just combat the harm of abortion that it’s causing our patients, but also recognize why women are oftentimes seeking abortion and do something about that,’ Christina Francis, CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG), told Fox News Digital on the sidelines of the March for Life Friday.

But some pro-life activists in the health profession told Fox News Digital they see other wins since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson overturned nearly 50 years of Roe precedent. Doctors and medical professionals are rejecting messages from advocates for abortion.

‘We definitely have seen a growth in our membership in the last two years, especially right after Dobbs. We had a huge increase in membership,’ Francis said.

AAPLOG’s medical student and resident fellowships increased from about 200 to around 400 since the 2022 Dobbs decision, and total membership increased from 7,000 to around 7,500. In the past decade, the group tripled in total membership.

Some new members join AAPLOG due to feeling left behind by the pro-choice stances of the major medical institutions, according to Francis.

‘What they’re realizing now is that we are under active attack, I would say … not just from pro-abortion advocates, but from our major certifying bodies,’ Francis said.

‘Many of them are seeing the veil has been lifted, I think, on the true position of some of our major medical associations.’

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), according to Francis, has acted inconsistently with many OB/GYNs’ beliefs about providing quality health care.

In August 2023, ACOG Interim President Christopher Zahn wrote in a letter to The Washington Post expressing the belief abortion access should not be limited. 

‘Abortion is safe. It improves and saves lives, and it must be available without restrictions, without limitations and without barriers — just as any other critical part of health care,’ Zahn wrote. 

‘I think that many physicians are seeing now how radical that position is,’ said Francis. ‘Maybe they’re not exactly in the same position I am on abortion, but they recognize that there should at the very least be some limitation, and there should be safeguards put into place for women’s safety and to ensure that they’re in good care. We really are seeing a lot of physicians and other medical professionals wake up to what’s been going on in our profession for quite some time.’

ACOG last year released a fact sheet that dismissed as misinformation some pro-life terms — particularly the claims that abortion defenders want abortion to be legal to the point of birth. 

”[A]bortion up until birth’ or ‘abortion after birth’ are examples of derogatory language used by opponents of abortion access that is not based in facts. Neither is accurate, and neither uses clinically appropriate language,’ ACOG’s website states.

ACOG also says abortion later in pregnancy is rare and indicates that ‘something has gone terribly wrong regarding the patient’s health or the pregnancy.’

Viewing abortion as something involving a single patient, according to Francis, is one of the issues driving medical practitioners to question the major health groups that insist abortion is health care.

‘We know that induced abortion is not health care. It ends the life of one of our patients, and it significantly harms our other patients,’ said Francis. 

‘They need to point out the extreme, radical nature of what [Democrats] will do if they get into office and have the majorities in the House, Senate and the White House. It’ll be abortion until birth. In debates, when facing down your Democratic opponent, make him or her defend that.’

— Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J.

‘This abortion fight is it’s not just Planned Parenthood clinics and the pregnancy centers, it is in health care today,’ said Chris Faddis, president of Solidarity HealthShare. 

‘The health care system is pushing people more and more towards early fetal testing, so they can push people to abortions and their children into, you know, Planned Parenthood for regular female care, so they can get them on birth control and a board of patients and those things,’ Faddis said.

Concerned Women for America President Penny Nance told Fox News Digital a priority for the pro-life movement must be expanding ways for struggling pregnant women and mothers to get assistance, be it public or private.

‘We know the No. 1 reason a woman chooses abortion is that she isn’t supported,’ said Nance.

One proposal is a national clearinghouse where a pregnant woman can search her zip code for resources near her — not just medical, but financial assistance, help with bills and food or employment. The idea is similar to a program in Mississippi that launched in the past year to collect public assistance and nonprofits into one searchable database.

March for Life has also been a political advocacy group, and in light of recent setbacks at the ballot box for abortion issues, pro-lifers have urged pro-life politicians not to avoid the issue, but to put Democrats on the defensive.

‘They need to point out the extreme, radical nature of what [Democrats] will do if they get into office and have the majorities in the House, Senate and the White House. It’ll be abortion until birth. In debates, when facing down your Democratic opponent, make him or her defend that,’ said Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J.

The Biden administration’s policy of trying to play friendly with China has yielded few material gains, and the U.S. has failed to capitalize upon what little concessions it has gotten, experts told Fox News Digital.

‘The one thing that we’ve got is time,’ Gordon Chang, Gatestone Institute senior fellow and China expert, explained. ‘The United States is not ready to defend itself and its allies and partners, and by appeasing China we have bought a little bit of time.

‘Biden has bought time, and the Pentagon has done nothing. It hasn’t done as much as it’s needed to do, so we have wasted time. … Apart from that, I don’t think we’ve gotten very much.

‘Clearly, the United States is no longer deterring China as we once did, so this is the time to change a policy that has worked but is no longer sufficient in today’s setting.’

President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2022 held their first face-to-face meeting since Biden took office while attending the G-20 summit in Indonesia. Last year, Xi visited the U.S. for the first time since 2018 and met with Biden in San Francisco on the sidelines of the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference. 

Xi and Biden agreed to military-to-military communications and aggressively tackle the manufacture and distribution of fentanyl, which largely originates in China and Mexico. Nearly all ‘precursor chemicals’ needed to produce fentanyl originate in China, according to The Associated Press.

Last week, Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos about the administration’s progress with China.

‘The United States is competing with China across multiple dimensions, and we make no bones about that. But we are not looking for confrontation or conflict. And we are seeking to manage that competition responsibly, intensifying diplomacy to reduce the risk of miscalculation,’ Sullivan said.

Sullivan also highlighted the recent meeting between the two leaders and noted the resumption of military-to-military communications, claiming the move was ‘good for our relationship but also for regional and global stability. It will help reduce the risk of unintended conflict.’

Yet critics like Chang harbor major criticism of the Biden administration for not taking action in response to the many deaths from COVID-19 and fentanyl, both originating in China. Over 1.1 million Americans died from the pandemic, according to numbers published in April 2023, and over 73,000 Americans died from fentanyl overdoses in the U.S. in 2022.

‘To me, it’s incomprehensible that we would allow this, but we have allowed the killing of Americans in great numbers,’ Chang said. 

Critics and analysts had also expected stronger action from Biden following a tumultuous year for China-U.S. relations. The U.S. caught China sending spy crafts into sovereign American airspace, and China increased its incursions into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ). 

The Biden administration instead has spent time ramping up military drills with regional allies and strengthening ties with partners like Australia, Singapore, South Korea and Japan. 

Japan this week agreed to buy 400 U.S.-made long-range Tomahawk missiles, just one day after holding a massive naval drill with both the U.S. and South Korea in a show of force against North Korea. But China will have paid attention to such a demonstration. 

Matt McInnis, senior fellow for the Institute for the Study of War’s China program, told Fox News Digital he would hesitate to label the Biden administration’s total approach to China as one of appeasement, but he argued that the White House does show ‘too much concern about provoking China.’

‘The Biden administration has continued many of the policies of the Trump administration on China and is actually taking some strong steps in many areas with China, but I do think that inherent fear of provocation is setting us up — especially this year — for some concessions that are going to be detrimental.’ 

In addition to the spy balloon incident and a lack of significant U.S. response, the U.S. has not managed to convince China to curb North Korea, which continues to make greater and greater shows of force as the hermit kingdom’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un seeks to establish his country as a legitimate world power. 

Chang argued that the soft touch with China has allowed the international system to break down as ‘bad actors now feel they can do what they want.’ He cited the escalating tensions last week between Iran and Pakistan as an example. 

Chang criticized the Biden administration’s policy of ‘strategic ambiguity,’ which administration spokespeople have cited in a variety of responses regarding America’s approach to China. 

‘Strategic ambiguity’ sees America oscillating between clear support for the One China Policy, which necessitates opposition to Taiwan’s independence, even as the Pentagon continues to arm Taiwan and prepare it for possible invasion.

Both China and North Korea have provided backdoor support for Russia, with North Korea providing basic munitions in a bid to obtain more advanced weapons from Moscow. China reiterated support for Russia after the failed Wagner mercenary rebellion against the Russian Ministry of Defense over disagreements regarding progress in Ukraine. 

China has also only emboldened Iran, which has continued to push its proxies in the Middle East and fund their attacks against American military assets and allies in the region.

While the Iran-backed Houthis double down on their attacks against international commercial ships in the Red Sea, China looks to fold Iran into the BRICS economic bloc and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. 

‘The more we restrict ourselves, that is going to set new norms that China can exploit and pressure us,’ McInnis said. ‘We end up deterring ourselves and not getting much in return for it.’

Former President Trump joked about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ‘short circuit[ing]’ during a tense interview on ‘Your World’ Friday.

‘Ron DeSanctimonious short circuits when confronted with the fact he didn’t win a single county in Iowa,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social. 

The former president posted an interview that Fox News host Neil Cavuto conducted with DeSantis.

‘You look at Iowa. Um, you know, we did it, right?’ DeSantis said during the program. ‘I mean, we got the endorsement of the governor. We won the debates, the Miami debate, the Newsom debate, the NewsNation debate, the CNN debate. We did televised town halls, you know, got a great response.’

‘But you didn’t win a single county, right?’ Cavuto responded. ‘I mean… You didn’t win a single one. You visited them all, to your credit, but you didn’t win a single one.’

‘But I also had, I mean, you know, how many people would have been able to handle $50 million in ads?’ DeSantis fired back. ‘How many people would have been able to handle all the headwinds we did? I mean, we had a very uphill battle.’

‘We dug in and we executed, and we did run hard. We did do well,’ he added.

On Saturday, DeSantis abruptly canceled two Sunday appearances planned for NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ and CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ with Jake Tapper, and is headed to New Hampshire for Tuesday’s presidential primary. 

‘The media hits were canceled due to a scheduling issue and will be rescheduled,’ DeSantis press secretary Bryan Griffin posted on X.

At his Saturday night rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, Trump took the opportunity to criticize the DeSantis.

‘In short, if you want a losing candidate who puts America last, vote for either one of them: Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis,’ Trump said to the crowd. 

Fox News Digital reached out to the DeSantis campaign for comment.

Fox News Digital’s Brie Stimson contributed to this report.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis canceled two TV appearances scheduled for Sunday due to a scheduling issue, his campaign confirmed Saturday. 

‘The media hits were canceled due to a scheduling issue and will be rescheduled,’ DeSantis press secretary Bryan Griffin posted on X, formerly Twitter.

He added that the GOP presidential candidate DeSantis will be, ‘traveling Sunday morning with the campaign and has public events scheduled Sunday evening through Tuesday’ in New Hampshire, where the nation’s first 2024 primary will be held.

The governor was expected to appear on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ and CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ with Jake Tapper on Sunday, but both shows confirmed on X that the campaign had canceled. 

RON DESANTIS ARGUES TIM SCOTT ENDORSEMENT OF DONALD TRUMP ‘IS A BLOW TO NIKKI HALEY’ 

The cancelations were due to a ‘last-minute schedule change,’ NBC reported, adding that DeSantis was planning to travel from South Carolina to New Hampshire to get at least one Granite State event on Sunday. 

Trump’s campaign manager retweeted news about DeSantis’ cancelations, joking ‘The end is near…’ suggesting it was a sign his presidential campaign was nearly over. 

DeSantis placed a distant second to former President Trump in Iowa on Monday, losing to him by 30 points. 

DeSantis narrowly edged out former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley in Iowa, but trails her by nearly 30 points in New Hampshire in polling averages (34.2% to 5.2%), according to 538.

Former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced his support for Nikki Haley on Saturday ahead of Tuesday’s Republican primary in New Hampshire.

‘Anyone who believes Donald Trump will unite this country has been asleep over the last 8 years,’ Hutchinson wrote on X, formerly Twitter. ‘Trump intentionally tries to divide America and will continue to do so. Go @NikkiHaley in New Hampshire. #FITN.’ 

Hutchinson’s support of Haley comes less than a week after he dropped out as a presidential candidate after he failed to gain any traction in the Iowa caucuses. 

Former presidential candidates Vikek Ramaswamy and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., have already endorsed Trump. 

Hutchinson told Fox News while he’s happy to offer his support Haley in New Hampshire, Saturday’s tweet was not an ‘official’ endorsement. 

Hutchinson has been sharply critical of Trump before and was booed last year after he said in front of a Republican crowd that it was likely Trump would be found guilty of a felony before the election was over. 

He also said earlier last year that Trump should drop out of the race after he was first indicted on criminal charges, saying that it would be a ‘sideshow and distraction’ during the election.

Haley placed a narrow third in Iowa to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis but is polling second in New Hampshire to Trump who also won Iowa. Trump, however, won Iowa by 30 points and has a double-digital lead in New Hampshire. 

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus has called on countries to sign on to the health organization’s pandemic treaty so the world can prepare for ‘Disease X.’

Ghebreyesus, speaking in front of an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday, said that he hoped countries would reach a pandemic agreement by May to address this ‘common enemy.’

Disease X is a hypothetical ‘placeholder’ virus that has not yet been formed, but scientists say it could be 20 times deadlier than COVID-19. It was added to the WHO’s short list of pathogens for research in 2017 that could cause a ‘serious international epidemic,’ according to a 2022 WHO press release.

Ghebreyesus said that COVID-19 was the first Disease X, but it’s important to prepare for another pandemic.

‘There are things that are unknown that may happen, and anything happening is a matter of when, not if, so we need to have a placeholder for that, for the diseases we don’t know,’ Ghebreyesus said.

‘We lost many people [during COVID] because we couldn’t manage them,’ Ghebreyesus said at the global confab. ‘They could have been saved, but there was no space. There was not enough oxygen. So how can you have a system that can expand when the need comes?’ 

He said that a shared response via the treaty would help the world better react to another outbreak. 

‘The pandemic agreement can bring all the experience, all the challenges that we have faced and all the solutions into one,’ Ghebreyesus said. ‘That agreement can help us to prepare for the future in a better way.’

‘This is a common global interest, and very narrow national interests should not come into the way.’

Ghebreyesus said that independent panels and experts have been working on ways to respond in a collective fashion and that a deadline for the treaty to be signed is in May.

He said that some of the preparedness responses could include an early-warning system, organizing supply chains and advancing research and development to test drugs. Primary health care would need to be looked at, too, given that wealthy countries did not fare well during COVID, since they struggled with basics like contact tracing.

‘It’s better to anticipate something that may happen because it has happened in our history many times, and prepare for it. We should not face things unprepared; we can prepare for some unknown things, as well.’ 

World leaders met in March 2021 to announce that a treaty was being negotiated and drafted.

‘The main goal of this treaty would be to foster an all-of-government and all-of-society approach, strengthening national, regional and global capacities and resilience to future pandemics,’ a statement put out by two dozen heads of state reads. 

‘This includes greatly enhancing international co-operation to improve, for example, alert systems, data-sharing, research and local, regional and global production and distribution of medical and public health countermeasures such as vaccines, medicines, diagnostics and personal protective equipment.’

The Biden administration was negotiating the global pandemic treaty last year. GOP critics have said that such an agreement would cede sovereignty to the WHO.

‘The World Health Organization pandemic treaty is very vague, it affects our sovereignty, and it could be exploited to tell Americans what kind of health care they need in the event of a global pandemic,’ Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., said at a May press conference.  

CONCORD, N.H. – Former President Donald Trump told supporters in the closing days ahead of the New Hampshire primary that he likely will not choose 2024 Republican nomination rival Nikki Haley as his running mate.

‘She is not presidential timber,’ Trump said of Haley as he spoke at a Friday night rally in New Hampshire’s capital city. ‘Now, when I say that, that probably means that she’s not going to be chosen as the vice president.’

At the same rally, the former president landed the endorsement of Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, who ended his own White House bid in November.

‘It’s time for us to unite our party so that we make sure that the only target we’re talking about is firing [President] Biden. Our country can’t take four more years. I’m not sure we could take ten more months,’ Scott argued in a Fox News interview following the Trump rally. ‘The best way for us to get rid of Joe Biden as our president is to unite our party now behind Donald Trump.’

Although his presidential campaign failed to ignite, Scott remains very popular with Republican primary voters, and his endorsement had been heavily coveted by the remaining GOP candidates.

Scott downplayed running-mate talk as he dropped out of the race two months ago.

But a source in the senator’s political orbit told Fox News on Saturday that Scott hasn’t ruled out serving as Trump’s vice presidential nominee, if Trump locks up the nomination in the weeks ahead.

‘I wouldn’t be surprised if Scott remains in the conversation for running mate,’ the source added.

With Trump crushing the competition in Monday’s Iowa caucuses — an important first step for the former president in his bid for the GOP nomination — buzz over whom he’d name as his running mate is increasing.

Besides Scott, speculation is also swirling around GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, the fourth-ranking House Republican and a fierce Trump supporter and ally on Capitol Hill.

Stefanik spoke at Friday night’s rally and made multiple campaign stops on behalf of Trump on Saturday.

‘I would be proud to serve in a Trump administration in any capacity,’ she told Fox News.

There was also running mate buzz on Friday surrounding Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, who campaigned on behalf of Trump in Kingston, New Hampshire.

‘The best place for me is to actually be an advocate of the agenda in the United States Senate,’ Vance told reporters regarding the potential to serve as running mate. 

But he added, ‘Certainly, if the president asked, I would have to think about it, because I want to help him.’ 

The running mate spotlight is also shining on a couple of other GOP politicians who have campaigned with or on behalf of Trump in recent weeks. The list includes South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. 

Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, who remains neutral in the GOP nomination race, is also seen as a potential running mate.

Trump dropped a provocative bomb earlier this month when he said during a Fox News town hall in Des Moines, Iowa, ‘I know who it’s going to be.’

But despite that bombshell, few in his political orbit have a good feel for whom Trump is leaning toward as his running mate.

Veteran Republican strategist Ryan Williams noted that ‘Trump prizes loyalty and fealty above everything else when it comes to his supporters.’

And Williams said that timing is crucial, noting that ‘if you want to be considered for the VP slot, now is a good time to come out and campaign and support him before the nomination race is officially settled.’

Former South Carolina Gov. and Republican candidate for president Nikki Haley on Saturday suggested that former President Trump may not be ‘mentally fit’ after he seemed to confuse her with ex-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., while discussing the Jan. 6 riot. 

‘Last night Trump is at a rally and he’s going on and on, mentioning me multiple times as to why I didn’t take security during the Capitol riots. Why I didn’t handle Jan. 6 better. I wasn’t even in D.C. on Jan. 6. I wasn’t in office then,’ Haley told supporters at a rally in Keene, New Hampshire, in anticipation of the state’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary Tuesday.

She continued, ‘They’re saying he got confused, that he was talking about something else, he’s talking about Nancy Pelosi. He mentioned me multiple times in that scenario.’ 

She said she didn’t want to say anything ‘derogatory’ about Trump, ‘but when you’re dealing with the pressures of the presidency, we can’t have someone else that we question whether they’re mentally fit to do this. We can’t,’ she added, referring to suggestions that President Biden isn’t mentally fit. 

While speaking in Concord, New Hampshire, Friday evening, Trump told his crowd, ‘By the way, they never report the crowd on Jan. 6. Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley. Do you know they destroyed all of the information, all of the evidence, everything, deleted and destroyed all of it?’

‘All of it, because of lots of things, like Nikki Haley is in charge of security,’ he mistakenly said about Jan. 6. ‘We offered her 10,000 people, soldiers, National Guard, whatever they want. They turned it down. They don’t want to talk about that. These are very dishonest people.’

Biden’s campaign was quick to post the clip on it’s X, formerly Twitter, ‘rapid response channel, with the caption: ‘Haley reacts to Trump’s delusional and confused rant last night where he suggested that she was Speaker of the House on January 6: He got confused. I question if he’s mentally fit.’ 

With three days left until the Republican primary in New Hampshire, Haley and Trump have stepped up attacks against each other. 

Haley finished a narrow third to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in Iowa, but has surged past him in polling for the Granite State, although Trump maintains a double-digit lead in most polls. 

Haley, 52, has repeatedly presented herself as a younger, fresher alternative to Biden, 81, and Trump, 77, and said there should be a mental fitness test for anyone holding office who is over 75. 

Fox News Digital has reached out to the Haley and Trump campaigns for comment. 

WASHINGTON D.C. – Pro-life voters are not overjoyed with former President Trump’s comments on abortion late last year, but some still plan to vote for him if he wins the Republican nomination.

At the 2024 March for Life rally in Washington, D.C., Fox News Digital spoke with voters who were torn over his recent comments.

Trump was vocally pro-life throughout his presidency, but he drew backlash after telling MSNBC in September that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ six-week ban on abortion was ‘a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.’

‘I mean, ‘DeSanctus’ [DeSantis] is willing to sign a five-week and six-week ban,’ the former president told the outlet. ‘I think what he did is a terrible thing and a terrible mistake.’

‘I would sit down with both sides, and I’d negotiate something, and we’ll end up with peace on that issue for the first time in 52 years,’ Trump added.

One voter at the March for Life told Fox News Digital that there should be no ‘compromise’ when it comes to abortion.

‘While Trump was an amazing president for the pro-life movement. We have seen, unfortunately, that he seems to want to compromise on the abortion issue, and we think that it is never okay to compromise on killing innocent children,’ a young voter told Fox News Digital. ‘And that’s what abortion is. And so if I could talk to President Trump right now, I’d maybe ask him what he’s thinking.’

Another individual said that Trump’s comments on his opponent’s six-week ban were ‘very heartbreaking’ and will ‘probably affect how I vote.’

‘It definitely makes me wonder what his actual opinions on abortion are, versus like if he’s just saying these for votes,’ one voter told Fox.

While some pro-lifers are concerned over the comments, other rally-goers believe Trump is pro-life, and they will continue to support his third bid for the presidency.

‘Overall, with other policies and things, I think I would still vote for Trump,’ one woman told Fox.

Another individual suggested that while some candidates may support earlier bans on abortion, six weeks might be difficult for a candidate to push on the national stage.

‘I think Trump is pro-life. I think we’ll stick with his vote,’ another pro-Trump voter told Fox. ‘But politically speaking, you know, six weeks is a hard push. You know, my ultimate goal is [a] total ban on abortion. That’s what I would like. But politically speaking, you got to take one step at a time. And I think it’s where Trump is coming from.’

One individual said that his actions on abortion while president speak louder than his recent comments.

‘It’s really the actions that matter most. And we can see from Trump’s presidency that his actions were pro-life, like, he got Amy Coney Barrett into the Supreme Court. And I think his actions speak louder than his words.’

The Trump campaign touted the former president’s pro-life record — particularly appointing Supreme Court justices who ultimately overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, returning abortion restrictions to states —  in a statement to Fox News Digital.

‘President Trump’s unmatched pro-life record speaks for itself,’ said Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung. 

‘He appointed strong Constitutionalist federal judges and Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v. Wade, which others have tried to do for over 50 years. He ended taxpayer-funded abortions, reinstated the Mexico City Policy that protects life abroad, and took many other actions to defend the unborn,’ Cheung said.

Cheung noted that pro-life advocacy group Susan B. Anthony List called Trump ‘the most consequential in American history for the pro-life cause.

‘Throughout these unprecedented successes, President Trump has always advised fellow Republicans that they must learn to talk about this critical issue the right way and remind voters that it is Democrats who are the extreme ones on abortion, not Republicans, despite the left’s attempt to paint it that way,’ Cheung added. 

‘Joe Biden and virtually every Democrat in Congress is on the record supporting on-demand abortion up until the moment of birth, and after birth, as well as using American tax dollars to fund the killing of the most vulnerable. That’s why millions of pro-life Americans will vote to send President Trump back to the White House,’ he said.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., announced this week he plans to hold a vote on Jan. 31 to subpoena the CEOs of two big Pharma companies for a hearing on drug pricing in front of the Health, Education Labor & Pensions (HELP) Committee after they refused to testify last year.

The subpoenas for Johnson & Johnson CEO Joaquin Duato and Merck CEO Robert Davis would have them testify about why their costs for medicine are ‘substantially higher’ compared to other countries, the announcement said. 

But some executives see the pending subpoenas as a form of retaliation for a court battle over Medicare price negotiations.

‘It is absolutely unacceptable that the CEOs of Johnson & Johnson and Merck have refused an invitation by a majority of members on the HELP Committee to appear before Congress about the outrageously high price of prescription drugs,’ Sanders said. ‘These CEOs may make tens of millions of dollars in compensation. The pharmaceutical companies they run may make billions in profits.’

In November, Sanders requested Duato and Davis for testimonies on drug pricing, but they insisted that a ‘senior pharmaceutical executive best positioned to address and provide Johnson & Johnson’s position regarding the issues’ should instead appear, according to a letter Johnson & Johnson attorney Brian D. Smith sent to Sanders this week in response to the subpoena announcement. 

‘Johnson & Johnson offered to make available for the hearing the senior pharmaceutical executive best positioned to address and provide Johnson & Johnson’s position regarding the issues posed in your invitation letter,’ Smith wrote. ‘Throughout these discussions, Johnson & Johnson has also made clear its concerns with the direction the Committee is taking with the hearing, including the reasons that the company’s chief executive is not the appropriate witness for this hearing. We appreciate the opportunity to reiterate the concerns that we have previously conveyed to your staff over the past three months, and we urge you to consider permitting the Committee to hear from the appropriate executive for these topics.’

The two Pharma companies, alongside others, are currently suing to freeze Medicare drug price negotiation under Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. Merck Executive Vice President Jennifer Zachary also sent a letter to Sanders this week suggesting the request to have the CEOs testify in front of the Senate panel is a form of ‘retaliation’ for the ongoing lawsuit.

 ‘We appreciate that many Committee members have expressed their disagreement with our lawsuit, and we respect their good-faith views. That said, your public criticisms of the Companies for challenging the IRA and comments regarding hearing witnesses indicate that the invitations to testify have been extended as retaliation for the Companies’ exercise of their constitutional right to seek relief in court,’ Zachary wrote. 

Joe Grogan, who served as a domestic policy advisor to former President Trump, told Fox News Digital in an interview that ‘CEOs are not the subject matter experts in the company who can explain all the different aspects of the pharmaceutical supply chain’ and negotiations with other governments.

‘To put a fine point on it, it’s completely un-American,’ Grogan said. ‘I mean, these companies have every right to avail themselves of the courts, they have every right to sue and to be for him to target these three companies is not a coincidence.’