JD Vance Says Americans Won’t Find Purpose ‘in a Cubicle’ but Instead as Parents Through the ‘Creation of Human Life’

Vice President JD Vance said Americans can find deeper purpose through raising children while speaking in Washington, D.C., at the March for Life rally on Friday, Jan. 23.

Addressing the crowd, Vance, 41, argued that fulfillment doesn’t come from workplace routines or screens.

“To our fellow Americans, we say, you’re never gonna find great meaning in a cubicle or in front of a computer screen,” he said. “But you will find great meaning if you dedicate yourself to the creation and sustenance of human life.”

Vance also referenced remarks he made at last year’s March for Life, telling attendees that he has a track record of “practic[ing] what he preaches,” after saying in 2025 that he wanted “more babies in the United States of America.”

“I want more happy children in our country, and I want beautiful young men and women who are eager to welcome them into the world and eager to raise them,” he said at the time.

Earlier this week, Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, announced they are expecting their fourth child, a boy. The couple already share three children: Ewan, 8; Vivek, 5; and Mirabel, 4.

During his speech, Vance highlighted multiple anti-abortion initiatives he said the Trump administration has pursued during Trump’s second term, including a newly announced fraud investigation involving Planned Parenthood and a ban on the use of fetal tissue in federal research.

He also praised the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade, and said the administration was pursuing what he described as a “historic expansion of the Mexico City Policy,” which prevents foreign groups receiving U.S. global health funding from providing or promoting abortion.

President Donald Trump addressed the rally in a recorded video, according to NJ.com. “We’re bringing back faith in America,” Trump, 79, said. “We’re bringing back God. We have stopped forced taxpayer funding of abortion at home and abroad.”

Vance and Usha, 40, shared the pregnancy news in a Jan. 20 Instagram post, saying she is doing well.

“We’re very excited to share the news that Usha is pregnant with our fourth child, a boy. Usha and the baby are doing well, and we are all looking forward to welcoming him in late July,” the post read.

The post also thanked military doctors and staff for supporting the family while Vance serves in office.

Usha will be the second known vice presidential spouse to give birth while her husband is in office. The first was Ellen Colfax — the wife of Schuyler Colfax, vice president under Ulysses Grant — who had a son in 1870.

Vance has repeatedly encouraged Americans to have more children, including amid backlash during the 2024 campaign over a resurfaced interview in which he criticized Democratic leadership as “a bunch of childless cat ladies.”

In a 2021 conference organized by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, he framed declining birth rates and family formation as part of what he called a “civilization crisis.”

“We should worry that in America, family formation, our birth rates, a ton of indicators of family health have collapsed,” he said.