JD Vance Says Wife Usha’s Pregnancy Is Proof He ‘Practices What He Preaches’ After Insisting He Wanted More U.S. Babies

Vice President JD Vance used news of second lady Usha Vance’s pregnancy to underscore a message he’s repeated from the stage of the annual March for Life rally.

Speaking at the 2026 March for Life in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Jan. 23, Vance pointed back to his remarks at last year’s event, when he told the crowd, “Let me say very simply: I want more babies in the United States of America.”

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

With the couple now expecting their fourth child — a boy — Vance told rallygoers this year, “So let the record show, you have a vice president who practices what he preaches.”

Vance and Usha Vance already share three children: Ewan, 8; Vivek, 5; and Mirabel, 4.

During his remarks Friday, Vance argued that becoming a parent is where many people will find real purpose.

“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.”

He also announced the administration was seeking what he called a “historic expansion of the Mexico City Policy,” which bars foreign groups that receive U.S. global health funding from providing or promoting abortion.

The administration is “expanding this policy to protect life,” Vance told the crowd.

President Donald Trump also addressed the rally in a recorded video.

“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.”

Rachana Desai Martin, chief U.S. program officer for the Center for Reproductive Rights, criticized the proposed expansion in a statement to NBC News, calling it “a stunning abdication of basic human decency.”

“President Trump and his anti-abortion administration would rather let people starve to death in the wake of famine and war than let anyone in the world get an abortion — or even receive information about it,” Desai Martin said. “People are already dying because of this administration’s slashing of foreign assistance. Now, they’re making it harder for doctors and aid workers to provide food, water, and lifesaving medical care.”

A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association last February found that, domestically, there was “higher than expected infant mortality in states after adoption of abortion bans.”

The increase from 2012 to 2023 was 5.6%, and was higher among Black infants, a group that’s already at a higher risk of infant death.