Trump Sends Message to Pro-Life Governments
By: Stevano Gennarini, J.D., originally published October 24, 2025, Center for Family & Human Rights
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 24 (C-Fam) President Trump said he was “proud” to rejoin the Geneva Consensus Declaration, a pro-life international declaration launched during the first Trump administration that Joe Biden reneged on his first day in office.
“I will never waver in protecting the sanctity of every human life. I will always be a voice for the voiceless and a defender for the most vulnerable among us,” said President Trump in a letter to a gathering of 40 governments that signed the declaration. The commemorative event took place at the Willard Hotel on Wednesday and celebrated the 5th anniversary of the Declaration. The event originally scheduled to take place at the capitol building had to be moved because of the government shutdown.
“My administration is steadfastly devoted to restoring a culture that values the inherent dignity of every child and to upholding the eternal truth that every person is created in the holy image and likeness of God, with infinite hope and boundless potential,” he continued. “Together with our allies and partners across the world, we will continue to build a future rooted in faith, family, and freedom.”
The event proved the staying power of the Geneva Consensus Declaration which continues to be one of the most effective and low-cost foreign policy initiatives of the first Trump administration. Despite relatively little expense and effort, and in the face of active attempts by the Biden administration and the European Union to sabotage the Declaration, it has remained a powerful tool to convene governments around the protection of life, optimal women’s health, the family, and sovereignty. This year not only did the U.S. rejoin the declaration, the Republic of Guinea also joined for the first time.
Congressmen and representatives of governments from across the world who spoke at the event insisted on the sovereign right of countries to legislate in favor of the family and against abortion, free of international pressure.
“The international community has no right to tell any country what our policies should be on life and family,” said U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau. He decried UN officials and bodies who “appoint themselves as international arbiters” on social policies that should be decided “democratically, by our own people.” He also emphasized that respect for sovereignty must be the “organizing principle” of all international relations.
Pro-life congressional leader Chris Smith (R-NJ) lamented how the Biden administration had ushered into several “dark years” where President Biden tried to “put abortion in everything he could.” As a result, Smith said, abortion industry giants International Planned Parenthood Federation and Marie Stopes International wielded abortion as a “weapon of mass destruction” causing the deaths of millions of unborn children each year.
Smith also accused the World Health Organization of putting women’s lives on the line through dangerous abortion practices. He cited a study from the Ethics and Public Policy Center published earlier this year showed how, according to health insurance carriers, 11% of women who took the abortion pill had serious complications, one of the most common being hemorrhaging. “In the developing world hemorrhaging is a death sentence,” Smith said.
During the event, the president of the Institute for Women’s Health Valerie Huber, presented an award for Victor Orban, the President of Hungary. His Minister of Foreign Affairs, Péter Szijjártó, attended the event and received the award in Orbán’s stead. Szijjártó highlighted Hungary’s pro-family policies, including policies designed to eliminate any economic disincentive for families to have children through baby bonuses, tax breaks, favorable government housing loans, and other initiatives.
Stefano Gennarini is the Vice President for Legal Studies at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam).