{"id":163050,"date":"2017-02-25T08:56:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T13:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=163050"},"modified":"2017-02-25T08:56:40","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T13:56:40","slug":"vice-president-mike-pence-at-cpac-life-issue-is-what-hes-most-of-all-grateful-and-honored-to-serve-with-trump-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/vice-president-mike-pence-at-cpac-life-issue-is-what-hes-most-of-all-grateful-and-honored-to-serve-with-trump-on\/","title":{"rendered":"VP Pence at CPAC: Life issue is what he’s ‘most of all… grateful and honored to serve with’ Trump on"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vice President Mike Pence spoke to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday night. During his 20 minute address, he made several pro-life mentions, which were met with cheers, applause, and standing ovations.<\/p>\n

About halfway through the speech, Pence referenced how President Donald Trump was “restoring the culture of life” in the United States. He also touched upon the plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as ObamaCare. Pence and other Republicans have criticized the healthcare law for many reasons, but pro-lifers have taken particular issue with its funding of abortions despite executive promises<\/a> as well as a mandate requiring employers to provide all forms of contraception, including those which may act as abortifacients<\/a>. Earlier this year,\u00a0a federal court blocked a mandate<\/a> which require employers to cover abortions.<\/p>\n

The “intrusion into your business and into your lives” Pence referenced apply to these contraception mandates and abortion coverage requirements that a number of courts have found unconstitutional.<\/p>\n