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Political positions of Mike Pence
Throughout his political career, Mike Pence has held conservative views.
Pence is an opponent of abortion, and his unwavering support of abortion restrictions has gained him the support of grassroots conservative activists. He began seeking to defund Planned Parenthood in 2007 and in three congressional sessions, he introduced legislation to block organizations that provide abortion services from receiving any Title X funding, even for services not related to reproductive health or family planning. Susan B. Anthony List president Marjorie Dannenfelser has praised Pence as a "pro-life trailblazer".
Pence has criticized comprehensive sex education. In 2002, he criticized a speech by then-secretary of state Colin Powell, who had said it was "important for young people ... to protect themselves from the possibility of acquiring any sexually transmitted disease" through the use of condoms. Pence called Powell's comments a "sad day" and expressed his support for abstinence education. He asserted that "condoms are a very, very poor protection against sexually transmitted diseases" and that Powell was "maybe inadvertently misleading millions of young people and endangering lives" despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) assessment that when properly used they offer effective protection against sexually transmitted diseases.
Pence opposed president Barack Obama's executive order eliminating restrictions on embryonic stem-cell research, saying: "I believe it is morally wrong to create human life to destroy it for research ... I believe it is morally wrong to take the tax dollars of millions of pro-life Americans." He asserted that "scientific breakthroughs have rendered embryonic stem-cell research obsolete."
On January 27, 2017, Pence spoke at the March for Life in Washington, D.C., becoming the first vice president of the United States, and at the time, the highest-ranking U.S. official to ever speak at the annual event, until president Donald Trump spoke at the event in 2020.
Pence said in 2018 he supported an overturn of Roe v. Wade, but denied U.S. Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh was nominated for that purpose. During the 2020 vice presidential debate, when moderator Susan Page asked what he would want states to do if Roe were overturned, Pence refused to endorse criminalizing abortion, instead simply referring to himself as "pro-life".
The day the Supreme Court overturned Roe in June 2022, Pence told Breitbart News: "Roe v. Wade has been consigned to the ash heap of history...Having been given this second chance for life, we must not rest and must not relent until the sanctity of life is restored to the center of American law in every state in the land."
During Juneteenth Day of 2020, a television journalist asked Pence if he would say the words Black Lives Matter. Pence replied that all lives matter. He added that no significant U.S. group would disagree, as he saw it, about "the preciousness and importance of every human life". Pence denounced the police abolition movement when speaking to a police union rally in Philadelphia in July 2020, commenting how "we also don't need to choose between supporting our police and supporting African American families here in Philadelphia or anywhere in America. We can do both. We have done both."
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Political positions of Mike Pence
Throughout his political career, Mike Pence has held conservative views.
Pence is an opponent of abortion, and his unwavering support of abortion restrictions has gained him the support of grassroots conservative activists. He began seeking to defund Planned Parenthood in 2007 and in three congressional sessions, he introduced legislation to block organizations that provide abortion services from receiving any Title X funding, even for services not related to reproductive health or family planning. Susan B. Anthony List president Marjorie Dannenfelser has praised Pence as a "pro-life trailblazer".
Pence has criticized comprehensive sex education. In 2002, he criticized a speech by then-secretary of state Colin Powell, who had said it was "important for young people ... to protect themselves from the possibility of acquiring any sexually transmitted disease" through the use of condoms. Pence called Powell's comments a "sad day" and expressed his support for abstinence education. He asserted that "condoms are a very, very poor protection against sexually transmitted diseases" and that Powell was "maybe inadvertently misleading millions of young people and endangering lives" despite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) assessment that when properly used they offer effective protection against sexually transmitted diseases.
Pence opposed president Barack Obama's executive order eliminating restrictions on embryonic stem-cell research, saying: "I believe it is morally wrong to create human life to destroy it for research ... I believe it is morally wrong to take the tax dollars of millions of pro-life Americans." He asserted that "scientific breakthroughs have rendered embryonic stem-cell research obsolete."
On January 27, 2017, Pence spoke at the March for Life in Washington, D.C., becoming the first vice president of the United States, and at the time, the highest-ranking U.S. official to ever speak at the annual event, until president Donald Trump spoke at the event in 2020.
Pence said in 2018 he supported an overturn of Roe v. Wade, but denied U.S. Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh was nominated for that purpose. During the 2020 vice presidential debate, when moderator Susan Page asked what he would want states to do if Roe were overturned, Pence refused to endorse criminalizing abortion, instead simply referring to himself as "pro-life".
The day the Supreme Court overturned Roe in June 2022, Pence told Breitbart News: "Roe v. Wade has been consigned to the ash heap of history...Having been given this second chance for life, we must not rest and must not relent until the sanctity of life is restored to the center of American law in every state in the land."
During Juneteenth Day of 2020, a television journalist asked Pence if he would say the words Black Lives Matter. Pence replied that all lives matter. He added that no significant U.S. group would disagree, as he saw it, about "the preciousness and importance of every human life". Pence denounced the police abolition movement when speaking to a police union rally in Philadelphia in July 2020, commenting how "we also don't need to choose between supporting our police and supporting African American families here in Philadelphia or anywhere in America. We can do both. We have done both."