(The Lion) — A Planned Parenthood director-turned pro-life activist says with President Donald Trump and a Republican-led Congress, it’s time to do everything possible to protect babies and mothers from the devastation of abortion.

“The time for baby steps is over,” Abby Johnson, founder and CEO of And Then There Were None and ProLove Ministries, told The Lion, urging the Trump administration to do all it can to reverse the damage done to the nation and our culture via the Biden-Harris pro-abortion agenda:

“President Trump needs to do everything in his power to defund Planned Parenthood, remove all federal funding of any programs – domestic and international – that give money to any organization that commits, supports, or refers for abortion. Americans solidly rejected Kamala Harris’ radical abortion agenda, and I hope President Trump and his Administration use whatever tools they can to remember the election and the mandate they were given.”

Trump has frequently expressed pride in his first-term appointments of three U.S. Supreme Court justices who voted with the majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. His administration and Congress now appear to be engaged in multiple efforts to institute a pro-life agenda.

Among the first executive orders delivered by Trump were those that withdraw the United States from two pro-abortion entities: the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Paris Climate Accord.

Trump also established on Monday the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), whose designated leader, Elon Musk, with Vivek Ramaswamy, wrote that DOGE would help address the federal spending crisis through “taking aim at the $500 billion-plus in annual federal expenditures that are unauthorized by Congress or being used in ways that Congress never intended.”

Among those “expenditures” they named was the “nearly $300 million to progressive groups like Planned Parenthood.”

The president is also expected to restore the Mexico City Policy, which would restrict foreign nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that receive U.S. funding from performing, or offering information about, abortions.

Additionally, the Trump administration has officially shut down the Biden-Harris “Reproductive Rights” website – a government site that promoted abortion and had been launched on the day the U.S. Supreme Court released its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade.

Meanwhile, pro-life advocates are urging Trump to pardon the 21 individuals who have been prosecuted by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice for protesting peacefully in front of abortion clinics.

Trump talked about the jailed pro-life advocates during his address at the 2025 Faith & Freedom Coalition event:

As part of the effort to end the purported weaponization of the federal government against the pro-life movement, House Republicans are hoping to repeal the law that was used by the Biden administration to prosecute pro-life advocates.

Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas is leading his colleagues in the House in the effort to repeal the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act of 1994.

While the Act prohibits force, or threats of force, against abortion clinics, it does not prohibit peaceful protests in accord with the First Amendment right to free speech.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina had also introduced a bill to protect babies who are born alive following a botched abortion.

“Ensuring that newborn babies receive medical care, regardless of the circumstances, should not be a divisive issue,” Tillis said in a statement. “It is unconscionable that there are situations where health care professionals might not make every effort to save a life when the need arises. This commonsense legislation is crucial for protecting the lives of newborns, and I am committed to fighting for the life and well-being of babies who survive abortions.”

“Protecting babies born alive after a botched abortion is one of the most basic, humane laws legislators can vote for,” Johnson told The Lion. “That this country even needs to pass a law that adds stricter penalties for not saving these babies is almost unbelievable. I hope legislators do the right thing and vote to protect babies born alive after abortion and hold those accountable who refuse to obey our laws.”

Democrats in the Senate, however, blocked advancement of the bill Wednesday, 52-47. The measure failed to reach the 60-vote threshold needed for cloture.

Trump’s inauguration Monday kicked off a flood of pro-life events, including National Sanctity of Human Life Day on Wednesday and the pro-life movement’s signature national March for Life rally and march in the nation’s capital, scheduled for Friday.

The pro-life events come as the pro-abortion and pro-LGBT “People’s March,” held Saturday on the streets of Washington, D.C., had hoped to invigorate a throng of protests and resistance to Trump’s second term. Instead, the march fizzled out, with far fewer people attending than eight years ago, when Trump was inaugurated the first time.

A sad but painful reminder of how ending the life of the unborn has been placed on a pedestal as a “human right” also came on Monday with news of the death of former Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards, 67, who turned the abortion industry giant into a political powerhouse that embraced the radical LGBT agenda as well.

In a statement prior to leaving office, Biden, who awarded Richards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in November, praised her for fighting for “some of our Nation’s most important civil rights causes.”

Pro-life leaders, nevertheless, poignantly offered prayers for Richards.