Jesús Poveda and the silenced protest: Where are the limits of the defense of life?Can we overcome social polarization on the issue of abortion?Sex, lies and abortion lawsLast January 24, 2025 was the massive and historic March for Life in Washington, a few days after Trump signed multiple express executive orders-among which the Born-Alive Abortion Survivor Protection Act is noteworthy-as Omnes recounted in the article by María Wiering and Marietha Góngora V. (OSV News)The article highlighted the speech of the vice-president of the United States on the impressive pro-life day. But who is this person and where does his commitment to life come from?
James David Vance turned 40 years old on August 2, 2024. He was born in Middletown, Ohio. The son of a broken family and a drug-addicted mother, he was a Marine and served in the Iraq war, then went to law school, earning his J.D. from Yale in 2013. He married Usha, a fellow Yale law school student, in 2014. He lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has three. In 2016 he wrote a book explaining his background and ideas "Hillbilly, a rural elegy".
In 2017 he started working for Revolution LLC, in Silicon Valley. In 2019 he was received into the Catholic Church and chose St. Augustine of Hippo as his confirmation patron saint, for his ability to transmit the faith. From that same year is his famous article, entitled "An elegy for the American dream", published in the digital magazine Unherd in 2019. In 2023, he was elected senator for Ohio, after a few years dedicated to preparing his political career. In the month of July 2024 he was chosen by Trump as a candidate for vice president of the USA, even though in the past he had been his staunch opponent. And he is currently the vice president of this country.
In Unherd's aforementioned article, republished by the same magazine in July 2024, he briefly explains his conservative ideas, which stem largely from a lack of them in his childhood, such as the absence of a structured family.
One of his top priorities is life and its defense as can be read in that journalistic piece: "When I think about my own life, what has made my life better is the fact that I am the father of a two-year-old boy. When I think about the demons of my own childhood and how those demons have vanished in the love and laughter of my oldest child; when I look at friends of mine who have grown up in difficult circumstances and have become parents and have become more connected to their communities, to their families, to their faith, because of the role of their own children, I say we want babies not just because they are economically useful. We want more babies because the children are good."
This testimony gives a better understanding of the speech he gave at the March for Life, when he said, "Let me say very simply, 'I want more babies in the United States of America: I want more babies in the United States of America." This pro-life revival is going unnoticed in Europe, but it will eventually help to stop this silent genocide that is ravaging the world.
