Friday marked the 52nd annual March for Life event, in which pro-life activists from around the nation gather in Washington D.C. to express their fervent opposition to the legal practice of abortion to end the lives of countless innocent unborn babies.

To coincide with this year's March for Life, President Donald Trump took executive action to ensure that U.S. taxpayer dollars are no longer used to fund abortions, either domestically or in foreign lands, according to the Daily Caller.

In addition to making sure that the so-called Hyde Amendment is once again fully enforced, Trump also granted clemency one day before the annual march to nearly two dozen pro-life activists who'd been criminally prosecuted and imprisoned by the Biden administration for exercising their free speech rights to vocally oppose abortions outside of abortion clinics.

Pro-life Hyde Amendment will once again be enforced

On Friday, President Trump signed an executive order that reaffirmed the federal government would once again enforce the Hyde Amendment, a nearly 50-year-old act of Congress that outlawed the use of taxpayer funds for elective abortions in the U.S., which reflected "a longstanding consensus that American taxpayers should not be forced to pay for that practice."

"However, the previous administration disregarded this established, commonsense policy by embedding forced taxpayer funding of elective abortions in a wide variety of Federal programs," Trump's order stated. "It is the policy of the United States, consistent with the Hyde Amendment, to end the forced use of Federal taxpayer dollars to fund or promote elective abortion."

As such, Trump revoked two executive orders signed in 2022 by his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, that sought to sidestep the Hyde Amendment's prohibition on taxpayer dollars funding elective abortions.

According to a White House "fact sheet," the first of those two orders from Biden "imposed a whole-of-government effort to promote and fund abortion" and also politicized enforcement of the weaponized Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, which was used to criminalize and excessively prosecute pro-life activists who peacefully protested or merely prayed within a certain distance of abortion clinics.

The second now-rescinded order from Biden "recategorized abortion as 'healthcare' in order to provide taxpayer funding for elective abortions," which included allowing the use of Medicaid funding to reimburse travel costs for elective abortions for women who were compelled by their home states' restrictive anti-abortion laws to travel to other states to obtain the deadly procedures.

Pro-life "Mexico City Policy" reinstated

President Trump's second overtly pro-life action to coincide with the March for Life was the issuance of a memorandum to reinstate the so-called "Mexico City Policy" that was first implemented more than four decades ago under former President Ronald Reagan.

In essence, that policy acts as a sort of Hyde Amendment for the rest of the world, in that it prohibits the use of U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund or promote abortions in foreign countries.

The White House "fact sheet" noted that Trump had reimplemented the Mexico City Policy in 2017 after former President Barack Obama had rescinded it, and has now put that policy back in place once more after it was revoked again under former President Biden.

Pardons for prosecuted pro-life activists

President Trump also took action on Thursday to sign pardons for nearly two dozen pro-life activists who'd been unfairly targeted, prosecuted, and imprisoned under the FACE Act by the Biden administration for exercising their First Amendment-protected rights in the vicinity of abortion clinics.

"Twenty-three people that were prosecuted. They should not have been prosecuted," Trump said. "Many of -- many of them are -- are elderly people. They should not have been prosecuted. This is a great honor to sign this."

Trump went on to note that the clemency recipients would be "very happy" about the pardons and reiterated that it was "ridiculous" that any of them had been prosecuted and imprisoned for peacefully expressing their pro-life views in the first place.