Mike Pence: Abortion Bans ‘More Important Than Short-Term Politics’

Champagne in hand, Mike Pence delivered a speech Tuesday night he had worked toward his entire political career.

The former vice president toasted the Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade, celebrated the lawmakers who had confirmed the conservative Supreme Court majority behind the landmark Dobbs decision, and told those gathered for a gala hosted by the pro-life Susan B. Anthony group in the nation’s capital that they had only reached what he called “the end of the beginning.”

Pence, who harbors his own White House ambitions and who has...