{"id":1868,"date":"2023-09-20T07:25:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T07:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/20\/the-intersection-of-trump-abortion-and-the-pro-life-movement\/"},"modified":"2023-09-20T07:25:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T07:25:59","slug":"the-intersection-of-trump-abortion-and-the-pro-life-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/20\/the-intersection-of-trump-abortion-and-the-pro-life-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Intersection of Trump, Abortion, and the Pro-Life Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"


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By Samuel Sey<\/span><\/a><\/span>, Op-ed contributor
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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at the Pray Vote Stand Summit at the Omni Shoreham Hotel on September 15, 2023, in Washington, D.C. The summit featured remarks from multiple 2024 Republican Presidential candidates making their case to the conservative audience members. <\/span> | Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Donald Trump\u2019s biggest enemy isn\u2019t the Democrats, the media, or the deep state. Donald Trump\u2019s biggest enemy is Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t a single person more committed to disparaging his greatest accomplishment \u2014 helping to overturn Roe v. Wade <\/em>\u2014 than Trump himself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In an interview with NBC\u2019s “Meet The Press” yesterday, Trump suggested<\/a> he wouldn\u2019t sign a federal bill that would completely ban abortion. When the interviewer asked him if he would sign a federal bill banning abortion at 15 weeks, he refused to answer \u2014 saying, \u201cI would sit down with both sides (Republicans and Democrats) and negotiate something. I\u2019m not going to say I would or I wouldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also said he doesn\u2019t support Ron DeSantis\u2019 Heartbeat Protection Act (a bill that bans most surgical abortions in Florida after 6 weeks gestation), saying:\u00a0\u201cI think what he did is a terrible thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s words surprised many of his evangelical and conservative voters, but this is just the latest in a series of attacks against the pro-life movement. After the 2022 midterm elections, Trump blamed<\/a>\u00a0pro-life Republicans for the party\u2019s poor results. Since then, he\u2019s consistently downplayed the injustice of abortion throughout his campaign.<\/p>\n

This is particularly disappointing because Trump is the reason why Republicans have been able to pass many pro-life bills over the last year. He kept his promise from the previous presidential campaign that he would nominate pro-life Justices to the Supreme Court. Those Justices made up half of the deciding vote to overturn\u00a0Roe v. Wade<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s latest position on abortion doesn\u2019t change the great things he did for pre-born babies. Next to his crucial role in helping to overturn\u00a0Roe v. Wade<\/em>, he reinstated the Mexico City policy, stripped Title X funding from Planned Parenthood, and he is the first sitting president to speak at the March for Life.<\/p>\n

However, despite what some of his followers want us to believe, that doesn\u2019t justify his depraved words. Trump\u2019s words suggest he\u2019s more interested in pleasing Democrats than protecting children from murder.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Overturning\u00a0Roe v. Wade<\/em> was a vital step, but it wasn\u2019t the final step. It made pro-life bills like DeSantis\u2019 Heartbeat Protection Act possible. But they aren\u2019t the final step either. Republicans should introduce pro-life bills at every opportunity until every unwanted baby is protected from murder.<\/p>\n

Shamefully, however, some of Trump\u2019s most loyal followers \u2014 including some Christians \u2014 are deflecting to blame the pro-life movement. One of their many absurd excuses for Trump is that his position on abortion is identical to the pro-life movement\u2019s incremental approach to abolishing abortion. So according to them, pro-life people who criticize Trump are hypocrites.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But that just doesn\u2019t make any sense. It\u2019s completely illogical. If Trump\u2019s position on abortion was identical to the pro-life movement\u2019s, he wouldn\u2019t be criticizing the pro-life movement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After all, his words were in response to the pro-life movement\u2019s heartbeat laws. Also, there\u2019s a major difference between introducing incremental bills that will receive enough votes to pass and only signing bills that will make Democrats happy \u2014 as if any pro-life bill will make the Democrats happy.<\/p>\n

So Trump\u2019s latest position on abortion isn\u2019t identical to the pro-life movement\u2019s position on abortion. Which is why the pro-life movement has denounced his words.<\/p>\n

Lila Rose from Live Action\u00a0said<\/a>, \u201c[Trump\u2019s words] are pathetic and unacceptable \u2026 Trump should not be the GOP nominee.\u201d<\/p>\n

I agree. I hope Trump\u2019s anti-abortion voters also agree.<\/p>\n\n

Originally published at Slow to Write.\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Samuel Sey is a Ghanaian-Canadian who lives in Brampton, a city just outside of Toronto. He is committed to addressing racial, cultural, and political issues with biblical theology, and always attempts to be quick to listen and slow to speak.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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