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The Great Hypocrisy of the Pro-Life Movement
Opinion | The Great Hypocrisy of the Pro-Life Movement
There is no longer a truly pro-life party in the United States.
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On Wednesday, Trump reversed his previous position supporting a 20-week ban on abortion; he announced that he would not support a national abortion ban if he wins the presidency, and he said the policy should instead be left up to the states. This is a traditional pro-life position, but only if you also urge states to use their autonomy to pass pro-life bills. Instead, Trump’s advice to voters was to “follow your heart” and “do what’s right for your family, and do what’s right for yourself.” It’s “all about the will of the people,” he said.
This is the most pro-choice position a Republican presidential candidate has taken since at least Gerald Ford. And how did the pro-life establishment respond? With mild criticism, but also with immediate support. As Politico reported this week, “Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Students for Life, the Faith and Freedom Coalition, the Family Research Council, National Right to Life and CatholicVote reiterated their commitment Monday morning to electing Trump.”
It’s no wonder, then, that the pro-life cause is in a state of emergency so soon after its greatest legal triumph, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. It has lost every referendum since the Supreme Court decided Dobbs, including ballot measures in red states like Kentucky, Kansas, Montana and Ohio. Early polling indicates that Florida’s proposed pro-choice referendum may well cross the 60 percent threshold needed to pass and overturn the state’s six-week abortion ban. In fact, a majority of Republican voters appear to support the referendum.
Even more ominously from a pro-life perspective, the abortion rate rose under Trump, and the total number of abortions has actually increased since the Dobbs decision.
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After Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization the Po-Life movement has splintered. If life begins at conception why did the republican Alabama state legislature immediately vote to grant IVF sweeping protections after Alabama's Supreme Court ruling? Does not in vitro fertilization create human lives worth the as much as human lives created in the womb?
Trump now says abortion should be left to the states but he criticized the State of Florida's six week ban and would accept the decisions of states whose referendums protect the right to abortions. Trump is neither pro-choice nor pro-life. As always, Trump is pro-Trump.
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