Politics and Religion
Where The Pro-Life Movement Went Wrong
Don’t blame Donald Trump
Political losses have piled up for the pro-life movement, and now even their anointed one, Trump the Appointer of Supreme Court Justices, is jumping ship and pulling the Republican Party overboard with him.
Trump recently said Florida’s 6-week abortion ban was too strict, a ban that mirrors restrictions in other states. He said his next administration would be “great for women and their reproductive rights.” He has urged the Republican Party to focus on winning elections, namely his election.
With that directive, the Republican National Committee changed its party platform, the annual statement of Republican policy aims. Since 1984, their party platform called for a constitutional amendment that would effectively ban abortion nationwide. That language is gone in the 2024 party platform.
Conservative Evangelical writer Peter Wehner wrote in “The Atlantic”:
The pro-life justification for supporting the former president has now collapsed.
David French, another conservative Evangelical columnist, says Trump weakened the pro-life movement and made the Republican Party pro-choice for political expedience. The pro-life activists that French knows now…
