Guest Post by Pro-life Leader Frank Pavone, National Director, Priests for Life
The headlines are all about Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance predicting on a Sunday morning talk show that, if re-elected, President Donald Trump will veto a national bill banning abortion.
As is often the case with legacy media, they got the question wrong.
In the current political climate, such a pro-life bill is unlikely to make it to Trump’s desk. Congress lacks the political will, and the filibuster creates a 60-vote threshold in the Senate.
So asking questions like NBC’s Kristen Welker is setting up a scenario that has no reality.
Another unlikely scenario is a Democrat-controlled Congress sending Trump the Women’s Health Protection Act, a radical piece of legislation that would repeal every pro-life law in the country.
I wonder why they didn’t ask about it.
I am still waiting for the interview where the media asked about the real pro-life measures that will be in the power of the President from the first day, everything he did in his first term. For example:
- Will you reinstate Mexico City’s expanded policy, which effectively prevents US tax dollars from flowing to abortion profiteers abroad?
- Will you reinstate the rule that prohibits any organization that receives Title X funds for family planning from discussing abortion with clients?
- Will you continue to elect federal judges who understand that the right to life is fundamental to our Constitution?
- Would you have the United States re-sign to the Geneva Consensus Declaration that strengthens life?
- Will you withdraw the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), which peddles the ideology of abortion in 150 countries?
- Will you restore the office of Conscience and Religious Liberty in the Department of Health and Human Services?
But, of course, the Trump-hating media is not interested in making the President seem reasonable to pro-life and pro-choice people, by reminding them that he supports pro-life measures that most Americans also support.
Anti-Trumpers don’t want to remind pro-lifers of what they’ve done, because they might encourage rather than suppress pro-life voices.
We already have the tools we need to change public policy in Trump’s second term to protect the unborn.
We need freedom of speech, so we can educate people on abortion; freedom of religion to enable the church to protect babies; freedom of assembly to allow pro-life marches, rallies, protests and prayer vigils; and, importantly, there are pro-life laws, which actually keep some money away from the abortion business and protect some babies.
These tools are already in our arsenal, but Democrats want to take them away from us. They throw peaceful pro-lifers in prison, censor pro-life speech, try to close down pregnancy centers and impeach pro-life politicians.
President Trump is the best person to protect the tools needed to end abortion. We don’t need him to give pro-life speeches or commit to signing bills — like a national ban on abortion — that will never cross his desk.
We must vote for him, because if the Democrats have their way, the pro-life movement will have no political freedom to protect. any baby.
Yet here we are, over the weekend and today, arguing on social media and in the press about whether we can support President Trump because, as some say, he is “backing away” from his pro-life position.
In reality, the choice before us is not between President Trump and a better person. It’s between President Trump and someone worse. It’s between President Trump, who makes it possible for the state to protect babies, as it does now and will continue to do, and Kamala Harris, who wants to eliminate the state’s ability to protect babies by making abortion the foundation. constitutional rights.
I often say that mothers do not choose abortion because they have the freedom to choose, but because they have no freedom and no choice. In this election, if we want to preserve our freedom to preserve life, there is only one choice.
