As Donald Trump seeks the Republican nomination for a third time, he is making clear that the alliance with pro-lifers is over.
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Section 1 of the 14th amendment reads, in part, with emphasis added.
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Trust the science. Human life begins at conception. A fertilized egg is a person, just in a different stage of development.
Trump is acting like Lincoln prior to getting elected in 1860. He was morally opposed to slavery but it wasn't politically expedient to say that right out in the open until he ran for President. However, he didn't call for the complete abolishment of slavery.
"I think Slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union."
In other words, he didn't want to see it spread any further but would would rather see the practice die out gradually. In the same way, Trump thinks he needs the vote of people sitting on the fence.
There is no doubt that, when he was in office, Trump was the most pro-life President we've ever had. He kept his promise and nominated conservative constitutionalists to the bench.
Now with all of his legal woes and watching the democrats steal the 2020 election he feels he needs to win over the independents. This is not a statement to defend him. It's just a reality.
Even after Lincoln took office and the civil war began it took him a year and nine months before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. Even then he was being politically expedient. He only freed slaves in the states that seceded from the Union. The border states, loyal to the union were allowed to keep their slaves.
Trump, like Lincoln, isn't going all the way and say he wants an outright ban on the practice. He might, wrongfully, believe that the constitution couldn't support an outright ban on abortion.
Now back to my quote on the 14th Amendment, which was preceded by one that prohibited slavery. Most politicians of the antebellum US weren't as polarized on the issue of slavery as the common people. The same is true today as most legislators and chief executives aren't as polarized as the man on the street.
It's true that some politicians then as now took the opposite ends of the spectrum. Today, as in the past, people seeking election and reelection want votes and they don't care who it comes from. So they are going to check and hold their cards close at the table. They hope to stay away from the issue by kissing babies in public bit secretly killing them when they get in office. Or they hope to denounce the practice but compromise in office.
I'm not defending Trump and what he said disappoints me. I would like to see the entire interview to know all of what he said. Was he taken out of context?
Even pro-lifers think that the states should decide because they misunderstand the constitution. The baby-killers don't have a problem understanding the constitution. They just don't like what it says.
If the day ever comes that the SCOTUS determines that a fertilized egg is a
person, then it's all over for the baby killers. They will want another civil war on that issue. Abortion, like the slavery issue, is not going away. Political expediency only draws the pain out over time and makes it worse.
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