couldn't vote for Trump in 2016, needed 100% proof that Trump would be prolife, therefore gave half a vote to Hillary, sounds smart
Posted on 08/13/2020 10:31:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
In 2016 I couldn't vote for Donald Trump. I wrote about it. When people asked me about Trump vs. Clinton I responded, "You can't trust either one of them." When Trump claimed a pro-life platform, I didn't believe he'd follow through. I made a bet with my friend, Troy Newman (no relation), president of Operation Rescue and an ardent Trump supporter. If three standards were met, I would publicly recant my position. Trump would have to: reinstate the Mexico City Policy, place judges willing to overturn Roe v. Wade on the Supreme Court, and defund Planned Parenthood.
I didn't get everything I wanted.
The Mexico City Policy was a softball. Any Republican president would reinstate the policy that keeps the U.S. from exporting abortion abroad. Trump did so right away.
The appointment of pro-life judges continues to be uncertain, but I believe that if given an opportunity to overturn Roe v. Wade, the new appointees would do so, particularly if they could secure a 6-3 vote. And if the vote looked like 5-4 without his vote, even Chief Justice Roberts would vote with the majority and make it 6-3.
Defunding Planned Parenthood didn't happen, but not because of Trump. It failed because two Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, voted "no" when the measure came up.
Forced now to reconsider, my conclusion is that Trump has been the most pro-life president in my lifetime – including Ronald Reagan, who said many of the right things but accomplished relatively little. In virtually every area – both in word and deed – Trump has delivered for his pro-life constituents and, by extension, to innumerable innocent human beings in the womb who otherwise would have died. Trump's policy position has been to oppose legislation that attempts to advance abortion. Vice-President Mike Pence recently visited a pregnancy help clinic and, in 2019, addressed the March for Life. In 2020, Trump became the first president in U.S. history to address the March for Life – not via video, but in person. Trump's administration stood against the United Nation's move to promote abortion.
Though Trump did not completely defund Planned Parenthood, he allowed states to remove $60 million in Title X funding and Planned Parenthood's access to Medicaid money. While this figure represents only about 10% of the annual federal funding for the world's most notorious member of the abortion industry, given the chance, I believe Trump would entirely defund Planned Parenthood. He simply needs a Republican House and enough brave Republican senators to forward the bill to his desk.
With Democrat Party presidential nominee Joe Biden's pick of Senator Kamala Harris on August 11, the Democrats have – once again – demonstrated the opposite commitment. The Democrat Party has moved far from the position articulated (though never actually promoted) by Bill Clinton, that abortion should be "safe, legal, and rare." The Biden-Harris ticket will promote the new slogan of the abortion-choice movement: "Abortion on demand and without apology." They are completely in thrall to NARAL Pro-Choice America, The National Abortion Federation, and Planned Parenthood.
Under a Biden presidency, the United States would have the lamentable distinction as the world's biggest exporter of abortion. Even meager restrictions on abortion, including prohibitions on federal funding, would be swept away.
Like many Americans, Donald Trump's public persona often grates on me. I also understand that Trump supports rape and incest exceptions on abortion legislation. I pray his position is malleable. People close to him should explain the schizophrenia of believing that the circumstances of one's conception should be the determining factor regarding whether a human being has a right to life.
In 2016 I had no reason to believe that Trump would make good on his pro-life promises. But today I can evaluate a four-year track record. And compared with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' known policy positions, the choice is clear.
Some might argue that this makes me a "single-issue" voter. Please. Everyone is a single-issue voter when the policy at stake is sufficiently significant. It's wrong to intentionally kill an innocent human being. Abortion intentionally kills an innocent human being. The only conclusion we can reach is that abortion is wrong. Dead wrong.
The primary responsibility of government is to protect the most innocent and vulnerable from direct attack. Joe Biden rejects that obligation regarding human beings in the womb. President Trump's administration has demonstrated fidelity to it. He deserves support. He'll have mine in November.
Why should I bother to read about how some Never Trumper was wrong?
“Look at Me! I’m a doofus who was wrong! Let me tell you about how wrong I was!!”
Because it may give you information to help convert someone else to the cause.
If enough of them realize their error and vote Trump, it’s a good thing.
Until Trump, this country has not had a President that worked FOR AMERICA AND ITS PEOPLE for a long time. And now you do.
So the choice is easy if you want a REAL PRESIDENT. VOTE TRUMP OR VOTE A RUINED UNITED STATES. EASY CHOICE.
Maybe you should read the article and not spout off. He wasn’t a never Trumper. His concerns were about Trump keeping his word on abortion. Trump has and this guy is giving it up to Trump and admitting he was wrong.
It’s good to hear!
There is a point in time when the Judeans, with the enemy practically beating at their doors, chose to publicly repent of how they had held their fellow Israelites in bondage in violation of the Law.
As a consequence the Lord removed the enemy whereupon these same people again threw their former slaves back into slavey.
... and the enemy came back....
The point is that all that Trump is doing on abortion has been good but there is a huge danger in anything like taking back repentance that cannot be overstated.
Abortion is essentially the religious offerings of the Left and they are arguably more attached to protecting it than even defending homosexuality Romans 1:18-32 style. If they get power they will do everything to reverse anything Trump has managed to do and the condemnation that they bring on us collectively will not be anything any rational person would want.
It isn’t then that we need to keep going forward against abortion for 4 years but that we need to do so period.
After all, they already killed Scalia just to pd the Court numbers even when everyone was sure Hillary would win. What would they do, who would they kill, to reverse Trump?
This guy is a clown. Abortion is a big issue, but it is not the only big issue we are facing. There is nothing biden and camel-toe would do to make America better for 95% of the population. But, just like dems did in Colorado and California, they would change the voting system guaranteeing democrat victories forever. That would make America look like Venezuela in less then a decade. And don’t pin your hopes on a civil war restoring America. Most American’s no longer have that in them, and the ones that do will be put down immediately. JMHO
I guess old hacks can change tracks. 8>)
Good article. Sadly there will still be Puritans who complain “Trump hasn’t done enough” .
People converting over to the right side and describing why they did convert is a GOOD THING!
You may not need to read it but others need to.
Reminds me of #WalkAway.
We will need every vote come November. Welcome every vote. Welcome every Prodigal Son home.
Maybe YOU should re-read his first sentence. If that is not the very basis of a Never Trumper, then nothing is.
Mr. Newman...next time just listen to us.
Well said. Good news is always appreciated.
Mr. Newman, I would be embarrassed to admit to the world via your article that I was too damn stupid to see the differences between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Just their respective and immediate families alone should have been a clue for you.
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