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.
What do you care?
You’re a liberal pro abort.
“He wasn’t a never Trumper. His concerns were about Trump keeping his word on abortion.”
It’s a distinction without a difference.
You could have principled objections to Trump during the primaries and not be a “Never Trumper”. I did. A lot of people did.
However, when it was down to Trump vs. Hillary, if you decided that you couldn’t vote for Trump, you were telling everyone that you actually preferred Hillary for President. That made you, for all intents and purposes, a “Never Trumper”.
I think it’s a bad idea for Democrats to procreate. We feed, they breed.
I suppose God won't listen when you repent your sins.
One amazing thing I’ve noticed: the correlation between being pro-life and being solid on almost every other issue is extraordinary.
I don’t know but I suppose it’s because you have to be an independent thinker and have backbone to defend life these days, those characteristics help you navigate most other issues pretty well.
Because it’s a good model for FReepers who will turn out to have been wrong about a lot of stuff.
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Why not! Welcome him back into the fold !!!
Be a gracious winner.
When did that become an irreversible trait? He recognized his earlier mistake and is now on our side, isn't that what matters?
You should rather be grateful that God moves mountains....and he still does and will.
It was a pleasure reading that......
His pro-life stand was the final factor in my decision to support him.
I was for him before that because he was not a career politician, but during the third debate when he made that clear commitment to the pro-life position, that did it for me.
Additionally, the economy was doing well, judges are being appointed, the wall if being built, he called for a national day of prayer for the corona virus outbreak, and he’s very pro-Israel.
Well, there’s enough there for me to support him again. So no, I’m not a single issue voter. He’s done enough that I’d support him over any dem liberal commie any day of the week without giving it as second thought.
> “Like many Americans, Donald Trump’s public persona often grates on me.”
This is a programmed mantra of weak self-declared Republicans. When challenged on such assertions, they struggle to make a case.
Trump’s general transparency includes his locker room expressions and emotionally justified language that Americans understand and identify with. Those arrogant asses looking down their noses at the American electorate think of themselves too highly and are forced eventually to admit their mistakes as this never-trumper has done.
Yes, Trump is pro-life, the most pro-life President in our lifetimes. Yes, he’s conservative. Yes, he’s honest. We don’t care if he acts like a baseball manager in the dugout muttering expletives at an empire who can’t call it right. He’s real to us, he has grit and we’re not going to let effeminate tongue twisters and shrill harridans dominate our social dialog.
If a politician doesn’t protect the life of a baby what makes you think they give a rats behind about anything you want?
So there was Trump who said he would defend the unborn and Hilary who was openly open-abortion and said she would see that nothing ever would limit abortions. And since he wasn’t sure Trump was telling the truth he allowed Hilary to seek election without his own opposition. Yeah, that makes sense.
That’s the sort of “principled stand” that helps the RATs every time.
This single issue crap is a disease. Yeah. Trump wasn’t particularly pro-2nd amendment either. So gun owners should have let Hilary run without their opposition even though she promised strict gun control.
Morons.
Marc Newman disgusts me. I voted for TRUMP as opposed to a Clinton..
Now I am glad I did, and will vote for TRUMP again come November!!!
You jest, of course, since Hillary was known to be 100% pro-abortion.
This type of voter needs to learn that when it comes to voting for the lesser of what they calculate is two evils, it is in their personal best interest and that of those they care for to vote against the candidate that is most likely to cause the greater damage to our country.
I never said it was irreversible, did I?
I’ve seen this with a lot of Christians. They could never vote for someone like Trump who is so rude, divisive, the whole litany. The problem being that they get their news and analysis from the alphabet networks and don’t see the depravity of the people he is up against.
The point of this article is that a lot of these people have started to come around. They’ve seen that he is solid. He keeps his word. They’ve seen the accusations against him come to nothing. And at some point they do figure out that his enemies are really bad people. Most “never Trumpers”, especially those of a religious persuasion, have come around. The well known “never Trumpers” I always suspect of being bought and paid for, and they aren’t going to come around, and you couldn’t trust them if they did.
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