Trump, Republicans play politics with abortion as baby murders increase
With the 2024 election just around the corner, Donald Trump and so-called pro-life Republicans have turned the abortion issue into a game of political football by taking the issue off the table even as the number of baby murders increase.
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the number of abortions in the US have increased according to a new study released by the pro-abortion Society of Family Planning (via National Review):
In the first three months of 2024, an average of 98,990 abortions were performed per month, according to a new study by the pro-choice Society of Family Planning (SFP), compared to 84,000 per month in the two months before the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in June 2022.
“I am expecting the number to plateau at some point. But with each report, we see the numbers increase, so we’re not at that plateau just yet,” Ushma Upadhyay, co-chair of SFP’s research project, #WeCount, and professor at the University of California, San Francisco said. “There continues to be a lot of unmet need that is being met in various ways.”
Telehealth services — by which doctors remotely prescribe patients abortion pills — are used in 20 percent of U.S. abortions. Before Roe was overturned, only 5 percent of U.S. abortions were administered via telehealth. In states that have restricted access to abortion, chemical abortions are convenient, cheap, and rising in popularity; chemical abortions accounted for 63 percent of all abortions in the U.S. in 2023, up 10 percent since 2020.
“As long as we keep seeing more states increasing restrictions, I think we will continue to see the abortion volume grow as people learn about telehealth,” Upadhyay said. (Emphasis mine)
Not only have the number of abortions increased since Roe v. Wade was “overturned,” the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute reported earlier this year that baby murder has reached the highest numbers we’ve seen in over a decade. According to the report, an estimated 1,026,690 abortions were reported in the formal health care system in 2023, resulting in the highest number measured in the United States in more than a decade. (Emphasis mine)
This should come as no surprise to my regular readers and listeners. I wrote before and after the Supreme Court decision that murdering unborn babies would continue because the writing was on the wall that Donald Trump and the Republican Party would use the Dobbs ruling to abandon the life issue in the name of political expediency.
There was no lack of hysteria and extremist rhetoric coming from the defenders of a woman’s so-called right to murder her unborn child following the Supreme Court ruling to “overturn” that right, but the sad reality is the court didn’t end abortion, it only ended the lie that it was a constitutional right.
Unfortunately for the million-plus number of babies murdered since the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, Trump and the Republicans have adopted a “Mission Accomplished” attitude concerning abortion while choosing to backpedal on the life issue in the hope of winning in November.
After decades of pretending to defend the unborn, Donald Trump and “pro-life” Republicans have abandoned faith, values, and science, choosing instead to push the idea that human life may or may not begin at conception and adopting the incrementalist approach to ending abortion by allowing unborn babies to be murdered as long as it was done in the first 15 weeks or so of pregnancy.
Take Arizona Republican candidate for US Senate and Trumpist, Kari Lake . . . please (apologies to Groucho Marx). Lake went from being “100% pro-life” as a gubernatorial candidate to promoting “rare and legal” abortion shortly after the Dobbs decision (via AP News):
In her most expansive comments on abortion since the ruling last month, Lake told a Phoenix talk radio host that it should be “rare and legal” before saying twice that it should be “rare but safe.” Ross Trumble, a spokesman for Lake, said she meant to say only “rare but safe.”
Recently, Lake moved even further left concerning abortion. On her campaign website, Lake now says she opposes a national abortion ban, preferring to leave the issue to states.
“Abortion is, as the courts decided, an issue for states to decide, not the federal government.”
If Lake’s flip-flop sounds familiar, it’s because it mirrors the position held by the Republican Party’s moral and spiritual leader, Donald Trump. Trump often touts himself as the “most pro-life president ever,” but that didn’t stop him from calling the six-week abortion ban signed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis a “terrible thing and a terrible mistake.”
Following that ban, pro-abortion groups were successful in getting unlimited abortion up to the moment of birth placed on the November ballot. If it passes, it will enshrine the murder of unborn babies into the Florida Constitution. Yet, when asked about how he would vote on the issue, Donald Trump dodged the issue while predicting the measure’s passage (via Tampa Free Press):
Speaking at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach on Thursday, the Republican presidential nominee said he would hold a future press event to announce his position on the proposal, known as Amendment 4.
“Florida does have a vote coming up on that, and I think probably the vote will go in a little more liberal way than people thought,” Trump remarked. (Emphasis mine)
Why, if Trump is truly the “most pro-life president ever,” would he put off giving his position? Or perhaps he did give it when he “predicted” passage of the baby-killing legislation because that is what he’s hoping for.
Sadly, so-called Evangelicals continue to support Trump despite his “new” pro-abortion” position. For instance, Fellowship of the Pharisees leader Robert Jeffress isn’t only giving Trump a pass, he’s openly defending Trump. When asked about Trump’s declaration that he won’t support an abortion ban, Jeffress said that Trump is “very pro-life,” but that his position is simply his way of “pointing out a political reality” concerning the unpopularity of abortion bans among many voters.
From the very beginning, it was crystal clear that overturning Roe v. Wade would do little to protect the unborn. But that hasn’t stopped Donald Trump and other so-called pro-life Republicans from playing politics with abortion, even as the number of murdered unborn babies is exploding.
The abortion holocaust continues…
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