The greatest contribution President Donald Trump has made to the pro-life cause was appointing three justices to the U.S. Supreme Court who helped overturn Roe v. Wade (1973), a decision that made the “right” to an abortion the law of the land.
The court in Roe ruled that the U.S. Constitution conferred a “right of privacy” to women to kill their unborn babies. Our founding document neither states nor implies any such thing, and the current Supreme Court set the record straight.
Funding
President Trump recently ended federal funding for research that uses the tissue of aborted babies. He is also expanding the Mexico City Policy, which blocks federal funding to international NGOs that perform or promote abortion.
First Amendment
Our First Amendment freedoms of religion and speech are crucial to upholding our right to oppose and to speak against abortion. President Trump has protected the conscience and religious rights of medical providers who refuse to participate in abortions.
President Trump last June withdrew the Biden’s administration’s mandate to expand the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act to include abortion as “stabilizing care” in ERs.
Pro-life pregnancy centers also need protection. The Trump administration recently determined that an Illinois law which mandates pro-life pregnancy centers to refer pregnant women to abortion facilities is illegal.
CURE
We have so much to do and so little time to do it. As with anything, there is room for improvement. Pro-lifers are concerned about the expanded access to abortion drugs, for example.
The Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), along with other pro-life organizations, expressed (PDF) deep concern about the Food and Drug Administration expanding access to the abortion drug mifepristone, under what they call “outdated regulations that allow unrestricted telehealth and mail-order prescriptions for the drug.”
President Trump alarmed pro-lifers by calling for House Republicans to be flexible on the Hyde Amendment, which blocks federal funding for abortions, as lawmakers negotiate a deal on Obamacare subsidies.
“To be flexible on Hyde is to not have Hyde,” said Donald Eason, CURE president.
For information about abortion and black Americans, read a report CURE released last June called “The Impact of Abortion on the Black Community” (PDF), co-authored by Eason and Marty Dannenfelser, CURE’s vice president of government relations.
In an ideal world, all pregnant women would protect their unborn babies. In this world, we will continue to fight for the voiceless and vulnerable in the womb.
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