….Many pro-life leaders are banking on the hope that a re-elected Trump would govern like he did last time—but most of those around Trump who influenced him for the better are gone. Vice President Mike Pence was the movement’s man in the White House, and constantly pushed pro-life priorities to a president who was always personally pro-choice (as his son Eric Trump explicitly confirmed in a recent interview). Pence and other pro-life influences are gone. Trump himself has been telling those around him that he will be a very different president if re-elected.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a pro-choice Democrat who will be on the transition team with (also pro-choice) Tulsi Gabbard if Trump wins, noted that he will assist in “picking who will govern” and that “people are going to see a very different President Trump than they did in the last term. . . . He’s said many interesting things to me about what he did wrong the last time.” Specifically, RFK Jr. noted, Trump regretted those he had surrounded himself with previously. “He said, ‘They’re always bringing this up to me and telling me I’m for Project 2025. I never read [it] until they started accusing me of it. That was written by a right-wing asshole,’ is what he said to me . . . he’s listening to a wider range of voices.”
That “range of voices” has narrowed, and pro-life leaders have found themselves out in the cold. I have long worried, for example, that Trump might weigh in on the abortion side of the upcoming referendums — which, on August 29, he did. An NBC reporter asked Trump about Amendment 4, the “Right to Abortion Initiative” on the November ballot in Florida. “I think the six-week [ban] is too short,” Trump replied. “There has to be more time. I’ve told them that I want more weeks. . . . I’m going to be voting that we leave more than six weeks.”
Amendment 4 would enshrine abortion until birth into the Florida Constitution. It reads: “No law shall prohibit, penalize, delay, or restrict abortion before viability or when necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider.” The amendment needs 60 percent to pass, and the gap had closed in recent weeks, with the pro-life movement pushing public support to several percentage points below the threshold. Thousands of unborn lives are on the line, and with a few notable exceptions, pro-life leaders pushed back hard, calling on Trump to reverse course.
Pro-life pressure worked. On August 30, Trump changed his mind, reiterating in an interview with FOX News that he still opposes a six-week ban, but would be voting against Amendment 4. “The Democrats are radical because the nine months is just a ridiculous situation where you can do an abortion in the ninth month,” he said. “You know, some of the states like Minnesota have it where you can actually execute the baby after birth, and all of that stuff is unacceptable. So I’ll be voting no for that reason.” Both internal sources and press reports indicate that Trump retracted his previous statement due to the backlash — highlighting just how essential it is for pro-life leaders to speak up now….
As JD Vance said in 2022: “If you’re not willing to stand up to the left on abortion, you can’t be trusted on anything else. The pro-life position is the pro-people position and I’m proud to be 100% pro-life.” Some of us still believe that.
From First Things
Abortion is the only issue that the Democrats have. They’re trying to use abortion as a wedge issue in this election. After all it was former President Donald Trump that appointed 3 Chief Justices that struck down Roe versus Wade. I pray that in the end that abortion ends in America. In God We Trust. God Bless America. Make America Great Again.
Nope. Now they have gun control and school violence as campaign issues thanks to the staged school shooting in Georgia, which coincidentally (NOT) happens to be a swing state that Trump must win in order win the election. The Deep State is controlling everything. From the Trump assassination attempt to this orchestrated GA school shooting, they are maneuvering to ensure that the Democrats win the election.
Glad to know there’s another lucid and informed American around these parts who realizes what’s going on and what’s at stake. We are being played by the commie freemasonic cabal and the illuminati who want to control everything.
Your theory has even more credibility now that we know the FBI had this kid, the shooter, on its watchlist since May. The government elites in the FBI knew they had an impressionable, unbalanced kid who could be manipulated and triggered when the moment was right. They sat on their asset until they thought the moment was right to swing the election in Georgia. Then they swayed him to shoot up the school.
The election is political theater. The outcome has been determined already.
At what point does one hate their country and its people so much that they would state that a school shooting that kills children and teachers was staged by the current administration? That is about as low as one can go.
If we want to make America great again, let’s start by avoiding all these conspiracy theories and start to behave as neighbors who trust each other and like each other and would not do harm to each other.
America is already great. There isn’t another country in the world that can compare to us. Our economy is margins ahead of any other nation. Our manufacturing is coming back at race-course speeds. Trillions of dollars are at work improving our infrastructure, including broadband, and rebuilding roads and bridges. Retail sales are up. Food and gas prices are starting to come down.
Our current argument is about Nationalistic Populism and Democracy. Let’s discuss that, and not QAnon scripts.
Those who pay attention to the real news, not the fake news, know that this country is controlled. That’s why they tried to assassinate Trump, because he will undo the Deep State cabal. Some of us think for ourselves instead of letting MSDNC do our thinking for us.
Bob One, look up what a false flag operation is. The Georgia school shooting was a false flag.
How does a 14 year-old, who can’t drive, transport a large, bulky AR-15 rifle to school, into the school through metal detectors, and deploy it without being seen by anyone?
The shooter had help from higher ups. It was a false flag operation to swing Georgia to Kamala Harris in the election.
I agree with Bob One.
Bob One, are you aware that the X profile of the shooter has been scrubbed? You can find remnants of it on the internet. The shooter identified as trans female. So, a mentally ill boy. A mentally ill boy whom the FBI knew had made threats. A mentally ill boy who could easily be manipulated by the FBI into carrying out those threats at a time deemed by the elites to be opportune.
Why is the truth being hidden from Americans? Our government has become our enemy.
Another school shooting in Baltimore today. Notice these are happening all in Democrat cities.
JD Vance is not 100% pro life. He should be denied Communion.
This is a valid point. Where are the bishops and conservative Catholics demanding that eucharistic discipline be enforced against JD? After he joined the Trump ticket, JD softened his prolife stance.
Doesn’t matter. Trump is going to lose.
If you were a Spaniard in 1936, would you side with the Nationalists or the Republicans?
So, you agree that Biden, Newsom and Pelosi should not be permitted to receive Holy Communion as well, correct?
This is not a matter of “opinion.” It is correct to follow Church teaching and Canon Law. And that’s all.
If you’re the same as “Deny Vance Communion,” I didn’t say it was a matter of opinion. I simply asked if you agree that pro-abortion Democrats should be denied Communion as well. Do you?
And, that’s all.
I am not the same as any other poster. I have always believed that Church leaders who refuse to accept and obey Church teaching and Canon Law are heretical to the Faith, and should be ousted. We take great care to instruct Catholic kids in the theology of the Holy Mass and Sacraments, and respect, love and obedience to Christ and to Church teaching, regarding proper reception of Holy Communion. All Catholic clergy who refuse to accept and uphold Catholic teaching and Canon Law should be ousted, and replaced by faithful clerics. That is common sense, to me. Faithful Catholic laymen– parents, grandparents, Catholic school teachers, Catechists, and others who teach the Faith, are so sick of this problem, of unfaithful, heretical Catholic clerical leaders!
The item needs 60% to pass. The poll trend indicates a vote short of that, but still with a majority.
Abortion is bad. It is worse if you believe that life begins at conception.
At six weeks of pregnancy, many women don’t know they are pregnant.
At six weeks, the fetus is about the size of a lentil.
The majority in the country don’t believe that life begins at conception, so it is hard to get no votes.
Most younger people believe there should be an exemption for pregnancy resulting from rape or incest. It is hard to get a no vote if the exception is not included.
Most people believe that there should be an exemption for saving the life of the mother, without forcing her to be on her deathbed before doctors can help her. It’s hard to get a no-vote without this feature.
Less than 1% of abortions occur after 26 weeks.
At some point we have to ask ourselves if we are willing to outlaw abortions with exceptions or end up with no law against abortion. Politics involves getting what you can get today and coming back tomorrow to get the rest of your wants. We may not like it, but that is how it works.
So which one of our ancestresses should have had an abortion because she was raped????? We all have them. I guess none of us have the right to be alive. On the other hand, doctors can be taught to deliver the child earlier, try to save it, and it can be adopted out if it survives, instead of burned to death by saline or torn limb from limb in an abortion, and the mother’s womb possibly punctured. Don’t punish the child for the father’s sin.
There is a way that leads to death, and a way that leads to life. Let us choose life. In our latter years we will not regret it, nor will we on Judgment Day.
I’m afraid you’re right on this one.
I have a great deal of respect for Mike Pence for his policy of never being alone with a woman who is not a family member, but if he approves of IVF (in vitro fertilization), he is not fully prolife. That might be a reason he left the Catholic Church. Just saying. Of course, children born from such procedures are as precious as any other children and not responsible for how they were conceived, but the process involves the fertilization of many eggs, to produce just the “right fertilized egg – aka baby”, and the others are frozen or thrown out, all of which are condemned by Catholic teaching. IVF opened a Pandora’s Box.
Trump has said repeatedly that he wants the states to decide this issue. Wish my church would look at the pornography, cheating and Marxist policies of the Biden/Harris administration instead of getting hung up on abortion. America has lost its moral compass and only when individuals care about their immortal souls will the abortion issue be settled. We’ve lost our way when social issues overcome our faith.
Now I read that celebrity exorcist Fr. Ripperger has consecrated the election to Mary. What is it with conservative prelates consecrating this and that to Mary? California was consecrated to Mary two or three times, and what good has it done? Things have only worsened.
This consecration of the election all but hands the election to Kamala, judging by the track record of consecrations.
As celebrity Tweeter James Martin prays,
“God, I know that I don’t have to get angry.
I don’t have to get worked up.
I don’t have to get depressed.
I just have to use my conscience and vote.”
Saint Teresa of Calcutta on this her Feast Day once said, “Abortion is the greatest destroyer of peace.” Mother Teresa was certainly very prophetic when you consider all the crime and murders going on in America today. With over one million abortions each year we must find another solution to solve this growing crisis in America today. Saint Teresa of Calcutta pray for an end to abortion. End Abortion Now! Adoption is the Option.
St. Mother Teresa was right. And why don’t people in a wealthy nation, with so many blessings and privileges, love children, and value their lives? And lovingly put them first– not selfish convenience, pleasure, and sins of the flesh? Why not have a strong campaign for premarital chastity, maternity homes to lovingly care for and help mothers with out-of-wedlock pregnancies and children, adoption services– and lots of love– and no abortion clinics at all? Why not strongly support and uphold Marriage between a man and a woman, and then starting your lifelong conjugal life with your “forever beloved spouse,” after your lovely Wedding, on a beautiful Wedding Night, then joyfully welcoming children, and establishing a lovely, warm family home? With your own families– parents, siblings, grandparents, and relatives helping you get started, as in days of old? That is what we need. Not the terrible statistics of about 2000 abortions daily in America, and about half of all U.S. births to a single, out-of-wedlock mother, her kids growing up in a troubled, fatherless home, and a troubled future for the kids, and more trouble ahead, for our country.
Recently, it was reported that there are about 2,548 legal abortions committed per day in the U.S., and Planned Parenthood reported that they commit about 1,076 abortions daily, which is a part of that high number. The numbers of abortions have also increased, with the deadly Abortion Pill. This is all a horrific evil in our country, and worldwide– child killing, in their mothers’ wombs.
Although not a practicing Catholic, the evangelical Mr. Pence seems to have been a Christian conscience and witness in the White House during the Trump/Pence years. Pray for Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance that they might value all human lives.
While, tragically, both now want states to decide who lives and who dies, Ms. Harris and Mr. Walz want no unborn babies and their mothers in the entire nation protected from abortion. My former political party has become the party of death, to be imposed nationwide, if they prevail.