As LifeNews reported, in a weekend interview, Trump called a heartbeat law protecting babies from abortion a “terrible mistake,” earning scorn from pro-life advocates who say Trump can’t be the nominee if he seriously opposes pro-life legislation to protect unborn children.
The DeSantis campaign responded on X, formerly Twitter, with a post of the interview and it said:
Trump says he will compromise with Democrats on abortion so that they’re nice to him: “Both sides are going to like me.” Then he says it’s “a terrible thing” babies with heartbeats are protected in Iowa, Florida, and South Carolina. Ron DeSantis will never sell out conservatives to win praise from corporate media or the Left.
DeSantis’s communications director Andrew Romeo also responded to the Trump interview.
“We’ve already seen the disastrous results of Donald Trump compromising with Democrats: over $7 trillion in new debt, an unfinished border wall, and the jailbreak First Step Act letting violent criminals back on to the streets. Republicans across the country know that Ron DeSantis will never back down.”
In a new interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, the former president denounced Florida’s heartbeat law protecting unborn children from abortion after six weeks when their heartbeat can be detected, calling it “a terrible thing” and “a terrible mistake.”
Trump also refused to commit to supporting a national law to at least protect babies from abortions starting at 15 weeks.
NBC’s Kristen Welker asked Trump: “If a federal ban landed on your desk, if you were reelected, would you sign it – at 15 weeks?”
“Are you talking about a complete ban?” Trump asked.
“A ban at 15 weeks,” Welker said.
“Well, people are starting to think of 15 weeks, it seems to be a number that people are talking about right now,” Trump said.
“Would you sign that?” Welker pressed.
“I would sit down with both sides and I’d negotiate something, and we’ll end up with peace on that issue for the first time in 52 years,” Trump said. “I’m not gonna say if I would or I wouldn’t….”
From LifeNews
This is a make or break issue.
You can’t mediate on abortion. You’re either pro life or you’re not. There is no half measure.
Pro life is from conception to a natural death. Pray the Rosary for this intention.
Any politician who insists on being an abortion hardliner will be unelectable to national office. Trump is correct. While personally you can be opposed to any and all abortions, as a political matter an elected official has to grasp what is possible. What DeSantis and other Republican governors can accomplish in their own states cannot be extrapolated to national laws without making some adjustments or compromises. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Prolife fanatics don’t seem to understand that. If you call Trump evil or a traitor because he’s assessing or explaining the realities of passing legislation in the federal government, you don’t understand politics.
correct: I don’t like the term Prolife fanatics. They are simply people that care about life from conception to a natural death. The impossible could become possible if America prays and converts.
Big if.
Stephen Douglas saw himself as a mediator on slavery. The Republican Party was founded to abolish slavery. Lincoln and others never lost sight of that goal, even though they had to compromise along the way. When they started the party, they certainly didn’t have the votes to stop abortion. But, that didn’t mean they compromised on the goal. They articulated it clearly and maintained their goal of abolishing slavery. This was similar to William Wilberforce who fought against overwhelming odds to abolish the British slave trade and whose righteous cause eventually prevailed. No one is saying that a prolife candidate has to make abortion front and center in his or her campaign. But, he or she should share with the public their eventual goal regarding abortion or other issues. Democracy is, is part, about debating these things.
Sadly, it seems, if Mr. Trump is again elected, outlawing abortion is no longer a goal of his.
Fred Douglas: Wonderful post. Anything is possible if you are fighting for something that is just. Saving the unborn is just and priority number one for America today. Lincoln and William Wilberforce we need that kind of a leadership to end the scourge of abortion today.
I have tried to make the point over the years that outlawing abortion has never been a goal of mainline Republican politicians. It is, as others have pointed out, not feasible as a political position. At least Democrats have been honest about that. It is up to Christian women to choose life.
Your Fellow Catholic: If they could end slavery in America and the British Empire they could end abortion in America if there is a resolve and will. Nobody ever thought you could strike down Roe versus Wade but they did. Pray the Rosary for an end to abortion in America.
Slavery was ended in the United States only with Civil War. It took more than “resolve and will.” It took fighting. A war. A bloody war. A bloody war that beat the slave states into weakness and submission.
Why are you making this a partisan issue? Like slavery, it’s a human rights issue. It’s not even (solely) a religious issue.
It seems you’re pro-choice on abortion. Is that correct? (“It is up to Christian women to choose life.”)
Is it up to agnostic or Jewish women to choose to kill their babies?
Should it be up to slaveholders to choose liberty or slave labor? Christian slaveholders might release their slaves, while others might not.
Is enslaving or killing an innocent person tolerable in your mind?
Lincoln, like His Britannic Majesty King George III before him and President Trump after him, used a social issue as a means to an end. Lincoln initially supported the Corwin Amendment to deter the Southern states from seceding. Then Lincoln rejected the emancipation proclamations of General John Fremont in 1861 and General David Hunter in 1862. He accepted the admission of West Virginia as a slave state in 1863 after issuing his own emancipation proclamation earlier that year which exempted those areas which the Union already controlled. Today slavery exists as “human trafficking” and it is epidemic. The 13th Amendment also includes an exception for involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime; ironically one can see privately operated prisons using such labor. But whereas trafficking victims have a chance of escaping their plight, aborted children have no such hope if their defenders choose to “compromise”.
Salesman talk.
He is a salesman and he stuck his finger in the political wind. If Mr. Trump wants to be a serious mediator and thinker, why won’t he debate other candidates?
It’s not just on abortion. He has betrayed marriage (and thus children and families). See for yourself with what his Catholic wife posted:
https://twitter.com/LogCabinGOP/status/1321882381033328650?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1321882381033328650%7Ctwgr%5Ed30fd85278849707d77787d3c74f572a3c8aa9ca%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.the-sun.com%2Fnews%2F1735916%2Ftrump-lgbtq-rights-gay-marriage-views%2F
I’m not a “never Trumper,” but I am a “only second to the last choice” vote for Mr. Trump. Our nation can do better than a choice between Mr. Trump and Mr. Biden.
Trump stepped up to the plate and has done more for the Pro-Life movement and moving this country to a pro-life culture. During the last election the Pro-Life people did not come through as President Trump had thought, so now he’s taken a more moderate stance on the Pro-Life platform. He didn’t get the support he wanted, and we disappointed him. How many of us went door to door and asked people to vote for Trump? It is scary because men don’t want to take responsibility for there actions. They would rather kill the baby than take the responsibility.
You can say that Trump is an opportunist, or he was pandering to the Pro-Life movement. At the same time he wants us to step up and get out the vote. He gave us a voice. Now that the Lion has roared, we must stand up all the taller. Stop blaming this man who is being persecuted for giving Pro-Life voters a voice. None of the other presidents came to the March for Life! We must challenge Trump to be pro-life, but we must come through. Are we going through what Trump is going through? They Left is beating him down, are we going to beat him down also? He stood for us, will we stand for him?
Why being pro-life is important. If we deny the right to life to any human person, then that right to life can be denied us. We are born with those inalienable rights, Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I believe this issue will lead to civil war, just as slavery did. I am not in favor of a war, and I will do whatever I can to prevent a war, but taking innocent life is wrong, and denigrating the human person is evil. The more we allow abortion, the more willing humanity accepts this abomination the closer we come to destroying the human race. We see our neighbor as disposable, willing to kill him, thinking it will solve our problem making our lives more comfortable , safe. How convenient, until it happens to us.