Trump suggests pro-lifers have gone too far in Alabama with near-total abortion ban as he says he is pro-life but believes in abortion for babies conceived in rape and incest
By Julio
Severo
President Donald Trump has broken his
silence about Alabama’s new law imposing a near-total ban on abortions, saying
he is pro-life but believes there should be abortions for babies conceived in rape
or incest.
Pro-life leader Rebecca Kiessling, who was
conceived in rape, answered him on his Facebook,
“I
did not deserve the death penalty for the crime of my biological father. Ask
Rick Perry about his conversation with me and how my story pierced his heart he
said and that he could not look me in the eyes and justify the rape exception
any longer. I’m sure if you met any one of the 800 of us from Save The 1, you
would also have a hard time looking us in the eyes and then telling us that we
did not deserve equal protection.”
My answer to Trump was:
“Strongly
pro-life? Mr. President, if you can kill an innocent baby who has no guilt for
being conceived in rape and incest, why not kill all the others for other
stupid reasons? God calls you to save victims of oppression, and such babies
are such victims! Do you want someone killed? Target RAPISTS, not innocent
babies!”
Trump seems to have taken a more political
than pro-life approach. He continued: “We have come very far in the last two
years with 105 wonderful new Federal Judges (many more to come), two great
new Supreme Court Justices, the Mexico City Policy, and a whole new &
positive attitude about the Right to Life.”
The Mexico City policy blocks U.S. federal
funding for non-governmental organizations that provide abortion counseling or
referrals. It is applicable only to foreign nations, not to commercial abortion
in the U.S., which continues strong, profitable and legal.
“The Radical Left, with late term abortion
(and worse), is imploding on this issue. We must stick together and
Win for Life in 2020,” Trump continued.
“If we are foolish and do not stay UNITED
as one, all of our hard fought gains for Life can, and will, rapidly disappear!”
he wrote.
Nevertheless, the Trump administration has
had a very “modest” advance in the pro-life advance in the U.S. Planned Parenthood,
the main abortion provider in the U.S., receives about 500 million dollars in
federal grants, and last
year Trump approved this massive amount to Planned Parenthood. Later, Trump
cut 50 million dollars from the abortion provider, and many pro-life groups
praised the 10-percent cut as a big victory. But the real victory was for Planned
Parenthood receiving the other massive 90 percent, or 450 million dollars.
Yet, the first time Trump has directly weighed
in on an abortion issue was when Alabama passed its law last week, which would
ban abortion in all cases except with the mother’s health is threatened.
The law, set to take effect in six months,
does not penalize women who receive abortions, but would threaten doctors who
perform them with up to 99 years in prison.
Lawmakers in Indiana, Ohio, Louisiana and
Missouri have also advanced laws to severely restrict abortion.
Pro-life leaders hope that such court
challenges will make their way to the Supreme Court, and that the judiciary
will overturn Roe v Wade, the 1973 high court ruling that declared that to kill
unborn babies is a Constitutional right.
Trump is not the only prominent pro-life
voice to speak out saying that Alabama lawmakers went too far.
Christian televangelist Pat Robertson, a
staunch abortion opponent, called the Alabama law “extreme,” in spite of the fact
that his The 700 Club has already interviewed Rebecca Kiessling for two times
to speak her story about how she was conceived in rape and God has used her
powerfully to show the world that every baby has value in God’s eyes.
During the 2016 campaign, Trump secured support
from evangelicals who had been initially hesitant to vote for the bombastic,
twice-divorced billionaire by promising to appoint pro-life justices at the
highest court in the U.S.
His stated position on abortion two
decades ago was that he was pro-abortion.
“I’m very pro-choice,” Trump said in an
interview with Tim Russert in 1999. “I hate the concept of abortion. I hate it.
I hate everything it stands for. I cringe when I listen to people debating the
subject. But you still — I just believe in choice.”
However, by 2011 Trump said that he had
changed his position and was opposed to abortion.
During the 2016 campaign, Trump explained
in an interview that his position had changed after he had a heartfelt
conversation with a friend who had contemplated abortion. So the logical
conclusion is that if more pro-life leaders help him, he may abandon his pro-abortion
stance for babies conceived in rape and incest and, hopefully, enact stronger
laws against rapists, including capital punishment.
Yet, let us see how “extreme” is Alabama’s
pro-life law. It allows abortion when “the mother’s health is threatened.”
Why Pro-Lifers Must Oppose "Health of the Mother" Exceptions. At first glance, it
may seem heartless for anyone to oppose abortions committed in order to
preserve the physical or mental health of women. However, we must remember that
abortionists will interpret any loophole — even a “life of the mother”
exception — to mean abortion on demand.
Abortionists all over the world use
the definition of “maternal health” set by the World Health Organization (WHO): “A state of complete physical,
mental, and social well being and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity.” The U.S. Supreme Court defined maternal health to include “mental
health” in its United States v.
Vuitch decision (402 U.S. 62, 71-72 (1971)), and expanded this to say that
virtually all factors of any type are relevant to the mother’s health,
including “physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman’s age” (Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179, 192 [1973]).
Some pro-abortion judges have gone to
even more ridiculous extremes in their mad rush to prop up the abortion ‘right.’
Perhaps the most absurd example was provided by Judge John F. Dooling
when he overturned the Hyde Amendment. Dooling asserted on page 309 of his
opinion that “Poverty is a medical condition.” Most abortionists take these
definitions at face value, because they cover all possible excuses for abortion
throughout all nine months of pregnancy.
In my medical judgment, every
pregnancy that is not wanted by the patient, I feel there is a medical
indication to abort a pregnancy where it is not wanted. In good faith, I would
recommend on a medical basis, you understand, that, and it would be 100%… I
think they are all medically necessary…
Hodgson also stated the general
pro-abortion attitude towards abortion when she said “A medically necessary
abortion is any abortion a woman asks for.”
About the case of pregnancy of rape,
Clowes said,
From
an ethical and logical standpoint, the number of pregnancies from rape and
incest in most countries is simply irrelevant to the moral case against these
exceptions. A baby conceived through violence is as blameless and innocent as
one conceived in marriage, and is therefore deserving of the same protection.
Either all preborn babies are worth saving, or none of them are.
Pregnancy of rape or health’s risks were
the main strategies to legalize abortion in the United States, and the result
was, according Facts of Life: From 1980 to 2005, there was an annual median
number of 1,455,281 abortions. Mother’s life or health cases were just 0.36%. For
rape and incest, just 0.09%.
The way I see it: You have no guilt if
someone abandons a baby in your doorstep. But what are you going to do? Just
leave the child at the doorstep? No, you are going to take any necessary measure
to secure the well-being of the baby.
A woman raped and impregnated has no guilt,
and she is as victim and innocent as her baby is. What to do? To take any
necessary measure to secure the well-being of the baby and later adopt him or
her or make him or her available for adoption. There are thousands of couples
who would love to adopt a baby.
As far as abortion is concerned, only rapists
deserve capital punishment, not innocent babies.
Portuguese
version of this article: Trump sugere que ativistas pró-vida foram longe demais
no Alabama com a proibição quase total do aborto enquanto ele diz que é
pró-vida, mas acredita em aborto para bebês concebidos em estupro e incesto
Source: Last Days Watchman
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