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But Dobbs\u2014and the abortion radicals who control the Democrat Party\u2014have turned the politics upside down.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By: Steven W. Mosher, originally published July 22, 2024, Population Research Institute<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On July 15th<\/sup>, delegates to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee adopted a platform<\/a> that stakes out a new position on abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The document echoes the view of its standard bearer Donald Trump:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe believe that the 14th<\/sup> Amendment to the Constitution \u2026 guarantees that no person can be denied Life or Liberty without Due Process,\u201d it affirms, \u201cand that the States are, therefore, free to pass Laws protecting those Rights.  After 51 years, because of us, that power has been given to the States and to a vote of the people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many pro-life leaders have signaled support for the new platform, including Marjorie Dannenfelser of the Susan B. Anthony List, who wrote<\/a>, \u201cIt is important that the GOP reaffirmed its commitment to protect unborn life today through the 14th Amendment. Under this amendment, it is Congress that enacts and enforces its provisions. The Republican Party remains strongly pro-life at the national level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not everyone agrees, of course.  Live Action\u2019s Lila Rose claims that the platform change will \u201calienate some of his most passionate supporters and will win exactly zero fence sitters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I believe this is a misreading of the political moment we find ourselves in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Committed pro-lifers\u2014among whom I count myself\u2014understand that Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em><\/a> was a legal earthquake that radically changed the political landscape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news is that fourteen states now have total bans on abortion.  Twenty-seven other states ban mid-term or late-term abortions.  More and more babies are alive today\u2014some 130,000 at the latest count\u2014who would otherwise have suffered a brutal death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But while pro-lifers celebrated\u2014and perhaps grew a little bit complacent\u2014those who favor abortion under any and all circumstances are angry and energized, not to mention increasingly well-funded and organized.  They are working hard to make the November election a national referendum on abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And why wouldn\u2019t they?  Since Dobbs became the law of the land, there have been seven state referenda on abortion, and in every single one of them\u2014even in Deep Red Kentucky\u2014the pro-aborts have prevailed. \u201cFreedom\u201d and \u201cliberty\u201d and the \u201cright to determine one\u2019s own life course\u201d were the deceptive synonyms used for unchecked abortion, and the individualistic impulse common to all Americans did the rest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To make matters worse, the \u201cfence sitters\u201d, namely, those who have never really thought about the abortion issue, are apparently breaking their way. Pew reports that, while 73% of white evangelicals believe abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, 86% of those who do not profess any religion disagree, arguing that it should be legal throughout all or most of the nine months of pregnancy.  Joining them are Black Protestants (71%), non-evangelical Protestants (64%), and Catholics (59%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, according to a 2023 Gallup poll, 52% of Americans now say that abortion is \u201cmorally acceptable,\u201d a record high, while 34% agree with the proposition that abortion should be \u201clegal under any circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of their recent successes\u2014and because they literally have no other issue to run on<\/em>\u2014the Party of Abortion continues to double down.  They want abortion without limits and they are willing to use the full power of government against anyone who stands in the way of their radical aims.  Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly mean nothing to them.  Neither does the rule of law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is only one reliably pro-life Democrat left in the U.S. Congress, Tony Cuellar, and he now finds himself under investigation by the enforcement arm of the Democrat Party, otherwise known as the FBI.  Kamala Harris, who may replace Biden as the Democrat nominee, goes around lying<\/a> that \u201cDonald Trump would ban abortion nationwide\u201d when he has specifically said that he would not.  The administration of which she is a part not only classifies pro-lifers as potential terrorists, but is also actually trying to terrorize them, arresting sidewalk counselors for imaginary crimes and throwing pro-life people into prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calling this banana republic behavior does not do it justice.  These tactics are more reminiscent of Marxist tyrannies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of this is to say that the Republican Party or its latest platform is perfect. While the pro-life movement, for many decades, has been allied with the Republican Party, it has not always been an easy relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only about half of Republicans share the view of pro-lifers like myself, that there is no cause greater than life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the upcoming election is no longer about whether we can protect all babies, but whether we can protect any at all or, indeed, our very Republic.  The Democrats are determined to crush the pro-life movement one way or another in the same way their abortionist allies crush the life out of unborn children.<\/mark><\/strong>  The Republicans will support our efforts to advocate for and protect the unborn in the fifty states, as well as the fundamental freedoms that allow us to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have reached a point in our nation\u2019s history where the fate of America\u2019s children is strangely tied to the fate of America itself as a constitutional republic.  Or perhaps it is not so strange after all that those who would deprive unborn children of life would, in the end, also seek to deprive the rest of us of our liberty and, thus, our happiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steven W. Mosher<\/strong> is the President of the Population Research Institute, as well as an acclaimed author, speaker. and internationally recognized authority on China and population issues.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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