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By: Steven Mosher, originally published on September 12, 2024, The Federalist<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Donald Trump and J.D. Vance try to win over swing voters, some pro-life leaders are busy dispiriting pro-life voters.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this moment in American history, when life is on the line, when we are just under 60 days from Election Day, it is political insanity to attack Donald Trump on the pro-life issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, I am not going to imply that Lila Rose is a communist, as James Lindsay\u00a0did<\/a>. But to suggest that the Trump-Vance ticket does not \u201cstand for pro-life principles,\u201d and that pro-lifers should withhold their votes, as Lila\u00a0did<\/a>, is equally outrageous. In an\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0with Politico published on Thursday, Lila Rose said she \u201cwould not vote for Harris or Trump\u201d if the election were held today and said there are \u201cother candidates\u201d and even \u201cwrite-in candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such comments are a priceless gift to Kamala\u2019s campaign. Expect interviews on CNN, MSNBC, and other regime media to follow as they use Rose to demonize Trump and demoralize pro-life voters into staying home on Election Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone needs to remember that this is the pro-life president who spoke at the March for Life<\/a> rally in Washington, D.C., had many pro-lifers in top positions, and pursued a host of pro-life policies<\/a> at home and abroad. This is the pro-life president whose Supreme Court appointments overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em>. The federal government is no longer forcing the states to allow mothers to murder their children, and 22 have partial or complete bans in place<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, this is the once-and-future pro-life president who is all that stands in the way of Kamala Harris. If she gets into office, she will pack the Supreme Court with pro-abortion justices, Roe v. Wade <\/em>will be brought back, and abortion on demand up to \u2014 and beyond \u2014 birth will be the law of the land for another two generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may not like Trump\u2019s or Vance\u2019s recent rhetoric on the issue. But bear in mind that they are responding to attacks from the Kamala bots in the regime media, whose game is to hide Kamala\u2019s abortion extremism by turning the accusation on Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just to be clear, I bow to no one in my defense of the unborn. I was in an operating room in Communist China 44 years ago when nearly full-term babies were being delivered by cesarean section and killed by lethal injection. I have been pro-life ever since. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I successfully fought to defund the UN Population Fund because of its involvement in China\u2019s one-child policy and other coercive programs around the world in 1985 \u2014 and through the last five presidential administrations<\/a>. I helped implement<\/a> the Mexico City policy, which forbids taxpayer dollars from going to foreign nongovernmental organizations that promote, perform, or lobby for the legalization of abortion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have helped thousands of pregnant women<\/a> who were fleeing forced abortion and sterilization to escape from China and seek political asylum in the United States or elsewhere. My organization, Population Research Institute, played an instrumental role in researching and drafting the Tiahrt Amendment, which forbids taxpayer dollars<\/a> from going to any \u201creproductive health\u201d project overseas that involves coercion<\/a>, bribes, experimental methods, or violates informed consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the practical politics of the matter are plain: Anyone who is still attacking Trump this close to the election is dispiriting the base, giving quotes to the opposition, and \u2014 it must be said \u2014 making Kamala Harris\u2019 election more likely.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is that what Lila Rose \u2014 or any pro-lifer \u2014 wants? Does anyone (besides Kamala) want pro-life voters so demoralized that they will wash their hands of the whole nasty business of politics, declare a pox on both their houses, and stay home on election day? Because that is the political effect of her reckless words. Whether she knows it or not, Rose is urging the pro-life movement to commit political suicide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attacking Trump at this juncture is like telling the Union troops at the Battle of Gettysburg that Abraham Lincoln is not really committed to ending slavery. It is like telling American troops on the eve of D-Day that General Eisenhower picked the wrong beaches to land on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now I hear people say that to remain silent in the face of Trump\u2019s moderate rhetoric would be \u201cto participate in the coverup of the horror of abortion.\u201d Really?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By delaying the Emancipation Proclamation until 1863 did Lincoln \u201cparticipate in the coverup up of the horror of slavery during the first three years of the Civil War?\u201d By not demanding that Gorbachev \u201ctear down this wall\u201d until 1987 did Reagan \u201cparticipate in the coverup of the horror of communism\u201d by not speaking sooner?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you really want to stop the horror of abortion \u2014 and I do \u2014 knock on doors, register voters, and spread the word that Kamala Harris thinks that every inconvenient pregnancy should result in a dead baby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those who help put Trump back in office will have a seat at the table. They will have President Trump\u2019s and Vice President Vance\u2019s ears. They will be able to push for pro-life policies and recommend committed pro-lifers for positions in the administration. Those who engage in character assassination from behind their keyboards will be ignored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just to be clear, the Republican platform<\/a> is still pro-life, as it has been since 1984<\/a>, although it could be stronger. Donald Trump is still the most pro-life president since abortion became a national issue, although he could be more resolute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We need to pray as hard as we can for Trump and Vance\u2019s complete conversion on the life issue. And we must work as hard as we can to get the most pro-life president in my lifetime back in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steven W. Mosher is the president of the Population Research Institute and the author of “Population Control: Real Costs and Illusory Benefits.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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