Some of the nation’s most influential pro-life organizations are legitimately frustrated with the confusing abortion speech that plagued the 2024 campaign of former president Donald Trump. However, those who are committed to preserving pregnant living should concentrate their efforts on preventing the false ballot measures that threaten to destroy the most crucial and potent tool in the pro-life handbook: state safeguards.
Without a doubt, the GOP’s decision to end abortion finds a sizable portion of their electorate hanging out ( as well as the women and children they frequently claim to shield ). Liberals and abortion industry giants have the freedom to attack Democratic strongholds like Florida with their extraordinary pregnancy mission because Trump insists that abortion should remain left “up to the says.”
Trump’s “reproductive rights” language and Vance’s verification that the pair will reject national pro-life protections are truly reprimandable. But they should n’t be the ultimate focus of pro-lifers ‘ ire this November.
Roughly a dozen states are facing misleading ballot initiatives that promise to protect pregnancy. These proposed modifications, if passed in November, would prevent says from passing laws that hold abortionists responsible for the harm they cause to women and newborn children as well as incorporate pregnancy for any purpose in red state constitutions.
These vote measure campaigns are dangerous because they are successful despite having unknown terminology that can be simply interpreted to support abortion for any purpose and doubtful signature-gathering practices.
Time and time again, the pro-life activity has allowed abortion extremists to walk their ballot measure plans straight past their Republican-controlled parliament, administrators ‘ houses, and prosecutors general offices. As a result, every single one of the seven , position pregnancy elections introduced since , the fall of Roe v. Wade , have ended with enshrining the “right” to death preborn children in state governments.
These legal modifications, which properly basket state from legislating on abortion, contraception, assisted reproductive technologies, and the extreme transing of children, are not easily undone.
Instead of talking about these ballot measures, however, pro-life figureheads and politicos everywhere are postulating about Trump’s position on abortion. Some claim that the problem will be resolved by supporting Harris, the most extremist pro-abortion presidential candidate in history, while others claim that the solution can be found in simply withholding votes from Trump.
The movement’s sworn defense of protecting unborn life is only undermined by this coordinated effort to keep principled pro-lifers at home on November 5.
The pro-life movement’s goal has always been to end abortion. However, putting that goal on a federal abortion ban ( which is only possible now that Trump has won his first term ) and a federal abortion ban severely limits pro-life activists ‘ ability to win in states where abortion referendums are becoming a common practice.
The majority of Americans who oppose Democrats ‘ unlimited abortion plan should be made aware that dismembering babies through all nine months is an extremist position rather than, as Kentucky governor, extremist. Andy Beshear recently claimed, “loving your neighbor”. Yet, many Americans do not equate Democrats ‘ euphemistic calls for “reproductive rights” with late-term abortions , because pollsters and abortion activists twist the narrative.
Prevention and messaging are the true keys to preventing radical abortion amendments from being put on the ballot. National pro-life organizations run the risk of becoming too focused on smearing Trump to carry out the necessary work in those states that are vulnerable to Democrats ‘ schemes.
The pro-life movement wo n’t stand a chance in the 2024 election if Vice President Kamala Harris wins because pro-life activists who are upset about Trump wo n’t go to the polls. According to Federalist Legal Correspondent Margot Cleveland, Harris ‘ commitment to passing a federal law that usurps state-level pro-life protections and encroaches on court benches” will only further dehumanize the unborn, making it difficult to change the hearts and minds of Americans,” according to Cleveland.
Similarly, if the pro-abortion activists running deceptive ballot measure campaigns in nearly a dozen states succeed, as they have over the last two years, tens of thousands of babies in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, and South Dakota , wo n’t stand a chance either.
Since its beginning more than 50 years ago, the fight for life has been marred with compromise. GOP politicians have repeatedly failed to move the legislative branch forward in order to advance babies, offering only toothless statements and sporadic temper tantrums at congressional hearings. Even worse, some of them have turned to supporting Democrats ‘ anti-life schemes by encouraging practices that routinely place the unborn at risk. Yet, many top pro-life organizations continue to support them as advocates for the preborn.
Propagating that putting the most pro-life president in opposition to the most pro-life pro-choice pro-lifer presents an unprecedented moral dilemma for pro-lifers who are committed to advancing the fundamental goal of saving every unborn child from in-utero slaughter is not just disingenuous. It resembles a malicious plot to stifle voter interest in the ballot measure debates, which, if left unchecked, will determine without repercussions that an abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy is the new American standard.
The Federalist staff writer and host of The Federalist Radio Hour, Jordan Boyd. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordanian received her bachelor’s degree from Baylor University, where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.
