While Donald Trump clearly has many moral failings which cannot be dismissed without concern, we believe the pro-life and pro-family policies that he campaigned on represent a significant victory for the culture of life. Donald Trump’s election to the Presidency of the United States was in large part, due to the overwhelming support of evangelicals who comprise 26% of the electorate. Right to Life believes that for this group and for many other electors, the protection of the unborn and support for traditional family values was a pivotal factor in deciding who to vote for.
More than 80% of white born-again Christians voted for Donald Trump. In contrast Hillary Clinton, who was a strong supporter for killing the unborn, received only 16% of the white evangelical vote, the lowest support ever received by a Democratic candidate. There is now a strong pro-life Republican Executive, Senate and Congress. Exit polls revealed that 52% of Catholics voted for Donald Trump and 45% for Clinton.
Donald Trump has pledged the following action to halt the war against women and the unborn:- We can only hope that he will follow through on his pledges in respect to the defence of life.
Legislation to defund Planned Parenthood. An organisation which is responsible for the killing of 7,000,000 babies since the passing of Roe v Wade in 1973. This organization spent $38 million in its unsuccessful bid to have their patron Hillary Clinton elected to the White House. Planned Parenthood receives $554 million in federal funding each year.
He will sign the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act prohibiting the killing of the unborn after 20 weeks, when the child certainly can feel pain.
He has pledged to appoint solidly pro-life justices to the Supreme Court who will faithfully uphold the constitution and not adjudicate from the bench. With the appointment of two or more pro-life justices there would be every prospect of overturning the notorious Roe V Wade decision of the Supreme Court of 1973. Since the passage of that legislation more than 58 million unborn children have been killed in their mother’s wombs.
America will also, again with Trump’s support, be able to permanently defund the UN Population Fund controlled by Helen Clark. The UN’s Population Fund has been a supporter of China’s program of forced abortions and sterilizations.
With Trump’s support the Mexico City Policy will be written into permanent law. This will prohibit non governmental organizations {NGOs} that receive federal funding from promoting or lobbying for the legalization of abortion in any other country.
Ken Orr
Spokesperson,
Right to Life
While we can take some consolation from that, *if* Trump does stay loyal to a pro-life agenda, there’s also the matter of what happened in Colorado on election night- namely, the success of a pro-euthanasia referendum in that US state.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/09/501476275/colorado-voters-accept-right-to-die-measure
“Colorado became the sixth state to pass a measure allowing terminally ill patients to obtain life-ending medications.
The ballot measure allows adults with six months or less to live the option to obtain prescription medication from a doctor and administer it themselves. The measure passed with about 65 percent of the vote, according to The Denver Post.”
“The measure requires that people “make two oral requests, separated by at least fifteen days, and a valid written request to his or her attending physician.” It also requires that people be capable of taking the medication unassisted, and stipulates that patients can rescind a request for life-ending medication at any time during the process.
The law protects doctors and pharmacists from prosecution for prescribing or dispensing such medications.”
“John Daley of Colorado Public Radio has reported that Colorado’s proposal is modeled after Oregon’s law. “In both, two doctors must determine a patient is mentally capable of making the choice and isn’t under undue influence or coercion,” he said.
[Oh, really?!!- Rhona]
What I am concerned about are the implications of this horrific vote. Colorado has a large and politically active evangelical population, and Colorado Springs is a major evangelical lobby group nexus. Yet the vote passed by a two thirds margin.
Very good point Rhona. We know that there have been abuses in Oregon and in Holland and Belgium it is rife.