The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts news release…
With the lamentable decision of President Donald J. Trump to embrace a states rights position on the killing of unborn children, the Republican media universe — especially the faux conservative libertarians of Fox News — is now peddling the party line that conservatives must expose the extremism of the Democrat Party on abortion and unite in opposition to Democrat supported late term abortions.
Sean Hannity, Jesse Walters, Kaleigh McEnany and Tomi Lahren are all hawking this proposition, telling us that this is something that all Republicans can agree upon.
It is a confidence game, of course, and an old one, that dates back to the first administration of George W. Bush, who beguiled the pro-life movement with his forever touted, but only tardily implemented (2007), partial birth abortion ban.
In November of 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, provided the latest figures on the gestational time of abortions in America.
In 2021 — the latest year for which figures are available — 93.5% of all abortions were perpetrated at 13 weeks or less, with an additional 5.7% performed between 14 and 20 weeks gestation.
Less than one percent of all abortions in the United States — (0.9%) — were performed at 21 weeks or later.
If conservatives fall for the obvious swindle of focusing on late term abortions, it means that while the Democratic Party will continue to support 100% of American abortions, the Republican Party, in contrast, will tolerate 99.1% of American abortions.
Citing polling data and referenda losses, Republicans are now telling pro-lifers that they must put aside their calls for abortion bans, so Republicans can be elected, in order to save the country.
They overlook however, a paramount reality. Four of the existential threats which menace America have a common origin.
The tsunami of illegal aliens, the failure to meet military recruitment goals, trillions of dollars of debt and the long term unsustainability of entitlements, all have a common denominator.
At 1.78 births per woman, America no longer has a reproductive birth rate.
The principal cause of this catastrophic circumstance is the destruction of pre-born life through abortion and abortifacient contraception (actually more through contraception than abortion).
If we are to save the country, and make it great again, then the first thing we must do is to stop killing our posterity in the womb.
