This week on the Pro-Life World View, we take a look at the challenges ahead for the US pro-life movement.
Trump has put social conservatives in a dilemma
Edward Feser
Kamala’s abortion extremism
Ryan T. Anderson – First Things
The challenges ahead for the US pro-life movement could not be more grave
Catholic philosopher and blogger Edward Feser expertly unpacked the dilemma Catholic voters faced in the US presidential election this week, saying that a case could be made “for voting for neither Trump nor Harris”.
Donald Trump removed from the Republican party platform its commitment to the fundamental individual right to life of the unborn child, inserting instead positive support for individual states to pass legislation on abortion as well as policies that advance access to IVF, through which more embryonic babies are killed than through abortion each year. He has declared his support for the abortion pill to be accessible to mothers-to-be, which is responsible for more than 60% of US abortions. Trump supports same-sex marriage and has removed from the Republican party platform support for traditional marriage.
However, despite the “grave and lasting damage” Trump’s election would do for the pro-life cause, Feser, linking to an article in First Things, showed that he is “less bad” than Kamala Harris.
On the basis of moral principles expounded by His Eminence Cardinal Burke and His Eminence Cardinal Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, Feser argued that it was permissible for Catholics who hold to their faith to vote for Trump.
… [I]t is imperative for those who do decide to vote for him not to simply close ranks and quietly acquiesce to his betrayal of social conservatives. They must loudly, vigorously, and persistently protest this betrayal and do everything in their power to mitigate it.
Following the presidential election, the challenges ahead for the pro-life movement in the US could not be more grave, and there is much work to be done to protect human life from the first moment of existence at conception. to be done to protect human life from the first moment of existence at conception.
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