Trump Prolife

Date: 
Sunday, October 18, 2020

Category:

Summary: 

Nationally: 

  • Appointed two Supreme Court Justices, and nearly two hundred Federal Judges - all of which have made an impact for the protection of human dignity in the United States.
  • Since being elected President, President Trump has called for the defunding of Planned Parenthood in each of his proposed budgets beginning in 2018
  • In 2017 President Trump signed H.J. Res. 43 into law, overturning a regulation enacted by the Obama Administration two days before President Trump took office.
  • In 2018, under President Trump’s administration, the OCR created a new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division to ensure compliance with the enforcement of laws that protects the free exercise of religion and conscientious objection in healthcare.
  • In May of 2019, the Trump administration issued a rule that gave health care workers who conscientiously opposed providing “services” such as abortion, sterilization, or assisted suicide in the course of their work the ability to hold fast to their conscientious objections.
  • In 2019, the Trump administration restricted the use of human fetal tissue procured from abortions in medical research.
  • On June 12, 2020 the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Health and Human Services issued a final rule that revises the interpretation of this section of the ACA, primarily redefining the meaning of “on the basis of sex” to mean discrimination based on the biological sex of the individual, and nothing more. (Planned Parenthood was attempting to expand this to meaning to include sex discrimination.)
  • Expressed support for banning abortion overall, except for cases of rape, incest or danger to the mother's life.
  • 2018 Vice-President Pence addressed the March for Life, 2019 President addressed participants in March for Life.

Internationally:

  • President Trump’s administration has protected and promoted human dignity through policies that are pro-life. Such actions include joining twenty-four countries in joint statements before the United Nations General Assembly and other international bodies stating that there is no international right to abortion;
  • After taking office, President Trump reinstated the Mexico City Policy, which prevents approximately $9 billion of foreign aid from being used to fund abortions internationally Renamed the “Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance” Policy
  • Funding for the U.N. Population Fund was ended by the Trump administration because the Fund “supports, or participates in the management of, a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.”
  • Enacted by Congress in 1985, the Kemp-Kasten amendment prohibits United States funds from being given to an organization or program that supports or participates in a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization
  • Planned Parenthood appears to confirm that the United States funding of UNFPA would fund worldwide abortions and affirms that President Trump’s decision to not fund UNFPA is a step in the right direction for the protection of life worldwide.

As for Biden, who self-identifies as a Catholic, the comparison ignores or quite possible intentional omitted several points:

  • Opposes the Born Alive bill.  Just in case you are not aware of what this bill does… It mandates a doctor save a baby’s life when an abortion is unsuccessful.  
  • To protect a woman's right to choose and fight to keep access to abortion legal. 
  • Wants to pass a federal law that protects a woman's right to have an abortion - that's something that more liberal states like New York have moved towards.
  • The Democratic candidate has also expressed support for repealing the Hyde Amendment, which blocks taxpayer money from being used for abortions except in cases of rape, incest, or danger to the mother.
  • As the presidential nominee announced his support for abortion “under any circumstance,” staking out an extreme position on the issue. 
  • Support homosexual marriage & birth control.