Trump’s Unwavering Fight for Life

Donald Trump’s first term in office cemented his reign as the most pro-life President ever. Now the greatest ally of the unborn faces unwarranted attacks from you guessed it - the establishment right

Desperate times call for desperate measures. If your name isn’t Donald Trump, and you find yourself down by 30-50 points most polls for in the GOP Primary, you best be sounding the alarms and leaving it all out there on the playing field.

The abortion debate is being resurrected on the 2024 Presidential campaign trail as another low-ball tactic to try and find a chink in the armor of the presumptive GOP nominee, Donald Trump.

In comments Trump made in a recent interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker, Trump refused to place a number on the amount of weeks he’d settle on when addressing the topic of abortion as the President of the Untied States. When Welker pushed back on him, Trump reiterated the need for negotiations and reminded her that as President, Trump governs over all Americans not just the pro-life delegation of the Republican Party.

This triggered those within the community and other candidates in the race who are down by such a large margin in the primary that they can make more unilateral statements because their voice and opinion mean very little at this point because the race is essentially over aside from waiting for the primary dates to occur and where Trump holds a commanding lead in them all.

But this raises a bigger question as to why the topic of abortion now, rather than last year is being ushered to the forefront of most cable news programs and becoming the center of debate?

It’s clearly because a large majority of the primary field has yet to release a complete and itemized policy platform and most wait in the wings anticipating that Donald Trump’s legal issues will at some point catch up with him and create more a level playing field for those running underneath him in what we call the “fake primary.”

It’s topics like abortion and even the transgender debate that candidates in the Republican field are trying to hit Trump on, mainly because there is no concrete or correct answer to theses items and because no matter what Trump decides to stand on regarding these issues, the losing candidates can just run to the right of that because in the greater scheme of things, they’re not winning the nomination so so really cares what their position is.

In 2015, Donald Trump ran as a pro-life candidate who would be an ally to the community and work alongside the anti-abortion crowd to protect the sanctity of life better than any President has done before. While many ran before Trump with promises of pushing the Supreme Court on cases like Dobbs or mulling with Congress over national abortion bans (after a predetermined number of weeks) no President prior to Trump was ever able to follow through in the way he was with seeing Rowe v. Wade finally overturned once he left office.

It’s factually accurate to declare Donald Trump the most (openly) pro-life President in our lifetime if not ever, and when you look at the results that the 45th President achieved, it ain’t even close.

It was through the three conservative judges he would nominate; Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Comey Barrett who would see Trump’s promise kept and for the fifty year old ruling to be washed away out of existence.

In addition, Trump reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy, he issued a landmark pro-life rule to govern the use of Title X taxpayer funding, and Trump notified Congress that he would veto any legislation that weakens pro-life policies or that encourages the destruction of human life.

During the General Assembly at the United Nations, Donald Trump made clear that the global bureaucrats have no business attacking the sovereignty of nations that protect innocent life.

Trump’s dedication and openness to unwaveringly protecting the unborn is well documented and should never be taken for granted or challenged.

Overturning Dobbs v. Jackson, therefore sending the issue of abortion from the federal and back to the states to be debated over should have been a shot in the arm to the pro-life community leaders across the country. Ending the federal ban reshuffled the power and influence over banning abortions back to the state level where it could be concentrated into battles instead of taking on the issue with the federal government as part of the larger war.

It gave the pro-life movement an off ramp for negotiating better protections for the unborn and removed the negotiating table for the first time in over five decades out of the Oval Office.

Although abortion is banned in some context throughout 24 states nationwide (that’s full, partial, heartbeat bill, etc.) and is currently unavailable in two states across the nation (N. Dakota and Wisconsin), states that have recently had abortion on the ballot (S. Carolina, Nebraska and Michigan) have failed to pass post-Dobbs level protections for life on Election Day.

Whether the blame for that falls onto lower than expected voter turnout, the shifting demographics of red states, post pandemic or that the leadership within the pro-life community who still wants to rely on others to carry the load for them, we can only derive that not enough is being invested into these elections where our ability to protect and preserve life in light of the most dire of circumstances is at stake.

Don’t fall for the trap of a Mike Pence calling for a national abortion ban, or feeding into Ron DeSantis’ “Heartbeat Bill” which essentially bans abortions after six weeks into the pregnancy, although both policies resonate better with me than longer-dated bans, these positions do not resonate across the board nationally and therefore render their proprietors unqualified to lead the national debate on abortion as President.

Donald Trump’s pro-life stance and ability to position the Supreme Court to overturn Dobbs showed that although he could not satisfy everyone with in the pro-life community, he would certainly fight for them and position them to have an easier avenue to protect life going forward. His attendance at events like the March for Life event showed that although his presidency serviced all Americans, when aplicable he would stand with those whom he promised to help have their voices heard.

Attacking Donald Trump now over his unwillingness to pin himself into a corner over the amount of weeks, if any that he sees fit to ban abortions is equal parts targeted propaganda and confirmation of failed campaigns by his primary challengers.

The inability to negotiate with both sides on abortion is clearly deficiency that through most eyes should disqualify you from running for the office of President of the United States. As Donald Trump has pointed out on numerous occasions and during that contentious interview last week with Kristen Welker on Meet the (fake) Press, Trump is running to be the president of everyone across the country, not just the President of the Republican Party or President of the pro-life movement.

It’s stances like those that allowed Donald Trump to nominate three conservative Supreme Court Judges who overturned the case that’s already protected and safeguarded millions of unborn lives.

And it’s like said aforementioned positions that will allow for Donald Trump to continue his leadership and support for the pro-life community and the unborn throughout his second term in office beginning in 2025.

• Rone is a Host and the Executive Producer of the Steak for Breakfast Podcast. You can subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts at: