The unanointed head of the Pro-Life Party, Donald Trump, has decided that it’s OK to kill a fetus after detecting a heart beat at 16 weeks of gestation. In other words, the GOP’s official position–because Trump is the GOP official position on every issue–is that we’re only pro-life after the 16th week. Before then, it’s OK to kill a fetus. We see this as the ultimate (and hypocritical) compromise between trying to hold onto the evangelical voters and recognition of the will of pro-abortion voters. Reasonable voters will see through this ploy. The Catholic Church will have a real problem with their “Choose Life” signs. If Trump chooses life only after 16 weeks, the Catholic Church will have difficulty supporting the GOP. But their only other choice, Joe Biden–a practicing Catholic–is pro-abortion because he sees it as the view of the majority. The question: how many religious-leaning voters will vote Republican if their position is to allow abortion up to 16 weeks. We’ll find out in November.
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