{"id":309964,"date":"2024-04-09T06:37:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T11:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=309964"},"modified":"2024-04-12T22:51:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T03:51:40","slug":"protecting-human-life-decided-will-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/protecting-human-life-decided-will-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Why protecting human life should not be decided by ‘the will of the people’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After much speculation, former President Donald Trump announced his position on abortion, explaining that he opposes putting federal protections in place for preborn human beings, and believes that laws protecting preborn children should be left for individual states to decide. This, however, is not a truly pro-life position<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In his video statement<\/a>, Trump argued in favor of exactly what took place in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/em> Supreme Court decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em>: there was no longer a federal law mandating abortion’s legality, and individual states were free to keep abortion legal, or enact laws protecting preborn children. “At the end of the day, this is all about the will of the people,” Trump said, adding, “Now it’s up to the states to do the right thing.”<\/p>\n

Live Action’s president and founder Lila Rose responded in a press release<\/a>, stating in part:<\/p>\n

It is not right for democratic societies to vote on the fundamental rights of unpopular minorities. There is no more unpopular minority today than preborn Americans. <\/em><\/p>\n

Abortion is not about the \u201cwill of the people,\u201d it\u2019s about respecting the human right that we are endowed with by our creator. Our rights come from God, not the government. Those rights do not change because of the circumstances of our conception.<\/em><\/p>\n

While overturning Roe<\/em> was an important step forward, ending Roe<\/em> was never the end goal. Life is not a right that is protected based on a person’s zip code, nor should the death of innocent human beings be determined by popular vote. Atrocities against human beings shouldn’t be “regulated” to allow only a certain amount<\/em> of atrocity. The way society and political figures speak about preborn human beings reveals the fact that they don’t view them<\/em> as full human beings deserving of human rights.<\/p>\n

It’s a tragic mistake, not unlike the mistakes America made in her not-so-distant history with other groups of human beings.<\/p>\n