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No candidate is perfect, but the last major candidate to try winning the Republican presidential nomination without working to earn the support of pro-lifers was the pro-abortion Rudy Giuliani, whose campaign flamed out almost as soon as the actual voting started. Donald Trump at least says he\u2019s pro-life, but it\u2019s hard not to be reminded of the former New York mayor after hearing his latest statements<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During a press conference last Tuesday, Trump refused to get specific when discussing abortion beyond \u201cAll I can tell you is this – I’m pro-life and I’ve been pro-life a long time,\u201d answering a question about how he\u2019d enforce an abortion ban by saying, \u201cI just don’t want to talk about that right now,\u201d and deflecting a question about the morning-after pill by changing the subject to his endorsements and his poll numbers.<\/p>\n

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Oof. No one was expecting The Donald, with his sometimes-delightful\/sometimes-cringeworthy freewheeling style, to exactly respond with a sophisticated discussion of abortion punishments evolving with developing cultural mores<\/a>, but surely a generic \u201cno, we would just punish the abortionists\u201d or at least a \u201cwe\u2019ll cross that bridge when we come to it\u201d wouldn\u2019t have been too much to ask. Stating outright that you don\u2019t want to answer the question only reinforces the doubts as to Trump\u2019s pro-life credentials that led a coalition of pro-life leaders<\/a> last week to declare \u201canybody but Trump\u201d:<\/p>\n

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On the issue of defending unborn children and protecting women from the violence of abortion, Mr. Trump cannot be trusted and there is, thankfully, an abundance of alternative candidates with proven records of pro-life leadership whom pro-life voters can support [\u2026] America will only be a great nation when we have leaders of strong character who will defend both unborn children and the dignity of women. We cannot trust Donald Trump to do either.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The issue is not that Trump was once pro-abortion. It\u2019s not unusual that a New York businessman<\/a> would adopt his culture\u2019s conventional wisdom without giving it much thought, and pro-lifers know that seeing the blessings of new life up close<\/a> is how plenty of sincere people see the light.<\/p>\n

No, the issue is all the things he’s said<\/a> since<\/em> becoming pro-life\u2014being unable to say if abortion is murder, suggesting that Planned Parenthood might still deserve partial federal funding for the \u201cgood\u201d things they do, floating his sister (the partial-birth-abortion-upholding Judge Maryanne Trump Barry) as a \u201cphenomenal\u201d Supreme Court nominee, and now this.<\/p>\n

He did make another overture to pro-lifers over the weekend with his culture-of-life editorial<\/a>, but reading it is unlikely to satisfy those not already onboard with him. It\u2019s a pretty generic piece that hits all the obligatory \u201csafe\u201d pro-life notes\u2014pro-life with rape, incest, and life-of-the-mother exceptions, overturn Roe<\/em>, and eliminate tax funding for abortion providers\u2014but little that suggests original thought or deep passion for the cause. Frankly, it reads like a ghostwriter churned it out in an hour.<\/p>\n

So pro-lifers are wary, and Trump is doing little to reassure them. However, Trump is also gambling that he doesn\u2019t need to give pro-lifers\u00a0anything more than lip service\u2014his candidacy is less about the full range of conventional political issues, and more a combination of a couple key issues and a \u00a0revolt against traditional power structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No candidate is perfect, but the last major candidate to try winning the Republican presidential nomination without working to earn the support of pro-lifers was the pro-abortion Rudy Giuliani, whose campaign flamed out almost as soon as the actual voting started. 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