Articles from Frank Camp, The Daily Wire, and Philip Wegmann, Real Clear Politics, with commentary by Steven Gledhill, FREEdom from MEdom Project
It is true that the alleged hedonistic lifestyle of President Trump is troubling for evangelical Christians in the voting booth. So why did some 80 percent of evangelical voters pull the lever (or fill in the oval) for real estate mogul and television celebrity, Donald J. Trump?
If terminating the life of an unborn child is murder, then the answer is simple. There is no confusing the clear choice of political candidates for President of the United States in November 2016 (and again in 2020).
One candidate agreed whole-heartedly that a person should have the right to terminate the life of an unborn child, and the other took the position that killing the unborn child is murder. For the voter that believes the same, the vote comes down to that over every other factor, whether it’s perceived to be naive and narrow-minded or not.
I suppose it’s ironic that President Trump has been the one linked by political pundits as Hitlerian because of his position on illegal immigration, among other things. Hitler exterminated more than 6 million Jewish people. Yet, it’s the position of so many running for political office in this country that allows for the extermination of unborn children, fully alive, even though their bodies are still growing. After they’re born, they continue to grow. More than 60 million of these lives have been exterminated legally in the United States since 1973. No irony, there?
From Real Clear Politics article, by Philip Wegmann:
In the last presidential election, Trump promised to nominate pro-life Supreme Court justices, to make permanent the prohibition on taxpayer funding of abortion, and to defund Planned Parenthood. It was a political come-to-Jesus moment, and it worked: Exit polls show that 80 percent of white evangelicals pulled the lever for Trump.
Keeping this flock of voters faithful is critical for re-election, says Tony Perkins, president of the social conservative juggernaut the Family Research Council. But religious voters aren’t the only ones who care about abortion, Perkins noted in an RCP interview. According to more than two decades of Gallup polling, he is right.
About 60 percent of Americans support abortion in the first trimester. As pregnancy continues, though, support drops. Just 28 percent support abortion in the second trimester. By the third trimester, only 13 percent.
Voters are adverse to the opposite poles of the argument, Bowman told RCP. While vocal groups stake out strict pro-life and pro-choice positions, the majority are somewhere in the middle.
“They want to keep abortion legal but they certainly want to see significant regulations on its use,” she said, pointing to the Gallup data. “People strongly support restrictions on third-trimester abortions.”
In a May 2018 Gallup poll, there was a question that asked for support of a third semester abortion if a woman’s life was endangered. 75 percent indicated support for late-term abortion only in the case of saving the woman’s life.
In an article by Frank Camp for The Daily Wire, he wrote the following:
These results are misleading. Gallup’s question implies that there are certain circumstances during the third trimester of pregnancy in which an abortion could save a woman’s life. Such a question suggests that termination is sometimes the only solution to certain late-term medical scenarios.
This simply isn’t true.
During an interview with Live Action founder Lila Rose, former abortion doctor Anthony Levatino stated that late-term abortions are never medically necessary:
“We hear all the time how abortion, including especially late-term abortion, is necessary to save women’s lives. Nothing could be further from the truth. I spent nine years working at a tertiary medical center. There are only certain hospitals in the country that are designated to take care of the really, really high-risk pregnancies …
Albany Medical Center in Albany, New York, where I worked, was one of them. I was faculty at the hospital for nine years, and I saw hundreds of cases of really severe pregnancy complications – cancers, heart disease, intractable diabetes … toxemia pregnancy, out of control. In those nine years, I saved hundreds of women from life-threatening pregnancies, and I did that by delivering them, by ending their pregnancy by delivery – either induction of labor or cesarean section…
I always tell people, in all of those years, the number of babies that I had to, that I was obligated to deliberately kill in the process was zero, none.”
Levatino continued, explaining that prior to a late-term abortion, the cervix must be sufficiently dilated in order for the doctor to be able to properly extract the dismembered fetus from the uterus. The dilation process “can take anywhere from 24 to 72 hours,” according to Levatino, who performed more than 1,200 abortions in his career. Many women experiencing major pregnancy complications don’t have that much time.
Levatino then spoke about a case that he encountered in his own career. A pregnant woman came to the hospital with “severe toxemia,” also known as pre-eclampsia. Levatino “stabilized her, brought her back, did a cesarean section,” and “had her delivered within an hour of arriving at the hospital.” Both the mother and the infant of 27 weeks gestation survived. Had she waited hours for a late-term abortion, she would have likely suffered a stroke, according to Levatino.
“You never need late-term abortion to save a woman’s life. If necessary, you accomplish the delivery,” he said.
The idea that abortion is sometimes necessary to “save a woman’s life” is persistent, but completely false. However, few people know this. Therefore, when a polling company asks a question such as the one that Gallup put forth, the answers should be analyzed with the understanding that many Americans aren’t aware that the question is based on a false premise.
According to his bio at The Daily Wire, Frank Camp’s “primary motivation is to provide other conservatives with source material they can use to have intelligent, intellectually honest debates with progressive friends and family members.”
My motivation for posting this at FREEdom from MEdom Project is to hopefully deliver some common sense to what has been a talking point that viewers and readers can get be worked up about while reading liberal political blogs and watching political commentary on television. The truth is that the majority of Americans are in a agreement when it comes to late-term abortion.
This, however, does not solve the tragedy of infanticide in this nation under the banner of choice. Every choice every one of us make each day is connected to a logical outcome, meaning every this is connect to that, whatever this and that may be.
If sexual intercourse leads to the conception of a child, the choice was made to have the sex that led to conception. If regretting that choice means terminating a pregnancy, a life has been exterminated. The logical outcome connected to that choice can come in various forms and degrees. The ultimate outcome rests between the decider and the sovereign giver of all life.
