By Dave Andrusko
As we approach a final conclusion to the 2020 elections, a small post at Christianity Today illustrates a mistake (easy enough to make), an omission (tunnel vision, perhaps) but also a fundamentally misleading statement that bedevils those of us who grasp the gigantic difference it makes whether you have a pro-life Republican or a pro-death Democrat in the White House.
First, the mistakes. Because there is still a race to be finalized, there are 18 (potentially 19) new pro-life Republican women in the House of Representatives, not 16.
“Seven [of these pro-life women] flipped Democratic seats.” In fact, they flipped at least ten (and possibly eleven) seats held by pro-abortion Democrats.
We have celebrated this huge influx on many occasions.
The omission? There are also more than a dozen new pro-life men! Together, these women and men flipped at least 13 seats from pro-abortion to pro-life. These pro-life pickups are a major reason the Democrat majority in the House shrank.
Fundamentally misleading statement? “Abortion rates are at record lows and have trended downward through the presidencies of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.”
What’s the inference? They’ve trended down regardless of whether pro-lifers—George W. Bush and Donald Trump—or pro-abortionists—Bill Clinton and Barack Obama—lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
You simply could not leave a more incorrect impression. As we have documented many times, abortion rates went down in spite of the best efforts of Presidents Clinton and Obama.