By Carol Tobias, President

Editor’s note. This appears in the September issue of National Right to Life News, the “pro-life newspaper of record”. Please share with your pro-life family and friends.

Let’s be blunt. Donald Trump has said some things we don’t want to hear. Is he turning his back on the pro-life movement? I don’t think so. He is a candidate who wants to get elected. He was a friend during his years in the White House but I’m not sure anyone thought of him as a “member” of the pro-life movement. He might be described as practical, as transactional. He benefited from our help; we benefited from his help. It was a mutually advantageous relationship.

First and foremost, Trump appointed three justices who made the reversal of Roe possible. But he did much more.

While Trump was president, we were able to strengthen conscience protections for medical personnel who did not want to participate in an abortion or assisted suicide. We stopped our tax dollars from going to organizations that perform and/or promote abortions in other countries. We created a working group for countries around the world that did not want to bow to pro-abortion pressure from the UN.

Unlike now, abortions were not performed in Veterans Affairs hospitals and the Department of Defense was not paying transportation costs for members of the military to obtain an abortion. The Department of Health and Human Services was not trying to force hospital emergency rooms to perform abortion on demand. The Department of Justice was not throwing grandmas in jail for supposed violations of the FACE Act.

The pro-life movement was excited about the upcoming election and the possibility of electing, again, a friend as president and overturning the fanatical pro-abortion policies of the Biden-Harris administration.

While some in the pro-life movement ask if Trump should still be supported, the important question is: What happens to our country if he isn’t?

This situation reminds me of the children’s story about a little Dutch boy who saw a crack in the wall that protected his town from surrounding water.  If unchecked, the leak would weaken the entire wall, allowing a flood of water to destroy his town. The boy spent the night in a cold rain, holding his finger in that crack and was hailed the next morning as a hero for saving the town.

Logic might tell us that one little finger does not stop a whole wall from collapsing, but the pro-life movement can stop our country from collapsing. We all know, without a doubt, what will happen if Kamala Harris and Tim Walz become our next president and vice president.

If elected, Harris/Walz will be relentless in trying to make abortion legal in every state, for any reason, through all nine months of pregnancy, with our tax dollars paying for it. And they will do their best to shut down every pregnancy help center in the country. Even though women supposedly have a “choice,” they will be pushed to choose death.

If you pay attention to the words of Harris and Walz, they talk in euphemisms. They steer clear of the word “abortion” – talking instead about “freedom” and “reproductive health care.” Abortion is not health care. Abortion is killing. We no longer hear the term “pro-choice” because there is to be no choice. The abortion industry wants dead babies.

Let’s look at what the Biden-Harris administration has done in a few short years:

• They announced support for a national law that would nullify any and all protections for unborn children in every state. The so-called “Women’s Health Protection Act” would legalize abortion for any reason up to the moment of birth.
• They called for the repeal of the Hyde Amendment, which prevents tax dollars from being used to pay for most abortions in the US.
• They are sending millions of dollars to organizations that perform or refer for abortions as a method of family planning, and giving our tax dollars to organizations that promote and/or perform abortion in other countries, including those with pro-life laws.
• The Department of Defense is using tax dollars to provide transportation and expenses for military personnel to obtain an abortion. The Department of Veterans Affairs is using tax dollars to perform abortions in its hospitals.

• The Food and Drug Administration has removed most regulations on mifepristone, the abortion pill, even allowing pharmacies to mail the dangerous drug directly to a woman for a do-it-yourself abortion.
• The Biden administration is using the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA), a 38-year-old law, to attempt to force all hospital emergency rooms nationwide to provide abortion on demand.

These life-destroying actions are all happening or underway.  What will our country look like if this continues for another four years under a Harris-Walz administration?

They will not only continue these policies but will expand on them. When Harris ran for president in 2020, one of her major campaign goals was to use the Department of Justice to control state laws. Any bill that protected and supported unborn children and their mothers would have to be pre-approved by the Justice Department before it could be enacted. (Fat chance of that happening.) She has revived that plan for this election campaign.

Harris has also expressed support for a plan to add four more justices to the Supreme Court. This court packing would be an overt attempt to override the justices already on the court who honor the Constitution.

Think of any evil plan to promote the killing of children and realize that it is possible under a Harris-Walz administration.

There is too much at stake in this election. Let’s be the little boy with his finger in the dike, holding back the flood. I don’t want to imagine a country after four years of Harris-Walz, and I don’t think you do either.