October 8, 2024
Radical truth telling is hot in the streets of America these days when it comes to abortion. Not only has Students for Life Action’s (SFLAction) work being seen and heard in the halls of Congress and at Senate hearings, but our arguments for life are being echoed on debate stages.
At the recent Vice-Presidential debate between Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, late-term abortion was brought up, and incorrectly fact-checked by the governor and debate moderators. Even The Atlantic, mainstay of the establishment class of Washington D.C., cannot deny the reality of late term abortion anymore from its readers. In a recent op-ed, Emma Camp writes, “In the recent vice-presidential debate, Tim Walz sidestepped a question about a relatively permissive abortion bill he signed into law in Minnesota. And in the presidential debate before that, when Donald Trump pointed out that Roe had allowed for abortions in the seventh, eighth, and ninth months of a pregnancy, Kamala Harris plainly said, “That’s not true.”
As we have documented many, many times: it is true. Late term abortion is very real.
Even before the two Vice Presidential hopefuls took to the debate stage, it was being admitted as truth in the Washington Post: “Democrats bent on restoring abortion rights would have us believe that no state would allow a fully formed baby to be aborted, and it is rational to believe this. But such is not always the case. In fact, a doctor profiled in a 2023 Atlantic article, Warren Hern, performs abortions up to 32 weeks and sometimes later. Hern estimated that about half of his later-term abortions are of healthy babies.”
The violence and wickedness of late-term abortion is appalling – the outright denial or attempts to cover it up by the Democrats and their toadies in the press is worse.
There’s good news on the horizon, however. Just recently, Sen. Vance said that a future Trump administration would defund Planned Parenthood, saying, ““On the question of defunding Planned Parenthood, look, I mean our view is we don’t think that taxpayers should fund late-term abortions,” Vance said after Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “That has been a consistent view of the Trump campaign the first time around. It will remain a consistent view.””
Planned Parenthood will be cut off at the knees without this funding, and one of the core mechanisms that exist for late-term abortions would be cut with it.
And despite the former President’s view that abortion is a states rights issue (it’s not), if it’s no longer a federal concern, then at the very least Planned Parenthood shouldn’t be receiving federal tax dollars. As we noted in a previous article, since 1993, Planned Parenthood has raked in $10.35 BILLION in total taxpayer funding. Planned Parenthood’s most recent annual report for 2021-2022 noted that the money keeps pouring in, with 35% of their annual budget coming from federal taxpayers, more than $670M.
Do you think the ravaged western part of North Carolina could use that money right now?
READ: Blood Money: Our Federal Tax Dollars Support Abortion
But again, if this only ever remains a states rights issue (it won’t), a future President Trump and Vice President Vance would be vocal allies against late-term abortion at the state level, opening the doors to lawfare and lawsuits of all kinds to protect the sanctity of life.
Lawsuits like these can go as high as the U.S. Supreme Court and from there, who knows what could happen?