Donald Trump is a Massive Pro-Life Upgrade From Joe Biden
There is something deeply satisfying about writing press releases or statements in support of White House policies instead of denouncing them.
For four years, preborn babies were under a never-ending and aggressive pro-abortion onslaught from the Biden administration. During Joe Biden’s first year in office, National Right to Life released approximately 110 press releases and statements—that’s a rate of nearly one every three days. A majority of the releases were related to pro-abortion policies of the Biden administration: from reversing President Trump’s Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance program to changes in Title X funding that allowed taxpayer-funding of abortion, the tide was relentless.
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Women and their preborn babies were the victims of a pro-abortion blitz, and it seemed as if the abortion industry was getting everything on its wish list.
For four years, the pro-life movement was on the defensive. Pushing forward and passing protective legislation in Congress was nearly impossible, but the pro-life movement was poised to protect long-standing laws and policies such as the Hyde Amendment. While it often felt like the futile labor of Sisyphus pushing his boulder up the hill, we stayed at it.
Today, President Trump has been in office less than three weeks, and we’ve been very busy. The communications department has responded to executive orders and Congressional votes advancing pro-life legislation. The change has been fast—but in a good way. President Trump’s nominees for agency positions are either committed and well-known pro-life advocates or they have agreed to abide by the administration’s pro-life policies.
What a change. NRL President Carol Tobias’s headline for her column catches the significance in just six words: “What a Difference a Day Makes.”
But we will not rest on a victory at the ballot box. Our Movement is too smart for that.
We are still facing state-by-state battles in the legislatures, and we need to educate the average American about the truth of abortion. Loud, pro-abortion voices still dominate the legacy media and the entertainment industry.
But our strength is you.
We need your help now, more than ever before. If you are not active in a local right-to-life chapter, reach out to find out where one is near you. If there isn’t one, see what you need to do to start one.
Volunteer at a local pregnancy center or offer to buy clothing or diapers for a new mom in need. Not all of us are called to lobby legislators or speak before hundreds, but I believe we are all asked to do something.
As President Trump moves forward in protecting life and state legislators work to protect life, we need to support those efforts by challenging misinformation and outright lies in the media that come from the abortion industry and its huge cadre of media sympathizers.
If you are a writer, perhaps you can write a letter to the editor for your local paper to challenge a pro-abortion news story or send an email to the local news station questioning, for example, their use of pro-abortion studies supporting chemical abortions.
Please remember there are no “little tasks” in the fight for life. Rick Warren put it this way: “There will always be more people willing to do ‘great’ things for God than there are people willing to do the little things. The race to be a leader is crowded, but the field is wide open for those willing to be servants.”
Whatever you can do to help, know that National Right to Life stands firm in our work and mission to protect lives and we are excited to see what can be accomplished in the next four years.
LifeNews.com Note: Laura Echevarria is the Director of Media Relations and a spokesperson for the National Right to Life Committee.
