Pro-lifers react to Trump's reported support for 16-week abortion ban; campaign claims 'fake news'
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In a statement provided to The Christian Post, Lila Rose, founder and president of Live Action, called on Trump to "do better" than a 16-week abortion ban.
The Live Action founder highlighted the various traits preborn children already possess while inside the womb, even during their earliest stages of development.
"It is unconscionable that today in America, these are children who have absolutely no legal protection at the federal level from the barbaric homicide of induced abortion," Rose stated. "Abortion procedures starve or rip living, preborn children limb from limb. All children deserve legal protection from lethal violence."
The pro-life leader cited the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice research organization, which estimated that between 6.3% and 7.4% of all abortions in the United States take place at or before 15 weeks of pregnancy. While Rose acknowledged that stopping these types of abortions would save thousands, she argued that federal protections for the preborn cannot end at 16 weeks.
"A human being at the moment of fertilization is just as human as a 16-week-old baby or a 16-year-old teenager," the Live Action founder stated. "Protection for children at 16 weeks gestation does not come close to solving our nation's defining human rights crisis of over 1 million children being killed through abortion."
"In fact, if federal protection for children 16 weeks and older were signed into law, 95% of elective abortions would still be allowed to continue, killing over a million children each year," she added.
Rose has previously criticized Trump for suggesting the Republican Party's position on abortion was responsible for its lackluster performance during the 2022 midterm elections.
"It was the 'abortion issue,' poorly handled by many Republicans, especially those that firmly insisted on No Exceptions, even in the case of Rape, Incest, or Life of the Mother, that lost large numbers of Voters," Trump had said in a statement on Truth Social. "Also, the people that pushed so hard, for decades, against abortion, got their wish from the U.S. Supreme Court, & just plain disappeared, not to be seen again."
Rose responded that the former president was "way out of line here on life."
"He does not have a pulse on where his potential base is — as many believed he has in the past. This kind of nonsense will be a losing political strategy for him," she tweeted at the time.
Samantha Kamman is a reporter for The Christian Post. She can be reached at: [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter: @Samantha_Kamman
