Pro-Life Conservative Hammers Trump-Vance Ticket for ‘Calculated Copout’ on Abortion
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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance were excoriated by Alexandra DeSanctis, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center for their “calculated copout” on abortion.
In a column for National Review published Tuesday, DeSanctis reviewed Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, a case before the Supreme Court this past term, writing:
In June, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous ruling in a case concerning regulation of chemical-abortion drugs, sometimes referred to as the abortion pill. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine involved a challenge to the FDA’s approval process for the two drugs used in chemical abortions — mifepristone and misoprostol — on the grounds that the process had been rushed and politically motivated, risking the health of women who use these drugs.
The Court’s ruling was silent on questions of substance; the justices ruled unanimously that the health-care professionals challenging the FDA did not have standing in the case. In short, the ruling said nothing about the legality and safety of chemical-abortion drugs.
But according to DeSanctis, Trump and Vance have nevertheless been using the Court’s decision as a political shield.
“In the course of the past month, both Donald Trump and J. D. Vance have claimed that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of legal chemical abortion — and indicated that they support this fictitious ruling,” argued DeSanctis, taking issue with Trump’s declaration that “the Supreme Court just approved the abortion pill and I agree with their decision to have done that,” as well as Vance’s assertion that “The Supreme Court made a decision saying that the American people should have access to that medication [chemical abortion]. Donald Trump has supported that opinion. I support that opinion.”
“Evidently convinced that softening on abortion is a wise political move, Trump and Vance have chosen to grossly mispresent the Court’s ruling in order to justify their newfound support for chemical abortion,” continued DeSanctis. “It’s buck-passing of the most devious sort, a half-hearted shrug at a ruling that never happened to give themselves cover as they wink at the vast majority of abortions.”
She went on to not only characterize the strategy as a calculated copout, but to question whether the Trump-Vance ticket was even worthy of pro-lifers’ support.
“It’s one thing for pro-lifers to reluctantly embrace the Republican ticket as the only alternative to the abortion extremism of the Left,” she concluded. “It is another thing entirely to do so while ignoring this egregious shift in favor of legal abortion and pretending that the party and its nominees are as pro-life as ever.”
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