{"id":2036920,"date":"2023-09-19T06:44:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T10:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-is-delusional-to-think-he-can-broker-peace-in-the-abortion-debate\/"},"modified":"2023-09-19T06:49:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T10:49:15","slug":"trump-is-delusional-to-think-he-can-broker-peace-in-the-abortion-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-is-delusional-to-think-he-can-broker-peace-in-the-abortion-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s belief in his ability to mediate the abortion debate is delusional."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-is-delusional-to-think-he-can-broker-peace-in-the-abortion-debate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2036920&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Trump&#8217;s \u2062Na\u00efve Attempt to \u2063Compromise on\u2062 Abortion<\/h2>\n<p>Former \u2062President Donald Trump apparently believes he can bring &#8220;peace&#8221; to the abortion debate \u2064by negotiating a compromise between the pro-life and pro-choice sides. He suggests finding an acceptable\u200c gestational timeframe after which abortions would be banned by \u200bfederal law.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AGHamilton29\/status\/1703421792575012959?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview<\/a> with NBC&#8217;s Kristen Welker, Trump stated that he would &#8220;come up\u2062 with a number\u200d of weeks or \u2062months&#8221; that would &#8220;make people\u200c happy.&#8221; He even claimed that &#8220;92 percent of the Democrats don&#8217;t want to see abortion\u2064 after a certain \u200dperiod of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What nonsense. \u200cHas a single Democrat leader ever articulated \u200cthe stage of pregnancy after which\u200d they would\u200c support an abortion ban? No, they haven&#8217;t. My colleague David Harsanyi rightly <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/09\/18\/trump-is-right-democrats-support-no-limits-on-abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a> Monday \u2063that Democrats support\u200c zero limits on abortion, even up \u200bto\u200c the \u2063point of birth in some states, and &#8220;are also opposed to compelling doctors to provide infants who survive attempted abortions the\u200b minimum amount of care they would be expected to provide any other person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier in the interview, Trump responded to \u2062a biased question from Welker about the medical necessity of abortion \u2063by stating, &#8220;The radical people on this are really the Democrats \u200dthat say, after \u200bfive months, \u2064six months, seven\u200c months, eight months, \u2063nine months, and even\u2064 after\u2064 birth you&#8217;re allowed to terminate the baby.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As if on cue, Welker interjected, &#8220;Democrats \u200bare not saying that.&#8221; But of course they\u2064 are. \u200bThey \u200csay it\u200c all the time, mostly in how they vote on abortion legislation. Mollie Hemingway <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/09\/18\/nbcs-kristen-welker-lied-repeatedly-about-democrats-extreme-abortion-position\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">detailed<\/a> a number of\u2064 recent votes in which Democrats almost uniformly \u2064supported unrestricted abortion.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Given a choice of whether to \u2062vote\u2063 for or \u2064against legislation requiring states to permit the killing of \u2064unborn children up to\u2064 the moment of birth,&#8221; wrote Hemingway, &#8220;nearly all elected Democrats vote enthusiastically for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So much for Trump&#8217;s na\u00efve (or perhaps insincere) claim that he can convince Democrats\u200c to abandon their position. \u2062No \u200cone, not even Trump, will ever be able to\u200d broker a compromise on \u200dabortion for the simple reason that Democrats will\u2062 never accept a compromise \u200bif it means\u200c placing hard limits\u2063 on the killing of \u200bthe \u2062unborn.\u2063 Abortion has become a \u2064sacrament of the left&#8217;s neo-pagan religion, and Democrats will defend it to the last.<\/p>\n<p>But the exchange between Trump and Welker exposed something else besides Trump&#8217;s naivet\u00e9, which is his\u200d utterly\u200d transactional approach to the abortion debate. He won over pro-life\u2063 Republicans\u2064 in 2016 by promising to\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-roe-never-trumpers-should-just-admit-they-were-wrong\/\" title=\"After Roe, Never Trumpers Should Just Admit They Were Wrong\">nominate originalist justices<\/a> to the Supreme Court, which meant guaranteeing Roe&#8217;s \u200beventual demise. Pro-lifers went along with it and \u200csupported Trump because it was their best shot at accomplishing the half-century goal of overturning Roe, something previous Republican leaders had failed to do \u200c\u2014\u200c and often had not even tried to do.<\/p>\n<p>For Trump&#8217;s part,\u2062 he seems\u2062 to\u200b think overturning Roe was \u2064enough\u200d and that aggressive efforts like those of Florida Gov.\u2064 Ron DeSantis, who signed a bill this year banning\u200c abortions after six weeks, \u2063are misguided. Trump called the Florida bill &#8220;a terrible thing and a\u2064 terrible mistake,&#8221; and presumably thinks the same\u200c about similar \u2062abortion bans passed \u2062and signed into law in Texas, Georgia, and Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, Trump has no philosophical or theological\u200d convictions about abortion. That was clear as far back\u2063 as the 2016 GOP\u2064 primary campaign when Trump, a \u200dlifelong pro-choice Democrat,\u200b suddenly became a pro-life\u2064 Republican. \u200bSo why\u2062 did the pro-life movement support him? Because when\u2064 you really believe, as pro-lifers do, that human lives are at \u200bstake, you&#8217;re willing to engage in nakedly transactional politics to save as many of those lives as possible. In this, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-is-delusional-to-think-he-can-broker-peace-in-the-abortion-debate\/\" title=\"Trump's belief in his ability to mediate the abortion debate is delusional.\">pro-life movement \u2062shares striking similarities<\/a> with the abolitionist movement of the antebellum era, which was willing \u2062to accept compromises to limit the spread of what they sincerely believed to be \u200cthe great moral evil \u200cof\u200d slavery.<\/p>\n<p>But\u2063 precisely because\u2062 the pro-life movement,\u200c like the abolitionist movement, is \u2064motivated by moral convictions about the rights and dignity of the\u200b human\u2063 person, there are limits to what can be\u200b achieved by compromise. Pro-lifers will never be\u200d at &#8220;peace&#8221; \u2062about abortion\u200d as long as it\u200b persists as a legal regime, however restricted it\u200b might be, just as abolitionists saw their compromises as part of \u200da long-term strategy to eradicate slavery entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Trump might think a 15-week ban, for example, would \u2064placate both sides, but the truth is that most pro-lifers would\u2064 see it merely as a way \u2064station en route to a total or\u200b near-total ban, while pro-choice\u200d advocates would see it as an unacceptable stripping away of a woman&#8217;s &#8220;right&#8221;\u200d to terminate her pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200ctruth is, the\u2062 abortion debate in America will never end because each \u2064side represents a\u200c worldview that is fundamentally incompatible \u200bwith the other. \u200dEither the unborn are human beings\u200c with\u200b the inalienable right to life, or \u200bthey have no rights at\u2064 all and can be terminated just as easily as black slaves were in \u2062the antebellum South. There isn&#8217;t really \u2064any middle ground\u200d here on which to\u2062 forge a compromise.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats sense this about the pro-life side, which is\u2062 why they view with skepticism \u200dany Republican legislation proposing limits on abortion, fearing, as southern\u2063 slaveowners once\u2063 did, that any limits are the beginning of abortion&#8217;s eventual demise.<\/p>\n<p>In a similar way, most pro-lifers understand that nearly every elected Democrat today believes that the vindication of the constitutional rights of one group of people,\u2063 women, depends entirely on denying all constitutional rights of \u200danother group, the\u2063 unborn. Democrats have\u2063 long held such views\u200c about\u200d the \u2064Constitution and were willing to wage\u200b a\u200d war to defend them.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-life movement, of course, does not\u200c have the same level of support\u200b within the Republican Party as the\u2064 pro-choice \u200cmovement has within the Democrat\u2063 Party. The Republican establishment has always held its nose at the \u200cpro-life wing of the party and done the bare minimum to \u2063placate it.\u200d No wonder, then, that when Trump \u2063came \u200calong promising to deliver tangible results\u200d in exchange for pro-life support, the movement accepted the offer. Pro-lifers figured, correctly, that however much Trump might disappoint, he could not be more of\u200d a disappointment than the GOP had been for the last half-century.<\/p>\n<p>The Welker-Trump interview \u200cat\u2062 least makes all of this rather clear: There will \u2062be no compromise on\u2062 abortion.\u2062 As Abraham Lincoln famously said of slavery in\u200d his &#8220;House Divided&#8221; speech, so too \u2064we\u2064 might say\u2063 of abortion in our time: We will become all one thing or all the other.<\/p>\n<p>The sooner\u200b Trump gets that through his head, the sooner he&#8217;ll clear his\u2064 mind of cant about \u2063convincing\u2063 Democrats to compromise \u2014\u2063 or casting aspersions on \u200bRepublicans like DeSantis who make the least compromise possible\u200d to advance the cause \u2064of life.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2>Compromise solution<\/h2>\n<p><span>  At \u200bany stage of\u2063 pregnancy. These two positions cannot be reconciled through compromise because they are\u2063 based on fundamentally \u200cdifferent beliefs about the value and dignity of human life.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s attempt to negotiate a compromise on abortion is misguided \u200bfor several\u200c reasons. First, his claim that Democrats would be willing to accept a gestational timeframe for abortions is simply \u2064untrue.\u2064 Democrats have \u2062consistently\u2062 supported unrestricted \u200baccess \u200bto abortion, even in the later stages \u200cof pregnancy. This is evident in their voting \u200drecord on abortion legislation and their opposition to efforts to provide care for infants who survive attempted abortions. The idea that\u200b Democrats would suddenly abandon their position\u200b and accept limitations on abortion is unrealistic and unsupported by any evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Second, Trump&#8217;s transactional approach to the abortion debate raises\u200d concerns about his commitment to the pro-life movement. While he promised to nominate originalist justices to the Supreme Court, which was seen as a\u200c step \u2064towards overturning Roe v. Wade, he now seems dismissive of efforts \u200dto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-threatens-to-veto-house-appropriations-bill-for-dod\/\" title=\"Biden vows to veto DOD appropriations bill.\">pass restrictive abortion laws<\/a>. His criticism of the Florida bill and\u2064 similar laws in other states suggests that he views overturning Roe as a sufficient accomplishment, without considering the moral and ethical implications of allowing abortions to continue in some circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Trump&#8217;s history as a pro-choice\u2064 Democrat raises questions about his true convictions on the issue of abortion. His sudden transformation into a pro-life Republican during the 2016 campaign suggests a strategic political \u200bmove rather\u2063 than a deeply held belief. This opportunistic approach undermines his\u200d credibility and\u200d raises doubts about his commitment to \u2064protecting the rights of the unborn.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the abortion debate in America is deeply polarized because it is not merely a political \u2064issue, but a moral and ethical one. Pro-lifers believe that every human life is valuable and deserving of protection from conception, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/activists-already-licking-their-chops-at-getting-taxpayers-to-pay-for-abortions-amid-potential-biden-admin\/\" title=\"Activists Already Licking Their Chops at Getting Taxpayers To Pay for Abortions Amid Potential Biden Admin\">pro-choice advocates<\/a> emphasize \u2063a \u2064woman&#8217;s\u2063 right\u200d to make decisions about her own body. \u200bThese opposing worldviews cannot be reconciled through compromise because they are rooted in fundamentally different understandings of the rights\u200c and dignity of the \u2062unborn.<\/p>\n<p>While compromises can be made to limit the scope of abortion, such as implementing gestational timeframes, they will never \u200dsatisfy both sides of the debate. Pro-lifers will continue to advocate for further restrictions and ultimately \u2063seek to end the practice of abortion entirely, while pro-choice advocates will resist any infringement on a woman&#8217;s right to make decisions about\u2064 her own body. As long as these fundamental differences persist, the abortion debate will continue with no possibility\u200d of a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump believes he can resolve the abortion dispute by mediating a compromise between pro-life and pro-choice factions. He aims to establish a mutually agreeable gestational period for federal abortion bans. During an interview with NBC&#8217;s Kristen Welker, Trump expressed his intention to devise a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":2036921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2036920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2036920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2036921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}