Two Reasons To Pray for the Trumps
Following the assassination attempts against Donald Trump, many American Christians have no doubt been praying for the former president, his family, and their safety. But there’s another good reason to pray for the Trumps …
Melania Trump, one of only two former First Ladies to call herself a Catholic, has recently spoken in favor of abortion, the slaughter of unborn innocents. “It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government,” Melania writes in her upcoming memoir, according to a report from The Guardian. She continued:
Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body? A woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes. Restricting a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body. I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life.
In a video posted to social media after news of her pro-abortion memoir excerpt broke, Melania declared, “Individual freedom is a fundamental principle that I safeguard. Without a doubt, there is no room for compromise when it comes to this essential right that all women possess from birth.” Quoting a popular, though woefully incorrect, pro-abortion slogan, she asked, “What does ‘My body, my choice’ really mean?”
Earlier this year, the Donald himself seemingly abandoned the pro-life principles that he championed while campaigning in 2016 and while in office until 2021. While touting the fact that he had appointed the U.S. Supreme Court Justices who wisely reversed the calamitous Roe v. Wade decision in 2022, Trump erroneously said that the Court’s ruling was the right one because it handed the abortion issue back to the states, which is where he said it belongs.
To that end, he also gutted the GOP’s platform this summer, removing the Republican Party’s longstanding commitment to the sanctity of life.
The existence of such groups as “Catholics for Choice” and “Catholics for Harris” is further evidence of the widespread failure of Catholic leaders.
There are, it seems, two chief issues with the Trumps’ reasoning on abortion. The former President’s argument is easier to address: abortion in America is the slaughter of American children and, as such, ought to be criminalized at the federal level. Trump rightly and justly castigates various states and cities for their immigration policy, noting that California or New Mexico has a duty to the wellbeing of the rest of the nation to enforce immigration law. If that duty is not upheld, violence eventually erupts. American citizens are attacked and stabbed, American women are raped, American children are murdered.
Likewise, each state has a duty to the rest of the nation to protect the children of that nation. Abortion is a matter not of consensus, not of degree, but of absolute morality. Either it is immoral to kill an innocent child or it isn’t. It isn’t moral in New York or California but immoral in Texas or Louisiana; that isn’t how morality works, and if it were then Trump’s quest to uphold justice and protect the nation’s sovereignty would be meaningless, a mere matter of taste or preference.
Melania Trump’s Emotional Appeal
The argument proffered by Melania has, perhaps, a more emotional appeal to it than Trump’s and certainly has little, if anything, to do with political expediency, but it is just as wrong and just as flawed. Women should be able to make their own decisions, of course, about having children, without government interference. (To that end, I might note, vaccination requirements ought to be banned in hospitals, but Melania isn’t likely to argue for that.) The interesting thing is that women are able to make their own decisions about having children.
Since, it would seem, the beginning of humanity’s lengthy sojourn upon this earth, we have figured out pretty quickly that sex often results in having babies. This isn’t a novelty, it didn’t take Copernicus to figure it out, it didn’t take Magellan to discover it.
Yes, there are tragic cases of rape, but those account for an infinitesimally small portion of abortions. The more honest way of saying what Melania says is that some people want to have sex, knowing that it may well result in the conception of another human life, but have decided that sex is so irresistible that it’s worth it to end that life in order to keep having sex, or in order to avoid the responsibility that would follow from having sex and conceiving a child.
Protecting unborn life does not inhibit anyone’s “individual freedom,” it is not an infringement on some “fundamental principle” or “essential right.” On the contrary, it is upholding those very goods, safeguarding the individual freedom of the unborn child and shielding the most fundamental principle, the most essential right, the right to live. Abortion activists always portray pro-life legislation as a form of oppression, a roadblock on the path to uninhibited freedom, when it is in fact a necessary check against the raging sexual appetites, which would (in this case) literally kill in order to engorge themselves.
Melania says that she has “carried this belief with [her] throughout [her] entire adult life,” which is a damn shame, since it shows that the moral tenets of the Catholic faith she professes have been left behind, presumably somewhere before adulthood. The Catholic Church is notoriously opposed to abortion and has unwaveringly proclaimed the unequivocal moral evil of abortion since the first century.
This also, sadly, more than likely means that she has been poorly catechized. The existence of such groups as “Catholics for Choice” and “Catholics for Harris” is further evidence of the widespread failure of Catholic leaders to proclaim the truth and, just as importantly, ensure that it is taught to and understood by Catholics. The absence of clear, correct catechesis has wrought untold damage on the Western World and, especially through the evil of abortion, been at least indirectly responsible for tens of millions of the most brutal deaths.
So while American Christians (and Catholic in particular) are right to pray for the safety of President Trump and his wife, do not forget to pray for the conversion of their hearts, that they might reject the grave evil of abortion and truly lead the United States in the paths of righteousness.
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