{"id":938,"date":"2020-01-25T15:39:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T20:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/?p=938"},"modified":"2020-01-25T17:34:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-25T22:34:08","slug":"wapo-at-the-march-for-life-trump-greeted-as-a-pro-life-hero-because-he-is-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/2020\/01\/25\/wapo-at-the-march-for-life-trump-greeted-as-a-pro-life-hero-because-he-is-one\/","title":{"rendered":"WAPO: At the March for Life, Trump … greeted as a pro-life hero \u2014 because he is one"},"content":{"rendered":"
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History is being made on Capitol Hill this week. No, I\u2019m not talking about the presidential impeachment trial; that\u2019s been done before. I\u2019m talking about President Trump\u2019s\u00a0decision<\/a>\u00a0to become the first U.S. president to speak in person at the March for Life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s hard to overstate how important this development is. No president has ever attended the March for Life \u2014 not Ronald Reagan, not George H.W. Bush, not my old boss, George W. Bush. They all addressed the marchers remotely, via telephone or satellite link. The arrangement always seemed absurd. The marchers were on the Mall, literally in sight of the White House. Why not go out and join them? But despite the best of efforts of many inside previous administrations, none did.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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[Henry Olsen: Why those who oppose abortion continue to fight<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The message to pro-life conservatives was clear: They were the black sheep of the Republican coalition. Their presence was tolerated because their votes were needed. But while Republican presidential candidates couldn\u2019t win the nomination without declaring themselves pro-life, the GOP establishment not-so-secretly loathed pro-lifers. The prevailing attitude was: There they go again, making people uncomfortable by talking about\u00a0abortion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pro-lifers took the scraps they were thrown from the GOP table because they had nowhere else to go. In today\u2019s Democratic Party, abortion is no longer treated as a necessary evil but as something to be embraced and even celebrated. In 2018, for example, New York\u2019s Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo, lit up One World Trade Center \u2014 the Freedom Tower \u2014 to\u00a0celebrate<\/a>\u00a0the passage of a new law that removes most restrictions on abortion, even in the third trimester.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pro-life Democrats have all but disappeared on Capitol Hill, and the Democratic orthodoxy today is taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand up to the moment of birth. Dissent from that orthodoxy is not tolerated. For more than 40 years, former vice president Joe Biden supported the Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funding for abortions. He said that as a Catholic, he was personally pro-life and that \u201cthose of us who are opposed to abortion should not be compelled to pay for them.\u201d But in 2020, that isn\u2019t good enough. Biden, campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination,\u00a0caved in<\/a>\u00a0to the pro-abortion radicals last June, abandoned his principles and embraced taxpayer funding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Given their lack of other options, pro-lifers accepted their second-class-citizen status in the GOP. Then along came Trump, a man who doesn\u2019t care what the Republican establishment thinks. He has embraced the pro-life movement in a way no other president has. In 2018, he became ….<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

Read more at washingtonpost.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

History is being made on Capitol Hill this week. No, I\u2019m not talking about the presidential impeachment trial; that\u2019s been done before. I\u2019m talking about President Trump\u2019s\u00a0decision\u00a0to become the first U.S. president to speak in person at the March for …<\/p>\n

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