{"id":12606,"date":"2024-09-09T01:27:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T01:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12606"},"modified":"2024-09-09T01:58:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T01:58:31","slug":"speaking-pro-life-truth-to-both-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12606","title":{"rendered":"Speaking Pro-Life Truth to Both Parties"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/speaking-pro-life-truth-to-both-parties\/<\/a><\/p>\n

2024 | Week of September 9 | Radio Transcript #1583<\/h3>\n

The past couple of years have been quite the whirlwind for pro-lifers. June 24, 2022\u2014the day the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade<\/em> with the Dobbs<\/em> decision\u2014was just over two years ago, but may feel like a lifetime for ardent pro-life advocates.<\/p>\n

Back then, the mainstream media and much of the left would have had us all believe that the Dobbs<\/em> decision would totally end abortion \u2013 or, if using misleading euphemisms, would end \u201cwomen\u2019s health,\u201d \u201creproductive rights,\u201d or \u201creproductive freedom\u201d \u2013 in the United States for good. Of course, that has not been the case.<\/p>\n

The fight to overturn Roe<\/em> was necessary course to correct a grave judicial error that had enormous moral implications for our nation. The US Supreme Court got it wrong in 1973, as it had done before in other cases like Dred Scott<\/em>. Thankfully, with a mostly-conservative Supreme Court in 2022, Roe<\/em> was overturned. That mostly-conservative court was in large part thanks to then-President Donald Trump, with his appointments of Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.<\/p>\n

Since the Dobbs<\/em> decision, fourteen states have implemented either a total or near-total ban on abortion, with several other states enacting increased protections for preborn children. However, Wisconsinites know the fight is far from over since our state is not one of those fourteen.<\/p>\n

Instead, we have witnessed Governor Evers veto multiple pro-life bills over the last six years, culminating in the governor and Attorney General Josh Kaul asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to allow them to intervene in the court case brought by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin \u2013 a case in which the abortion giant asks the high court to find a right to abortion in the state constitution<\/p>\n

In Wisconsin and beyond, abortion is again taking the spotlight in national politics again. Recent headlines surrounding the GOP\u2019s and even the former president\u2019s stances on abortion are leaving many pro-life conservatives confused and concerned.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the Republican National Convention this summer, the RNC announced a change in its party platform which disappointed many pro-lifers. Whereas in previous years, the platform emphasized a goal to limit abortion at the federal level, this year, the party line seems to be moving towards a \u201cleave-it-to-the-states\u201d approach, as recently confirmed by comments made by both presidential and vice-presidential nominees, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance.<\/p>\n

To some, this feels like a major backslide in progress for pro-lifers after the success of the Dobbs<\/em> decision two years ago. Others are not as concerned and think that once successfully elected to the White House, the GOP ticket will change its tone and re-adopt a stronger pro-life stance.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Harris-Walz ticket is doubling down on its commitment to expand abortion at the national level if elected by signing the radical \u201cWomen\u2019s Health Protection Act\u201d which would nullify more than 1,300 pro-life laws around the nation, including laws we currently have place in Wisconsin that require parental consent for underage girls to receive abortions, that bar unlicensed individuals from performing surgical abortions, and that require an ultrasound prior to an abortion.<\/p>\n

Here is what\u2019s abundantly clear: pre-born children are being used as political pawns by both parties. In a recent commentary entitled, \u201cProtecting Life Is No Half-Measure,\u201d Family Research Council president Tony Perkins urges pro-lifers to stay the course. \u201cCan we truly be one nation when just over half the 50 states protect the unborn and half do not?\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica cannot and will not withstand being half for protecting life and half for taking life. We will be one thing or all the other. That is why we must not focus only on the presidential race, as important as it is. Every elected office matters. Be informed and be engaged.\u201d End quote. Perkins takes a stance that\u2019s helpful to biblically-voting citizens as we approach the ballot box this November.<\/p>\n

Yes, this election absolutely matters, and could very well be the tipping point \u2013 for better or for worse \u2013 of the nation. \u00a0But what we do in our own backyard, from our neighborhoods, to our counties, cities, and state offices is just as, if not more, critical.<\/p>\n

As Tony Perkins says, Christians must stay engaged. We must continue ministering to individuals of all political persuasions on behalf of our nation\u2019s most vulnerable: the preborn.<\/p>\n

For Wisconsin Family Council, this is Julaine Appling, reminding you that God, through the Prophet Hosea, said, \u201cMy people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n

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