pro-abortion

Melania Trump Defends Abortion in Her Memoir

Donald Trump, the nominee of the party of family values, lives in his palatial estate Mar-a-Lago, that’s adjacent to one of his golf clubs. His trophy wife, Melania, lives in New York, so she can be close to the love of her life, her son Barron, who attends New York University.

Melania has been MIA from the Trump campaign, she’s yet to make a single campaign appearance with her husband. She assiduously avoids making any public appearances with her spouse, even failing to provide moral support by attending any of his court trials.

The spouses of political candidates stand by their partners, nod in agreement while they deliver their campaign speeches and sometimes make short remarks that are in perfect alignment with them.

Melania shocked the MAGA supporters of her husband by declaring herself pro-choice.

In an excerpt of her new self-titled memoir, she (or rather her ghostwriter) wrote:

“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.”

This pro-choice stance clashes violently with the views of her husband’s white evangelical supporters. Trump pandered to his evangelical followers by appointing vehemently anti-abortion judges to the Supreme Court.

Likely Trump shares the pro-choice position of his wife, but he pretends to be anti-abortion out of political expediency. But he must be furious at his wife for expressing her views on abortion just a month before the election. Who would have thunk that Melania was responsible for the October surprise that derailed his campaign.

Melania must really hate the orange buffoon as much as I do.

Evangelicals Should Stop Using Abortion as a Wedge Issue

The Old Testament is silent on the abortion issue, and Jesus Christ never mentioned it, but that doesn’t stop evangelicals from pushing the false narrative that the church has always considered it a sin in the sight of God.

When Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in 1973, Roman Catholics stood alone in Christendom in their crusade to overturn the landmark Supreme Court decision granting women sovereignty over their own bodies.

Protestants (including evangelicals), and Jews (including Orthodox Jews) hardly considered Roe v. Wade an existential threat to their respective religions. It wasn’t until the late 1970’s that evangelicals the likes of Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Chuck Colson joined forces with Catholics to use abortion as a wedge issue to advance their religious and political objectives.

Evangelicals may believe that salvation is by faith in Jesus Christ alone, but if an evangelical holds a pro-choice position, he/she is considered a heretic who isn’t really saved.

Evangelicals should welcome pro-choice believers into their tent, they shouldn’t allow an issue that isn’t central to the faith divide them. And they certainly shouldn’t demonize pro-choice Christians by referring to them as pro-abortion, nobody is pro-abortion. Pro-choice doesn’t mean pro-abortion, it means pro letting a woman make critical choices about her body and her health. There are critical issues facing evangelicals and society at large: climate change, COVID, contamination of the Gospel message by mixing it with politics and the rise of anti-democratic movements at home and abroad. Abortion isn’t one of them.