In a post on Truth Social on Friday, former President Donald Trump said that if he is elected this November, his “administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights.”
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “reproduction rights” are defined as “the rights of women as individuals to control and make decisions relating to reproduction, esp. with regard to contraception and abortion.”
During his first term as president, Trump vowed to appoint conservative justices to the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. Trump kept his promise, resulting in the historic Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, which gave abortion legislative power back to the individual states.
Since losing his re-election bid in 2020, Trump has gradually softened his stance on abortion, especially as the nation moves closer to the November election.
Nevertheless, Trump’s opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, has proven far more liberal on the issue, telling voters at the Democratic National Convention this week that “when Congress passes a bill to restore reproductive freedoms, as president of the United States, I will proudly sign it in to law.”
Christians, some of whom endorsed the former president’s policies in the past, were quick to push back on Trump’s post.
Ed Stetzer, Outreach Magazine editor-in-chief and dean of Talbot School of Theology, responded to Trump by sharing an article he wrote, titled “What’s a Pro-Life Christian To Do in This Election?”
“When the party dropped the language (and ignored the pro-life leaders who spoke up), I said, ‘I’ve voted for a convictional pro-life candidate in every presidential election since I was allowed to vote,” Stetzer wrote in the article, which was published on ChurchLeaders. “It’s not a political choice, it’s a moral choice. I’ll vote pro-life again this time, because the unborn still matter.’”
“I still will,” he added. “Most evangelical Christians will factor in the life issue, because for them, like me, life is a paramount issue.”
“I encourage you to value the unborn as well,” Stetzer wrote. “I don’t tell people how to vote—that’s binding the conscience in ways with which I am not comfortable, but facts are our friends. And these are the facts.”
“However, I will say this: The unborn deserve better, and I’ll use my vote accordingly,” he concluded.
