The anti-abortion extremists at WorldNetDaily aren’t quite sure how to handle Donald Trump’s moderating stance on the issue. Michael Brown criticized that stance on abortion but later punted on further criticism because getting Trump elected transcends hypocrisy, while Michael Nedderman argued that the assassination attempt on Trump was a direct result of that moderation. A Sept. 7 article by Bob Unruh, meanwhile, touted one anti-abortion activist’s moderation on Trump:
President Donald Trump has moderated his pro-life position since eight years ago, when he was described as strongly pro-life. Of late, he’s admitted the possibility for early abortions, within limits.
But he’s been under criticism for changing his policy at all.
And that’s not entirely fair, according one of the more prominent pro-life organizations in the country, Operation Rescue, run by chief Troy Newman, who long has been integral in America’s fight against abortion.
It’s because society has seen a drastic shift in recent years, largely prompted by the nonstop campaign from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on behalf of the members of the lucrative abortion industry.
In a statement, Newman said, “As the saying goes, ‘politics is downstream from culture.’ Unfortunately, ‘woke’ pro-abortion influencers have been dumping anti-life sewage into our society’s ‘river’ for years. This has polluted our culture worse than Lake Erie in the 1960s and shifted politics away from the ideals championed by the first Trump administration that boldly promoted the sanctity of human life.”
He pointed out that just before the 2016 vote, Gallup showed 46% of Americans identified as pro-life.
Newman went on to let Newman blame the culture, not Trump, for abortion moderation:
He said since Roe was created, five decades have passed and still the culture’s love affair with abortion exists.
“Although the pro-life movement has been responsible for closing 70% of the abortion clinics, saving millions of children, and electing scores of pro-life politicians, the disappointing result is that the American population is more pro-abortion than ever,” he said.
“We also must stop pointing fingers at politicians like President Trump, expecting them to meet ideals that are unreasonable in the current hostile political and social climate – a climate that our own ministries have failed to mitigate,” he said.
He said seminaries and churches today, while describing themselves as Christian, advocate for the wanton destruction of the unborn.
“If we are to ever create a government that values and protects innocent life, we must start in our own homes, churches and communities. The purified water of our own lives and movement would then flow downward into proper public governance. For streams do not run backwards.”
Unruh didn’t mention Newman’s history of anti-abortion extremism, which includes his Operation Rescue helping to enable Scott Roeder’s murder of abortion doctor George Tiller by sharing Tiller’s whereabouts with him.
Still, it’s a sign that WND is so desperate to get Trump elected that it will forgive his stated moderation on abortion — presumably because they know he lies about everything. Indeed, Unruh made a point of noting that “Trump kept his campaign promises, appointing Supreme Court justices who eventually overturned the faulty Roe v. Wade and also denied Title X tax money to abortion industry giant Planned Parenthood.”