Trump and Abortion at America Magazine

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2019/04/30/how-trump-able-exploit-abortion-issue-and-why-thats-bad-everyone
Father Sam Sawyer, SJ did an editorial about Trump pandering on abortion and how Democrats should respond. He clings to the line that Democrats should at least acknowledge the humanity of the child.

A few facts are important. The unborn have the same right to life vis-a-vie the federal and state governments as anyone else. They cannot be executed without due process of law. If their mother is pregnant, she cannot be executed. If they are killed in a violent crime against their mothers, the perpetrator cam be prosecuted. What they do not have is a right to protection from their mothers. Doing so would violate the rights of women as a class, which is prohibited under the 14th Amendment. The Congress, but not the states, can grant them personhood or allow them to be aborted. Indeed, the Unborn Victims of Violence Act now being debated specifically recognizes a right to abortion.

There can be no first trimester ban because you cannot selectively investigate abortions without also investigating all miscarriages. Selective enforcement is a prohibited due process violation. Period. Leaving that fact out us to defraud, which thou shalt not do.

The conservatives want to overturn all federal rights to be left alone by state government if they are in a protected class matters, aka privacy. This includes civil rights in housing, public accommodations, marriage, selective law enforcement, both by race and in sexual matters (including abortion and sodomy). Reactionaries want all these protections reversed, which is why appointing justices is an excuse to support Republicans. Success on one is success on all. It would effectively bring back Plessy, which would be unconscionable. Most judges and lawyers know this, although Fr. Sawyer does not. Offering this as a possibility is helping perpetrate a fraud.

Candidate Biden needs to pull the bishops up on this issue and end it. He must also promise to increase the child tax credit to $1000 a month, distributed with a $15 per hour wage and a minimum hour requirement and benefit for family wage earners. The unemployed should get this, even if they quit, are fired for cause or in training. The bishops should be shamed into not only endorsing this, but paying it without waiting for changes in law.

Most Republican Pro-lifers would reject any such measures to provide the kind of living wage by employers or the government by the Magisterium of Pope Pius XI. These are not optional teachings. Indeed, opposing such measures amounts to supporting abortion. If such measures are socialism, then make the most of it! It is still wrong to do so and it proves that the pro-choice movement is correct when they claim that the pro-life movement is anti-woman.

The Church needs to prove that contention wrong by condemning those who would oppose living wage measures. It should also celebrate all pregnancies, even among Catholic high school students. Shaming these young women for their sexuality is anti-life. It leads to abortion to cover such activities. You can't fight for life and condemn sex without, again, being correctly charged with being a misogynist.

Abortion has always been with us. It was a standard part of being a midwife. Abortion law never existed until obstetrics was the province of doctors. Where you find Satan is in the capitalists who pay too little for families with children to support themselves and their Republican cheerleaders.

Not paying a family wage such that abortion is necessary should make that employer as culpable for that abortion as the doctor performing it. Catholics who do not pay an adequate wage should consider themselves excommunicate.

Born alive bills that require extraordinary measures for any child, whether born in an abortion procedure or naturally cannot require extraordinary measures. These can never be required at any stage in life. Natural death is what happens when such measures are not used. Abandoning Catholic doctrine for political purposes is particularly shameful.

Telling the truth about abortion rights is not a sin. Ever. Recommending abortion in a specific case or stating that it is a positive good for society or young women is what is prohibited. Indeed, going against Church guidance in some cases in late term pregnancies is more befitting natural law reasoning and Christian charity than the knee jerk prohibition of all such cases.

Humanae Vitae was an asexual manifesto imposing their peculiar sexuality on the rest of us.

In the coming days, members of the Trump campaign will be called to testify to Congress about collusion. My former lawyer is on two if these committees. Rest assured that they will be asked about whether Russian hackers obtained the HRC briefing books, particularly about late term abortion, whether members of the campaign coordinated with the USCCB and Midwestern bishops about their response to these matters and any information they received about such collusion. This matter will come up now and during the 2020 campaign. We deserve to know what the Church is doing in our name and the effect it had in the outcome of this election and the debacle which followed. All will be laid bare. I promise.