Dobbs Was Only the Beginning | @NRO https://t.co/p07f6IfT3G— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) June 24, 2024
"Donald Trump, I REBUKE you in the name of the Deep State and the GOP establishment. #biden2024!"
Posted on 06/24/2024 4:23:04 PM PDT by conservative98
The former vice president condemned Trump’s positioning on abortion in an op-ed (for the National Review), even as he didn’t mention his one-time boss by name.
"We must work to advance the sanctity of life at every level, state and federal," Pence said. | Morry Gash/AP
By KIERRA FRAZIER
06/24/2024 04:13 PM EDT
Former Vice President Mike Pence revived his call for a nationwide abortion ban on Monday — the two-year anniversary of the landmark Dobbs decision — taking an implicit shot at former President Donald Trump in the process.
In an op-ed in the conservative magazine National Review, Pence wrote that leaving abortion up to the states, which is Trump’s stated policy, is “to tolerate the height of injustice.”
“We must work to advance the sanctity of life at every level, state and federal, though some in my party may disagree,” Pence wrote. “There is no reason for conservatives to abandon the fight for life at the federal level and focus exclusively on the states. We can and should do both.”
It is the former vice president’s latest public rebuke of his one-time boss, who he does not mention by name in the piece. The divide between the two illustrates the difficulty the Republican Party has had talking about abortion rights since the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, which Pence called a “historic victory 50 years in the making.”
Pence pushed for a nationwide ban on the medical procedure at 15 weeks of gestation when he was making a bid for the White House. Trump, however, said abortion should be left to the states in a bid to avoid alienating swing voters.
Pence declined to endorse the former president earlier this year, and a month later called Trump’s abortion stance a “slap in the face.” Two days later, Trump responded on Truth Social that Pence “never felt I would be able to kill Roe v Wade” and that his former vice president “has been getting very bad advice,” mocking his presidential polling numbers.
“We have also achieved what the pro-life movement fought to get for 49 years, and we’ve gotten abortion out of the federal government and back to the states, the way everybody and all legal scholars always said it should be,” Trump told a crowd of conservative Christians on Saturday.
Trump also said he supports access to in vitro fertilization after the Alabama Supreme Court imperiled access to the procedure in the state earlier this year. Pence said in the past that he supports fertility treatments, citing his and his wife’s struggles with infertility. But when the Alabama decision came down, Pence, along with John Mize, CEO of Americans United for Life, said the Alabama Supreme Court made the “morally right” decision.
Pence has long been against abortion. When he was a representative in the House, Pence introduced legislation for three legislative sessions in a row that would have prevented any entity that provides abortion from receiving funds through Title X.
“We took one crucial step closer to being a more compassionate nation the day Roe was wiped away,” Pence wrote in the National Review op-ed. “Now the question facing the conservative movement, and our nation as a whole, is where we go from here.”
Dobbs Was Only the Beginning | @NRO https://t.co/p07f6IfT3G— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) June 24, 2024
"Donald Trump, I REBUKE you in the name of the Deep State and the GOP establishment. #biden2024!"
There’s an opportunity for spontaneous combustion if I ever saw one.
He’s even more pure than I thought!
” conservative magazine National Review” Ha Ha Ha Ha. Remember this cover?
https://www.vox.com/2016/1/21/10812402/national-review-cover-trump
What a scoundrel Pence is.
The snake in the tent.
Nope. It's up to the states to decide whether they want to legalize abortion.
No federal ban.
Trash. Total fake. His “never be alone with a female” in the workplace act is childish. To me that means in the past his wife caught him getting out of line, or that she sets the rules in his household.
He’s one of those typical church types that always say they are only “doing what god told them” in a cowardly way to avoid responsibility. He did that on J6 when he was part of the Pelosi/McConnell Junta to overthrow Trump.
And never forget, when the pussygate tape came out in October 2016, he conspired with Paul Ryan and Rinsed Penis (Rience Prebus) to force Trump off the ticket and “reluctantly” take over.
Pence was also the POS who went on TV and LIED about Mike Flynn. Trump was then in the impossible position of his veep calling his National Security Advisor a liar. He was buying into the Russiagate “dossier” also and was a believer that Trump would be gone in a few months and HE would take over.
He’s a complete POS, and fake Christian IMO.
How cute. He thinks that there are people that give a (redacted) what this idiot has to say.
He spoke at the funeral of Ravi Zacharias to boot but I don’t hold that too much against him. Just in retrospect a mistake.
FAUX CHRISTIAN!!
Pence? Who dat? Is he someone we should all know? 😋
I rebuke Pence, mentioning him.
The smug bastard hasn’t a clue as to how many people hate his guts and hope he burns in hell.
“Former Vice President Mike Pence revived his call for a nationwide abortion ban....”
Winning the election is the goal just now. For Trump to come out foursquare for an abortion ban when the bill will never pass Congress as presently configured is useless virtue signaling.
That new country music song about abortion is much more effective in reducing abortions than a speech by the cowardly, spineless Pence. Pence is so bold when it only involves talking.
Nobody friggin cares what Mike McRomBush has to say.
Pence knows this rhetoric fuels turnout for the Rats.
Instead of the polarizing grandstanding on abortion just prior to a POTUS election, the message should concern the Rats’ demonization of motherhood, young families, and the marital bond the Country needs so desperately.
Women can certainly pursue the academic and career opportunities, but that shouldn’t be positioned as something that replaces the natural, biological progression of the family. The Rats aim to destroy the young American family, and that malevolent agenda must come to an end.
I did not know Pence was referring to Trump until Politico told me he was referring to Trump.
How many abortion decisions does the federal government NOW make each year? I was thinking ZERO, before I read this.
As to National Review being Conservative on the abortion issue...
When I stopped reading National Review Online about 20 years ago, because of their pro-massive immigration and pro-Amnesty philosophy, NRO had just one staff writer (cannot recall her name) who supported a total abortion ban.
Almost all of the other NRO staff writers avoided the subject entirely.
Benedict Pence is approaching lil Paulie Ryno territory for treachery.
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