He hasn’t thought about it for 30 consecutive minutes in the past 39 years.
Trump has said he came from a social circle in which abortion just never came up.
I believe that. I am sure he couldn’t tell the story of how it became “legal,” and what, constitutionally, we can do about it.
But then, neither can the people who run the “March for Life.” The official purpose of the MfL is still lobbying for the utterly futile “Paramount Human Life Amendment.”
I have been convinced for thirty years that the constitutionally sound way to “reverse” Roe, Doe, etc., is nullification by the people to whom the decisions are actually addressed—which is not the President and not the Congress, but the GOVERNORS. Who can DISOBEY Roe and Doe? Not women. Not Congress. Not the President. (It was getting arrested that set my mind going—I knew the police were committing mortal sin. And who was ultimately responsible for the orders to arrest rescuers? The governor! It is the governor of each state who can directly disobey Roe, Doe, etc.
I discussed this proposition with Judge Bork, and he agreed heartily. In fact, he seemed to think it was painfully obvious.
The pro-life movement should, on January 22, 1973, have turned its focus on the governors. The bishops should have demanded nullification by the governors. The bishops’ conference first statement on Roe and Doe called them “null,” and correctly said that all public officials, at all levels, had the duty to behave as if the decisions did not exist. It was a forthright statement of Catholic moral teaching. But it was just words.
Instead, they wasted 25 years and tens of millions of dollars on the HLA. Meanwhile, snuggling and nuzzling with pro-abortion Democrats. To this day.