In attacking the Syrian military airfield, President Trump has broken his oft-repeated promise to stay out of unnecessary wars; he has also ignored international law, domestic law, and the Constitution.
But consider now his statement regarding the missile strikes:
My fellow Americans, on Tuesday, Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad launched a horrible chemical weapons attack on innocent civilians using a deadly nerve agent. Assad choked out the lives of helpless men, women and children. It was a slow and brutal death for so many. Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. No child of God should ever suffer such horror.
I have underscored the latter part of his statement because in it he states his justification for his decision, whatever his promises, whatever the law .
Now let us consider the possibility of using that same justification to consider an equally bold step that would be consistent with Trump’s principles enunciated before and after his election, to wit:
“It was a slow and brutal death for so many. Even beautiful babies were cruelly murdered in this very barbaric attack. No child of God should ever suffer such horror.”
What does this passage vividly describe – eloquently, in fact – but abortion?
If Trump is willing to defy his own word, as well as constitutional, domestic, and international law regarding war, will he now use his presidential power to affirm his principles and bypass the politicized courts (whose overreach he has often disparaged) and unilaterally nullify Roe v. Wade and all subsequent federal court decisions which slavishly follow that case’s nullification of all state laws regarding abortion?
After all, “No child of God should ever suffer such horror.”
Addendum: If that’s too “extreme” (Trump always starts his negotiations by pushing too far, they say), consider that China’s government has forced Chinese women to have a third of a BILLION abortions since 1979. It’s proven. It’s policy. And they brag about it.
“No child of God should ever suffer such horror,” right?
OK, Mr. President: why are you sitting with Xi and laughing it up at Mar a Lago? Are Syrian babies worth more to the national interests of the United States than Chinese babies are?
11:22 am on April 8, 2017
