Editorial by The Catholic Herald: Trump Triumphs and Returns to the White House With a Catholic Vice President

By The Catholic Herald, November 6, 2024

The US election has turned out to be not quite as close-run as the pundits and the pollsters predicted. The results are in, and they are decisive. In January Donald Trump will return to the White House as the next president; JD Vance, a Catholic convert, will be his vice president.

This is a momentous result, not least for Catholics and indeed for all who hold dear the protection of life in the womb. Kamala Harris’s only clear policy – there really were not many – was that she was pro-abortion in all circumstances, although this was usually expressed euphemistically in terms of her support for “women’s health” and “women’s reproductive rights”.

To paraphrase Ms Harris herself in her questioning of Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court, what other form of healthcare entails the destruction of another human being? What was also troubling was the plain suggestion that she would pack the Supreme Court in order to override the existing majority which did away with Roe v Wade and returned the abortion issue to individual US states. This would have been constitutionally wrong and disastrous for the protection of the unborn. Now this vexed issue will be decided in individual states, one way or another. …

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