Trump Owes Pro-Lifers Nothing—and That’s a Good Thing, by Darrick Taylor

By Darrick Taylor, Crisis Magazine, July 12, 2024

Darrick Taylor earned his PhD in History from the University of Kansas. He lives in Central Florida and teaches at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, FL. He also produces a podcast, Controversies in Church History, dealing with controversial episodes in the history of the Catholic Church.

Devout Catholics and their Protestant allies need to recognize that they no longer represent “the people,” and approach politics more transactionally.

Pro-lifers and other social conservatives have probably heard by now that the Trump campaign has insisted upon and apparently approved a party platform for the 2024 Republican Convention that makes little mention of abortion, other than to descry the late-term variety. Other issues important to social conservatives, such as religious liberty, also received short shrift. According to one source, when one Evangelical leader complained about the lack of concern for its issues, a Republican official told them, “Where else are your people going to go?”

Pro-life conservatives, which at this point mostly means Christian conservatives, have complained about this rather loudly on social media. Some think this a great betrayal by Republicans, while others blamed those who supported Donald Trump in the first place, despite his moral peccadillos and his obvious lack of personal belief in social conservative causes. And still some are complaining about pro-lifers’ “betrayal” of Trump, who delivered them the overturn of Roe v. Wade they sought for so long. …

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