Trump/Vance Must Undo the Harm Caused by the RNC Platform, by Peter Wolfgang

By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture, July 22, 2024

Peter Wolfgang is president of Family Institute of Connecticut Action, a Hartford-based advocacy organization whose mission is to encourage and strengthen the family as the foundation of society. His work has appeared in The Hartford Courant, the Waterbury Republican-American, Crisis Magazine, Columbia Magazine, the National Catholic Register, CatholicVote, Catholic World Report, the Stream and Ethika Politika. He lives in Waterbury, Conn., with his wife and their seven children. The views expressed on Catholic Culture are solely his own

Pro-lifers should not have been so shocked by the setbacks that the right to life has suffered since the Dobbs ruling. A backlash for repealing Roe v. Wade was inevitable, regardless of whomever it was who overturned it.

For nearly fifty years many Americans organized their lives under the false belief that abortion was a constitutional right. A half-century of genocidal evil has warped our nation. We have much work ahead of us to undo the harm.

Thus it is that the pro-life cause finds itself in a precarious political environment at the present moment. We must accept that politicians who lean our way will have to do some fancy dancing if our cause (and their political futures) are to survive.

But there is a difference between recognizing a political reality and being reconciled to it. There is a difference between making a prudential compromise regarding one’s principles and throwing out those principles altogether. …

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