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Trump-Vance: The Soft-Prolife Ticket, by Sean Fitzpatrick – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Trump-Vance: The Soft-Prolife Ticket, by Sean Fitzpatrick

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Trump greeting Vance during the RNC Monday night-image courtesy CSPAN

By Sean Fitzpatrick, Crisis Magazine, July 18, 2024

Sean Fitzpatrick is a senior contributor to Crisis and serves on the faculty of Gregory the Great Academy, a Catholic boarding school for boys in Pennsylvania.

 

J.D. Vance claims to be “100% prolife” and has often spoken well for the cause, but the recent softening of his prolife position is troubling.

Sean FitzpatrickAfter surviving an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania and glowing in the dismissal of the Florida classified documents case, Donald Trump announced his running mate at the Republican National Convention on Monday in Milwaukee: Senator James David Vance, of Ohio. It is an interesting choice for a few reasons—and not least among them, another instance of the Republican Party’s softer position on abortion.

With Trump’s second term, people are expecting a no-holds-barred administration and were ready for pretty much anything in the veep category, from Ron DeSantis to Tucker Carlson or Elon Musk to Hulk Hogan (why not?). At 39 years old, Senator Vance is a good deal younger than Donald Trump (giving them the widest gap in age of any candidates in history) and he is being hailed as part of the new, fresher face of the Republican Party. …

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