“With Vote No on 4 Florida launching today and Gov. DeSantis’ leadership,” she said, “the pro-life coalition is united to stop the abortion industry.”
Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life, warned that the 2024 pro-abortion measures will “have devastating effects on the unborn and women in states after passing.”
Mancini told CNA that rather than being based on genuine support, the abortion industry’s victories thus far have been due to what she called “deceptive” messaging.
“Tragically, we have seen their efforts play out in many of the states, with millions of dollars from national pro-abortion special interest groups being funneled into misleading, fear-mongering pro-abortion campaigns,” Mancini said.
“These confuse and scare voters into approving state constitutional amendments which override any existing or future pro-life policies, even the most modest protections for women and children.”
Kristi Hamrick, a representative for Students for Life Action, told CNA that she believes the many abortion amendments popping up across the country are just “glorified get-out-the-vote efforts for Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.”
The Biden administration is aiming to use the issue of abortion to its electoral advantage this November. Since January, Vice President Kamala Harris has been making stops across the country on a “Reproductive Freedoms” tour, repeatedly slamming Republicans for passing abortion regulations.
During last week’s debate, former President Donald Trump argued that the Biden administration plans to “restore Roe” and bring about unlimited, late-term abortions, something that he said is out of step with what Americans want.
“[Biden is] willing to, as we say, rip the baby out of the womb in the ninth month and kill the baby. Nobody wants that to happen,” Trump said. “We don’t think that’s a good thing, we think it’s a radical thing. We think the Democrats are the radicals, not the Republicans.”
Hamrick contends that Democratic hopes to use the abortion amendments to increase voter turnout will be disappointed come November.
Citing a recent Rasmussen poll that found 66% of Americans oppose late-term abortion, Hamrick believes there is not as much enthusiasm for the abortion position as some Democrats hope.
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But to win, she said the pro-life movement needs to up its messaging.
“The focus needs to be on late-term abortion extremism because these [amendments] … offer basically unlimited abortion, taxpayer-funded abortion. They are radical and extreme,” she explained.
“We’re focusing on abortion extremism [and] late-term abortion and the inhumanity of that, and the fact that women are being harmed by the abortion environment that we’re allowing,” she added.
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