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Donald Trump advocates against abortion A Christian advocacy group will defend “innocent life.”

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Donald Trump vaguely revisited a topic that Democrats want to center around this year’s presidential contest when he pushed a Christian organization that is adamantly opposed to abortion on Monday.

In a recorded speech, the former president and likely Republican nominee commended the attendees of The Danbury Institute’s gathering, which is being held in Indianapolis in tandem with the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual convention. The recently established institute is a coalition of Christian organizations, churches, and other groups that want to outlaw abortion completely.

On Monday, a group of speakers in person strengthened their opposition to abortion, while a prominent Southern Baptist leader advocated for a staunch stance against in vitro fertilization. IVF is a “commodification of the embryo” that violates human dignity, according to Albert Mohler, president of the main institution affiliated with the SBC. In Alabama, for example, where a state Supreme Court decision declared that frozen embryos are children protected IVF physicians from prosecution and civil lawsuits, he took issue with clergy and politicians who supported the practice.

Mohler stated, “We’re going to discover just how pro-life the pro-life movement is.”

Despite having chosen three of the justices who overruled Roe v. Wade, Trump has often claimed responsibility for the overturning of a federally guaranteed right to an abortion. However, he has refrained from endorsing a nationwide abortion ban, stating that he prefers to leave the decision to the states. Trump disagrees with Mohler and is in favor of IVF access.

Trump commended the crowd for their “tremendous devotion to God and Country” in his taped remarks, adding that everyone must work together to protect their values, which include free speech, religious liberty, the right to life, and America’s history and customs.

“Democrat voting is simply not possible. They oppose religion. Specifically, they oppose your faith,” Trump declared. “You have to go out and vote; you cannot vote for Democrats.”

Republicans in general and Southern Baptists in particular disagree on abortion policy; some favor gradual approaches while others demand outright prohibitions. The majority of Americans, according to polls conducted in recent years, are in favor of some kind of access to abortion. Since Roe v. Wade was reversed, abortion rights organizations have won multiple statewide elections, even ones in states with strong conservative majorities like Kansas and Ohio.

The Southern Baptist Convention, like the Republican Party, has been progressively moving to the right since the 1980s. The organization’s members led the larger religious movement that backed Republican presidents all the way from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump. One of the sponsors of the event, the Conservative Baptist Network, seeks to advance rightward the conservative denomination.

Despite their criticism of President Bill Clinton’s extramarital affairs during the 1990s, evangelicals, including Southern Baptists, have backed Trump. This has persisted in the face of accusations of sexual misconduct, several divorces, and most recently, his conviction on 34 counts of conspiring to rig the 2016 election by paying hush money to a porn star who claimed to have had sex with him. Trump spoke on the same day he was appearing virtually for a required pre-sentencing interview with New York probation officers.

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For many Southern Baptists, he represents the only way out of a Democratic agenda they detest.

The Danbury Institute’s H. Sharayah Colter stated in a statement that Trump has “demonstrated a willingness to protect the value of life even when politically unpopular” and that the presidential contest was a “binary choice.”

Not to be outdone, Mohler, the dean of Louisville, Kentucky’s Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a former vocal opponent of Clinton, attacked Democrats in a letter following Trump’s conviction for their support of transgender rights.

Whatever you think of Donald Trump’s sex scandals, Mohler wrote, “he doesn’t confuse male and female.” While he criticized Trump’s trial and conviction on Monday, other speakers touched on themes of Christian nationalism—a merging of Christian and American identity.

In an interview, Trump stated that he would not sign a federal law outlawing abortion and that “the people are deciding and in many ways, it’s a beautiful thing to watch” in reference to how certain states are protecting abortion rights while others are restricting them.

Unlike many other Republicans who ultimately dropped out of the race for president, Trump had retreated from supporting any kind of national abortion restriction for more than a year before he made his announcement this spring. Trump has stated time and time again that the topic can be politically complex and that he would “negotiate” a law that would include exceptions for rape, incest, and mother protection.

Democrats and the campaign of President Joe Biden have attempted to link Trump to the most conservative state-level abortion prohibitions in addition to a recent verdict by the Alabama Supreme Court that would have limited access to widely-popular reproductive techniques such as in vitro fertilization.

A spokesman for Joe Biden’s campaign, Sarafina Chitika, stated that “four more years of Donald Trump means empowering organizations like The Danbury Institute who want to ban abortion nationally and punish women who have abortions.” “Trump boasts that he overturned Roe, believes that the severe state prohibitions that are already in place are “working really wonderfully,” and says he will sign a federal ban on abortion if given the opportunity. This November, the stakes are as follows.

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A representative for the Trump campaign, Karoline Leavitt, responded to questions over the candidate’s attendance before The Danbury Institute by saying that Trump “has been very clear: he supports the rights of states to determine the laws on this issue and supports the three exceptions for rape, incest, and life of the mother.”

As demonstrated by his recent speech at the Libertarian Convention, his meetings with the unions, and his efforts to campaign in various areas across the nation, Leavitt added, “President Trump is committed to addressing groups with diverse opinions on all of the issues.”

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