The corrupt corporate media and even some self-proclaimed pro-lifers feigned shock this week that those with the explicit goal of outlawing abortion were unsatisfied with former President Donald Trump’s declaration that the fate of unborn babies should be left “up to the states.”
When Trump released an official video Monday with mixed messaging on in vitro fertilization and abortion heading into the 2024 election, pro-life groups criticized him for failing to support federal limits on ending the lives of unborn babies. They pinned his “states’ rights” claim as a means of giving Democrats and abortion giants a free pass to wreak destruction on Republican states using deceptive ballot measures.
Corporate and some conservative media mouthpieces quickly painted that criticism as a political flip-flop rather than a goal that’s been at the forefront of the movement for more than 50 years. They acted like it was a bait and switch that pro-lifers were only partially satisfied with the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling as a victory for life in the womb.
“While there can be some sincere outrage over Trump’s callous flip-flop in an election year, most of the feigned shock is for show,” Time magazine asserted.
Corporate media had a similar reaction on a much greater scale in 2022 shortly after Sen. Lindsey Graham introduced legislation that would bring U.S. abortion law up to speed with most European countries, which strictly limit abortions somewhere around 12 weeks of gestation.
Only 37 percent of U.S. adults believe abortion should be
