Pro-Family Conservative Coalition Questions Trump on Abortion, Gays, Religious Liberty

By Anika Smith Published on February 18, 2016

Donald Trump has refused to meet with a coalition of pro-family Americans, but that hasn’t stopped them from posing their questions to the Republican candidate.

This week 26 pro-family organizations signed a letter to Trump asking him several questions he may be avoiding as he courts socially conservative voters during a contentious primary season.

“After years of describing yourself as ‘pro-choice in every respect’ – even supporting partial-birth abortion – you now say that you are pro-life.” After going through one of Trump’s more confusing statements on how he became pro-life because a baby who was nearly aborted ended up being a “superstar,” the letter asks, “How do you square your new position on life with your statements in 2015 supporting continued taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion seller?”

In another red flag for those fighting for the right to life, Trump recently recommended his sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, for Supreme Court Justice. Trump Barry has explicitly pro-abortion views. As a federal judge, she overturned the New Jersey Partial-Birth Abortion Ban, writing that it “burdened a woman’s constitutional right to obtain an abortion.” The letter asks Trump, “How can we trust you to nominate judges who will respect the constitutional limits on judicial power and uphold the sanctity of human life?” (Since Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, the power of the president to nominate justices has gained new importance.)

The letter also points out that Trump claims to support religious freedom, “yet a leading gay-activist organization calls you ‘one of the best, if not the best, pro-gay Republican candidates to ever run for the presidency’ — particularly because of your ‘standout position’ when it comes to legislation that forces Christian business owners — and others of faith — to either betray their conscience or lose their business. How do you reconcile these contradictory positions?”

There’s much more. The full letter is here.

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