(OPINION) Leaders of pro-life advocacy groups are celebrating former President Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election, citing his win as evidence that the American people do not support the unfettered abortion access endorsed by the Democrats.
In a statement published Wednesday, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser reacted to the results of the election, which she noted was the first presidential contest to take place after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision determining that the U.S. Constitution does not contain a right to abortion.
In Tuesday’s election, the Republican ticket of Trump and Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, defeated the Democratic ticket of Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.
“In the first presidential election since Dobbs, Americans have rejected the Democrats’ no-limits abortion agenda. Democrats led by Kamala Harris and Tim Walz went ‘all in’ on abortion as their number one issue.
In the general election alone, they spent over half a billion dollars on ads attacking pro-life Republicans and claiming limits on abortion kill women. Their lies failed,” she said.
Referring to Harris’ remarks during an interview last month where she said that she doesn’t support religious exceptions to a nationwide abortion mandate, Dannenfelser commented, “Millions learned the truth that the Democrats would force Americans to pay for and participate in abortions against their will, with no exceptions, and even leave babies who survive failed abortions to die.”
Dannenfelser added: “SBA Pro-Life America’s paramount goal for this cycle was to deny Democrats the chance to pass a national all-trimester abortion mandate and wipe out protections for babies and women in all 50 states.
While the abortion lobby flooded airwaves with misinformation, our team hit the ground — making 4 million visits to persuadable and low-turnout voters in eight battleground states and reaching 10 million voters overall to expose the Democrats’ extremism.”
“Time after time, these crucial conversations change minds and change votes that make the difference in close elections. We succeeded,” she added.
In subsequent comments posted to X Wednesday night, Dannenfelser maintained that “This election proves that abortion wasn’t the Democrats’ silver bullet,” she continued, noting that despite spending “half a billion dollars in abortion TV ads this election, they still lost the presidency, the Senate and potentially the House.”
Describing “their extreme abortion agenda” as “out of step with Americans,” Dannenfelser asserted that “most Americans support early, reasonable limits on abortion.”
“In the first presidential election since Dobbs, it’s clear that aborting our nation’s children isn’t the galvanizing issue that Democrats and the mainstream media insisted it would be,” she concluded.
National Right to Life President Carol Tobias offered a similar analysis in a statement reacting to Trump’s victory. “Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, and the Democratic Party have taken the most extreme abortion position possible, including support for unlimited abortions throughout pregnancy. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz support abortion anytime, anywhere, and under any circumstances,” she asserted.
