Record-breaking illegal immigration is not what President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris focused on Tuesday when, during the New Hampshire primary, they made their first joint campaign appearance of the year.
The topic was abortion when Biden and Harris shared a stage in Virginia with a banner behind them in bold white letters declaring “Restore Roe.”
Biden told women in attendance that Donald Trump, who was winning the primary that night and appears a lock to face Biden in a rematch for the White House, is to blame for restrictive access to abortion.
Trump, however, has gone on record as opposing a national abortion ban.
However, when the Supreme Court in the summer of 2022 voted to return regulation of abortion to the states, all three Trump-appointed justices voted with the majority.
“They’re trying to find something that works with the Populist movement,” Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Georgia) said on Washington Watch Wednesday.
McCormick is also a medical doctor, serving mostly in emergency rooms, and a former Marine helicopter pilot.
He said Democrats are “on the losing side of the budget, the debt, with crime, the border, with energy and education and smaller government. They’re on the wrong side with this too. Frankly, most of America does not want to see late-term abortions.”
He conceded that “maybe” the majority of Americans want some sort of choice as opposed to an all-out ban on abortion.
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, seven states have had abortion rights on their ballots and those rights have passed every time.
The most notable pro-abortion vote last November was Ohio’s decision to make abortion rights part of its constitution.
“That’s not going to win an election by itself, and certainly I think over time, when we find our morality and when we find what's right, what's good for human dignity, for the rights of women who are unborn as well as born, I think we'll be on the right side of history on this,” McCormick told show host Tony Perkins.
McCormick said people who might think they prefer abortion need to consider how their lives would be impacted – or not impacted – if certain people weren’t around.
“Everybody alive has been given that opportunity to live and make their choices and to succeed or fail as Americans," he observed. "That’s being taken away from both men and women who are unborn.”
McCormick says more needs to be done to educate women on adoption as a path instead of abortion.
“There’s a long list of people waiting to give these children a really good home, a really good chance of not just surviving but thriving people in society," he said. "My best friends, they’re some of the most highly productive, moral, most beneficial-to-society-kind-of-people you could ever meet. If they’d not been given a chance, I wouldn’t have had people who would literally take a bullet for me, who would take the controls when something went wrong in the aircraft when I was a Marine Corp pilot or somebody who would give you their last dollar when you’re in need.
“These are the kind of people that are not going to be there for us, your children’s best friends, leaders in the church, leaders in society, in politics, scientists, doctors, you name it,” he said.
Some favor exceptions for abortion when a mother’s life is in danger, but McCormick said that if a mother is going to die it’s almost certain that the child will also die.
“There isn’t a case you can draw up where you can keep the baby alive,” he said.
There is one popular hypothetical situation where abortion supporters often land, McCormick said. He described a situation where a pregnant woman is injured in a car crash.
“If you deliver the baby, you actually give the mother a better chance of survival, not by aborting the baby but by actually delivering the baby, but if the mother dies, the baby will die,” McCormick said.
The story of a walking miracle
McCormick then presented one real-life story in which a pregnant woman whose life was in danger chose life for her child, and God took control.
“You had a woman with metastatic cancer, hundreds of tumors all over her body, including her brain and her liver. Metastatic," he said. "She was early in her pregnancy, and she was told, ‘If you get an abortion, we could try to give you chemo now, try to get you radiated. That will extend your life. Otherwise, you’re probably going to die a lot faster by proceeding with this.' She made a choice to keep the baby, at her own peril, that she would progress more rapidly without the treatment. She delivered the baby."
Upon completion of the pregnancy aggressive chemotherapy and radiation treatments began, and the woman survived.
“Now she’s a miracle. She’s cancer-free, almost a decade out. She’s had two more children, all possible because she made the right choice,” McCormick said. “It’s a story created by God to show why life is important and why he is in control.”
