Ron DeSantis Says Unborn Children Have a God-Given “Right to Life”
In a new interview, pro-life Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says the Declaration of Independence makes it clear that unborn children have a God-given right to life.
DeSantis, who is running for the Republican nomination for president, spoke with the Catholic News Agency about a range of social issues, including pro-life.
“The Declaration of Independence says that we are endowed not by government but by God with certain inalienable rights,” DeSantis said. “And the beginning of that is the right to life itself.”
The governor signed a 15-week bill to protect babies from late-term abortions but said he appreciated being able to sign the heartbeat law so more babies could be protected from abortions.
“The heartbeat bill that was done provides more robust protections and will end up saving a lot of lives,” he noted. “But I think what we’ve also done in Florida and what doesn’t get as much attention is we understand that parents are in a situation now where it is expensive to raise kids.”
“It factors into their calculation about whether they want to even try to have a family now,” DeSantis continued. “So we’ve done things like all baby items in Florida are tax-free. So diapers, wipes, cribs, strollers, formula, all that — tax-free.”
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Earlier this month, DeSantis said he was disappointed that former President Donald trump said the heartbeat law was too harsh.
“This is a guy that was at the March for Life in January of 2020, and he said that all life was a gift from God, he said the unborn was made in the image of God, he said that there should be protections. That’s what he was saying when he was president at the March for life. Now he’s saying it’s a terrible, terrible thing,” DeSantis said. “So, how do you reconcile those two views? Did he flip flop? Did he not believe it at the time?”
“But then to go even further, he actually has said, elevate this issue to the federal government,” DeSantis continued. “What he wants to do is find a time – I think he floated, like, 18 or 20 weeks. Have that be the limit. But then override any protections that states have done that are more than that. Well, that is not going to be advancing the cause of life. So, I think, for pro-life voters in Iowa, Donald Trump is taking positions that are way different than what he professed to believe when he first ran for president in 2016.”
CNN host Kaitlan Collins, a former White House correspondent for the Daily Caller, asked if DeSantis was saying Trump wasn’t pro-life.
“When you’re saying that pro-life protections are a terrible thing, by definition you are not pro-life. When you say that you want to have a federal law at 18 weeks or 20 weeks that would override a state like Iowa that has enacted pro-life protections, that would mean more abortions, not less abortions because very few abortions are happening that late anyway,” DeSantis told Collins. “So, he has flip-flopped on this issue. I don’t know if it’s because of political convenience or this is where he always believed in. But here’s the thing: Some issues are pretty fundamental. How do you flip flop on something like the sanctity of life?”
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