President Trump takes office: Here are six key promises he made on abortion, marriage, and liberty
by Pete Baklinski, LifeSite:
President Donald Trump in his inaugural address spoke of the “new vision [that] will govern our land,” promising that the “time for empty talk is over” and that “now arrives the hour of action.”
While he did not specifically mention moral issues like abortion and same-sex “marriage” in his address, the “new vision” he laid out in the campaign included key promises on those issues.
Here is a list of the top life-and-family promises Trump made while on the campaign trail.
1. Trump promises to appoint pro-life judges
When pro-life and pro-family Justice Antonin Scalia died last February, opening a vacancy in the Supreme Court, Trump promised on numerous occasions that if he were elected he would appoint pro-life justices to the bench.
When Trump was asked in the final presidential debate if he wanted the court to overturn the 1973 abortion decision Roe v. Wade, he said that it would happen “automatically” because of his appointments.
“Well, if we put another two or perhaps three justice on, that’s really what’s going to be, that will happen. And that’ll happen automatically, in my opinion, because I am putting pro-life justices on the court,” he said.
Trump confirmed in an Oct. 27, 2016 interview with EWTN that he was going to appoint judges who are pro-life:
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