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It has been no ordinary week. We thank God that President Trump survived the assassination attempt and we repeat here, for the sake of our email recipients, what we shared a few days ago on X.
We also pray for the other victims of the shooting, their loved ones, and all those affected by this heinous crime.
On Monday, Washington pro-lifers shelved what had been a planned attempt to restore the pro-life language that had been stripped from the GOP platform. As Tony Perkins makes clear, that battle will be revisited at some point in the future.
And not only at the national level. We note that the CT GOP's delegation to the Republican National Convention is reportedly pleased with the watering down of the party's pro-life plank:
"Proto praised the platform’s abortion plank, saying it better reflected the long-held views of many Republicans — including those in Connecticut — and pushed back on socially-conservative critics who described it as abandoning one of the core beliefs of many of the party’s voters. 'At the end of the day, the values of Connecticut are different than the values of Arkansas, or Utah or Washington or any other state,' he said."
Here's the thing. Ben Proto, the chairman of the CT GOP, is wrong. "Connecticut values" are much more closely aligned with pro-life states than we have long been led to believe.
You would expect the Family Institute of Connecticut to say such a thing. Except it is not just FIC who is saying it. It is the Hartford Courant who said it, in an eye-popping finding from a reporter who drilled down on the polling:
"The attitudes recorded in the poll suggest that 46% of residents would support Connecticut’s adoption of the abortion bans and restrictions that have swept the nation since the Dobbs decision."
This is the first time a mainstream media outlet has ever reported what we have long known to be a fact about Connecticut: the state is a lot more pro-life than we have been led to believe. Indeed, the whole point of the Courant's front page story is that pro-abortion energy in Connecticut is "waning."
This was the previously-unspoken truth behind the victories FIC and our allies racked up this year: defeating the abortion amendment to our state constitution, saving the pro-life identity of Connecticut's religious hospitals, bringing thousands to the Capitol for the third annual CT March for Life, and so forth.
Even now, there are two attacks on unborn life in Connecticut that FIC and our allies are fighting against behind the scenes. This morning, Catholic Conference head Chris Healy told the Gary Byron Show about one of them: an effort to legalize late-term abortion, and even post-birth infanticide, by administrative regulation. Chris and Peter Wolfgang co-signed a letter yesterday in our ongoing effort to stop it.
The bottom line is this: Connecticut is growing ever-more pro-life at a time when both parties seem intent on throwing the unborn child under the bus. Our job in the months--indeed, years ahead--is to keep the pro-life momentum going and to encourage politicians of all stripes to restore legal protection for the unborn.
We can do it--with your help. And the biggest bang for your buck is right now, during our Summer Matching Grant Campaign. Any donation you give will be doubled by a generous benefactor.
