“We’re at a moment where we need a human rights advocate, someone who is dedicated to saving the lives of children and serving mothers in need. Every single candidate should be clear on how they plan to do that. It begins with focusing on the extremes of the other side, and ambition and common sense on our own. Anything later than a 15 week protection for babies in the womb (when science proves they can feel pain) as a national minimum standard makes no sense” – Susan B Anthony Pro-Life leader Marjorie Dannenfelser in a September 2023 statement to the Washington Post’s Aaron Blake on fat former President Trump’s calling abortion bans “a terrible mistake.”

“[Trump] built an enormous amount of trust with pro-life voters, as his presidency was the most consequential in American history for the pro-life cause” – Susan B Anthony Pro-Life leader Marjorie Dannenfelser in a January 2024 statement to the Washington Post’s Caroline Kitchener.

In response to Dannfelser’s first statement, we had written, “There is no fucking chance she or her minions are going to end up voting for anyone other than Trump next year when he’s the nominee. You don’t like that he’s pretending to ‘move to the center’ because he’s assuming correctly that he has the nomination locked away? What kind of dipshit who claims to be an activist fail to understand such a basic, entry-level example of fundamental political physics? She can at least take solace in the reality that Trump is almost guaranteed to sign a total national ban on abortion if he were to get reelected with GOP majorities in both chambers of Congress.”

And now the Post’s report says, verbatim, “In recent interviews and statements, leading antiabortion advocates are looking past what they characterize as purely political rhetoric – and plotting actions that they believe a Trump administration would take as early as next year to crack down on abortion.” But it’s not like anyone’s keeping score here on these sort of things.