North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson wants Republicans to take charge of the pro-life debate this year and stop letting bloodthirsty, manipulative Democrats dictate the terms to us.
Robinson has a track record of telling hard truths and challenging the lazy or cowardly to be brave (personally, in an ideal world, I think Robinson should be Trump’s VP pick). And once again Robinson is telling his fellow Republicans to stop being weak when it comes to the issue of abortion. As Robinson knows from painful experience in his younger and less pro-life days, an abortion is the greatest tragedy and evil that can befall both a baby and his parents.
Below is Robinson’s advice for conservatives running with a pro-life platform:
[LifeNews:] “The number one thing I would tell them to do is to stop listening to the bad reports of CNN, CBS, and ABC and all those news agencies that are using this issue to try to browbeat Christian, Bible-believing conservatives. That’s number one. The second thing that I would say is, quite frankly, stop being a coward and stand up for what you say you believe in. It’s time for the people of this nation to realize who we are.” Look, he said, “America’s survival is at stake” in this election. “We need to make our stands strong — and it starts with us standing up for what’s right.” Without apology.
Amen. If only the GOP had more leaders like Robinson and fewer who are not only willing but eager to compromise on baby murder and everything else. Indeed, more than two-thirds of Americans agree with restricting abortion, and even young Americans are increasingly pro-life—we can make this a winning issue.
I’ve emphasized repeatedly that science and Judeo-Christian morality both support the argument that every baby is a unique and precious human being with an eternal soul from the moment of conception, making abortion at any stage outright murder. Not to mention all methods of abortion (including pills) are painful and brutal, while abortion traumatizes the mothers too (and is never necessary to save a mother’s life). As Robinson highlighted, Republicans seriously need to adjust their messaging on life, instead of always accepting Democrat premises as the foundation. It’s quite literally a life or death struggle.
[LifeNews:] “I’m tired of talking about abortion,” the candidate for [NC] governor told reporters. The “a-word,” as he calls it, is what sent the party in a tailspin to begin with. “I’ve changed what I’m saying,” he told Family Research Council President Tony Perkins. “Democrats, the leftists, they want everyone to say the word ‘abortion.’ They want our children to say it in schools. They want us to say it in our churches. They want politicians to say it on the floor of the House and on the floor of the Senate. They want me to say it. As the lieutenant governor, I’m bound and determined to stand up for what I believe in. And what I believe in [is] life — and it’s time for us to start using that word. This is an issue of life, about protecting life, and then about doing what we can to elect officials to make sure that once those lives come into the world, that they have life and have it more abundantly.”
His intentional shift raised the antenna of local media, who’ve started reporting that Robinson is trying to duck the issue now. Baloney, he replies. “They think that I’ve changed my position,” he said. “I have not changed my position.” Instead, he’s doing what he believes every pro-lifer should do: he’s changed the terms. “The subject is not abortion,” the lieutenant governor insisted, “the subject is life.” And that’s where conservatives need to debate…
Bringing the conversation back to life also extends an arm to women, Robinson wanted people to know. “… [W]hen I speak, I want to be that person who’s there, who’s understanding. I want to be the person who’s … not up on a platform telling the young woman why she can’t have an abortion. I want to be that person who’s coming down, putting my arm around that young woman who may find [herself] in crisis, and telling them why she doesn’t have to have an abortion… [and that] our folks as elected officials [are] going to fight hard to make sure that you can bring that child into the world — and not only bring that child into the world, but have a great life for that child, yourself, and your family.”
It’s exactly the kind of message he and his wife needed to hear when they were struggling with an unexpected pregnancy before they were married. “My wife and I chose the route of abortion years ago,” he admitted, “and I cannot tell you the immense pain, the solid pain that we went through for so many years over this issue. It was just this unspoken thing that hurt both of us very deeply. And we have always regretted it, almost to the point where we just couldn’t even speak to one another about it because it was so painful.” But the difficulty of reliving that choice hasn’t stopped Robinson from sharing what they’ve been through. “We want to tell those stories to young people.” In fact, “It’s because of this experience and our spiritual journey that we are so adamantly pro-life,” he’s said.
Since that conscious decision to open up about it, the Robinsons have been amazed to see “how God used that to reach so many people who felt the exact same way, to encourage them to keep going and to know the mistakes that they made are shared by so many of us.”
Why do we always accept the Democrats’ terms? They understand perfectly well that he who controls the language can control minds. That’s why it’s so terribly important that conservatives realize we must take charge of the language or we’ll never win against the Marxist left.
As Robinson himself once said, “trouble is good” when the trouble comes from standing for freedom and against tyranny. “We’ve spent too much, too much sacrifice and service in our past for us to be the generation that says, well, you know, I don’t want them to say something bad about me. I don’t want them to call me a homophobe and a bigot, so I’m gonna just keep my mouth closed ’cause I don’t want no trouble,” Robinson declared in 2021. “Imagine where you would be if somebody else didn’t want no trouble. Imagine where this nation would’ve been if the men at Bunker Hill didn’t want no trouble.” As Robinson noted then, the Democrats have always been anti-Constitution and anti-American. Are we going to let them destroy our nation at last with their anti-life insanity?
Tell your GOP candidates this election season to stand up for babies and their right to life that our great Constitution recognizes as given by God to every single American.