When people ask me how the Trump presidency is working out, I say that it’s a mixed bag. There are definite positives, like border security and law enforcement. And definite negatives, like tariffs against our allies, and throwing the Canadian election for the leftist Liberal party. But many Trump supporters most important issue is the issue of life. How has Trump been doing on that issue?

Well, Life News is the source I trust for news about life issues, and they have a nice article about Trump’s first 100 days.

It says:

President Donald Trump has moved swiftly to advance a pro-life agenda in the first 100 days of his second term, enacting a series of executive actions and policy changes that have energized pro-life advocates.

Since his inauguration on January 20, Trump has signed more than 139 executive orders, with several directly targeting pro-life policies and reinforcing protections for the sanctity of human life.

These actions fulfill key campaign promises and align with the priorities of pro-life groups, who see the administration’s early moves as a historic step toward curbing abortion and promoting a culture of life.

Sounds good, but I thought if I could get a few specifics, then I would be able to bring them up in discussions. I’ve been doing a lot of running around town for various tasks, and getting into good conversations with people. Auto repair, auto inspection, mower blade sharpening, Indian food, dentist and doctor check-ups, etc. So, I always want to have the latest facts ready to go in case anyone asks me. Of course, where I live, most people agree with me, but oh well.

Here’s are two related ones that I can remember:

The president followed that up with an executive order pardoning 23 pro-life Americans who Joe Bien unjustly convicted for exercising their free speech rights to protest at abortion businesses.

[..]Furthermore, the administration announced plans to limit the enforcement of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, arguing that it has been used to target pro-life activists unfairly. This decision reflects the administration’s stance on protecting the rights of individuals engaging in peaceful protest outside abortion businesses. The end of lawfare against pro-life Americans is a significant free speech victory.

This one was important to me. I am always furious when I see the Democrat party using government power as a weapon against taxpayers who disagree with the Democrat party on policy. Sadly, we had a lot of abuse of power under the Biden-Harris regime, including unlawful detainment and pre-dawn-raiding of political opponents. Although these things do fit the definition of fascism, the corporate news media often had nothing to say about them. I’m glad that Trump had heard about them, and did something about them.

Here are another two related ones that I can remember:

Trump signed an executive order reinstating the “Mexico City Policy,” which prohibits taxpayer funding of groups like International Planned Parenthood that promote and perform abortions in other nations.

[…]President Trump issued an executive order enforcing the Hyde Amendment, which bars the use of federal funds for elective abortions domestically. This move underscores the administration’s commitment to preventing taxpayer dollars from funding abortion services within the United States.

So, it’s frustrating to me as a conservative Christian that my tax dollars go to support activists who disagree with me on all of my beliefs. You would think someone was weird if William Lane Craig was able to get taxpayer money to fun his debates on college campuses. But, that’s exactly what’s happening, when the Democrat party gets into power – except they hand out billions and billions of dollars to universities, companies and corporate news media. And that’s not even to mention their other constituencies: criminals, single mothers, student loan defaulters, illegal immigrants, etc.

Now, before I even started blogging, I remember visiting home in 2008, and following my Obama-supporting mother around the house with a pack of printed out articles, complaining to her about how Obama voted against protections for babies born alive during abortions. So, Trump did something about that:

President Trump also issued a statement endorsing a Congressional bill that would protect babies who survive abortions. And finally, President Trump signed the United States onto a document called the Geneva Declaration that confirms there is no right to kill babies in abortions.

Actually, the Democrat party supports not only killing babies born alive during abortions, but also sex-selection abortions (typically unborn girls) and race selection abortions (typically non-white unborn babies).

But there’s more. Trump also stopped federal interference with pro-life laws at the state level:

In other pro-life actions, Trump has dropped a lawsuit Joe Biden filed attempting to force Idaho to allow abortions.

I once had a debate with the President of the Evangelical Philosophical Society on Twitter. He was claiming that it was fine to vote for Biden-Harris, because Trump would be the same on abortion. I had to explain to him that Trump would not touch state-level restrictions on abortion. But not only did Trump not touch them, but he’s reversing Biden’s previous attacks on them!

I suppose that the President of the Evangelical Philosophical Society also opposed this action by Trump, since he didn’t support Trump:

He froze some Planned Parenthood funding, cutting of $27.5 million to the abortion giant and he defunded UNFPA, which promoted forced abortions in China.

Anyway, there’s more in the article, so just read it, and then maybe tell a friend.

Trump has disappointed me in some ways, especially screwing the Canadian conservatives out of their supermajority with his tariffs and “51st state” clowning. But, we have to give him points when he scored.

Whenever the topic of baby-ending comes up, I try to put forward a logical argument. One of the premises will always be “the unborn are living and have human DNA”. And for that, I turn to the science of embryology. Basically, I always want to support my case in discussions about social issues with scientific facts. So, in this post, we can add a new study to your quiver for discussing baby-ending.

Here’s the article about the new study, from The Federalist:

In the “largest known study of the abortion pill,” Ethics and Public Policy Center President Ryan Anderson and Director of Data Analysis Jamie Bryan Hall used purchased Medicaid, TRICARE, Medicare, Department of Veterans Affairs, and private medical insurance claim data to determine that 865,727 mifepristone abortion prescriptions for 692,873 women were handed out between 2017 and 2023.

Approximately 10.9 percent of those claims, or 94,605 chemical abortions, involved potentially life-threatening “serious adverse events” such as emergency room visits, hemorrhage, sepsis, infection, and/or follow-up surgeries for the women who had downed the abortion drug within the last 45 days.

That rate, which researchers adjusted to reflect “that some women suffer from adverse events in multiple categories,” is 22 times the FDA’s <0.5 percent estimation printed on the Mifeprex label. The researchers also suggest that the 45-day timeframe they used is “conservative, as some adverse events may present later (and studies relied on by the FDA used a timeframe as long as 72 days).”

Notice how large the study is, this is not like those LGBT parenting studies of like 100 self-selected cases. Also, I like that they use insurance claims, which are hard facts. Some groups who support the pill use much smaller studies to reach opposite conclusions. But their controlled clinical trials are much smaller than this new study.

What’s the point of bringing up this study? Well, people need to be able to calculate the risks of their actions using real numbers. It’s fashionable today to tell young women “follow your heart” and then blame everyone else when that doesn’t “work out” for them. But a much better approach is to let people decide based on facts. It might even cause more women to choose not to have reckless sex at all.

Some women are taking these extreme measures by using telehealth or mail ordering to get this drug. But given these findings, it seems like it would be better for them to see a real healthcare provider to get the facts. And certainly the FDA should be more accurate about the risks.

You might remember that there was a famous case of this in the news recently. Although the secular left tried to blame the death of Amber Nicole Thurman on pro-life laws, she actually died from complications after taking mifepristone and misoprostol to end her pregnancy. What she needed to fix those complications was a non-abortive D&C. The secular left claimed that was illegal in Georgia, but it actually is legal, because it’s not an abortion. Still, these drugs really does affect some women negatively, which is the point.

The Federalist article suggests these fixes to make the situation better:

Changes like reinstating multiple in-person office visits, physician-only prescription, ultrasounds to confirm the gestational stage and rule out ectopic pregnancy, and mandated reporting of complications, the study suggests, could spare suffering women severe and even fatal fallout from the pill.

If you know anyone who is considering this drug, it might be worth pointing them to this study. These days, I see a lot of women having reckless recreational sex with men who have no intention of commiting to them. In fact, many of these women don’t want commitment first. But there are risks to having sex like this. Sometimes, it can cause serious consequences. I think it would be much better if we coached women to choose better men, and to get married first. Then they wouldn’t have to deal with unwanted pregnancies alone – there would be a husband there to help.

Well, I like to follow the policies of other countries, like Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. It’s important for me to see what the secular left is doing in countries that are a little further along with their socialism. On Monday, Canada is going to go to the polls to vote on their federal government. Will they give the Trudeau Liberal party a fourth term in office?

Here’s the latest poll reported in the Ottawa Sun:

The Liberals were in the lead with all age cohorts except for 35 to 54 year olds, where the Conservatives led by a 44 to 38 margin.

Eight in 10 respondents said their choice was final or they’d already voted at the advance polls.

Forty per cent said that Carney would make the best prime minister of any party leader, giving him a nine-point edge over Poilievre.

Carney beat Poilievre across all age groups, eclipsing him by 20 points among respondents 55 and older.

The current average home price in Canada is about $700,000 CAD, which is about $520,000 USD. Young people can’t afford it, but old people largely don’t care. They just want to keep the good times rolling for themselves, and pass the bill onto other people’s children.
You might be wondering why this happened, and the answer is that Donald Trump had a lot to do with it. The tariffs and talk of “51st state” did a lot to take away the Conservative supermajority that was being predicted by polls prior to his comments.

Here’s what the Liberal party did over the last 10 years, courtesy of the Fraser Institute:

After first being elected in 2015, Trudeau promised to balance the budget by 2019—then ran nine consecutive deficits including an astonishing $61.9 billion deficit for the 2023/24 fiscal year, the largest deficit of any year outside of COVID.

From 2020 to 2023, the government racked up the four highest years of total federal debt per person (inflation-adjusted) in Canadian history. Compared to 2014/15 (the last full year under Prime Minister Harper), federal debt per person had increased by $14,127 (as of 2023/24).

Mark Carney, the new Liberal party leader, will be worse than Trudeau – his own budget shows why:

Today, Carney released the Liberal Party’s “fiscal and costing plan.” Carney’s plan projects the debt to increase consistently.
Here is the breakdown of Carney’s annual budget deficits:

• 2025-26: $62 billion
• 2026-27: $60 billion
• 2027-28: $55 billion
• 2028-29: $48 billion

Over the next four years, Carney plans to add an extra $225 billion to the debt. For comparison, the Trudeau government planned on increasing the debt by $131 billion over those years, according to the most recent Fall Economic Statement.

So how are things going up north?

Well, this article from the Toronto Sun, about the most populous province of Ontario, caught my eye. It mentions “OHIP”, the Ontario Health Insurance Plan, which is responsible for Ontario’s system of government-run health care.

It says:

Behold your tax dollars at work. OHIP has been ordered, for the third time, to pay for an out-of-country surgery for an Ontario trans, nonbinary patient who wants to keep the P while she gets the V.

[…]Called penile-preserving vaginoplasty, the procedure creates a fully functional vagina without surgically removing the penis.

According to the decision, K.S., who’s sex assigned at birth was male, is female dominant and “suffered physical, mental, and economic hardships to transition her gender expression to align with her gender identity.”

In May 2022, her doctor submitted the required request for prior funding approval to OHIP for a vaginoplasty — but without the usually accompanying removal of her penis. “(K.S.) identifies as transfeminine but not completely on the ‘feminine’ end of the spectrum and for this reason it’s important for her to have a vagina while maintaining her penis,” the doctor explained.

Since that wasn’t offered anywhere in Ontario, K.S. was asking for OHIP to fund the novel “bottom surgery” at the Crane Center for Transgender Surgery in Austin, Texas.

So, Ontario taxpayers will be footing the bill for an out-of-country transgender surgery, paid for in U.S. Dollars.

The author of the article notes:

“K.S. is pleased with the Court of Appeal’s decision, which is now the third unanimous ruling confirming that her gender affirming surgery is covered under Ontario’s Health Insurance Act and its regulations,” her lawyer John McIntyre wrote in an email to the Toronto Sun.

According to the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, an intervenor in the case, “the Court of Appeal for Ontario is a victory for equitable and non-discriminatory healthcare funding for trans, non-binary and gender diverse people in Ontario.”
OHIP was also ordered to pay K.S.’s legal costs of $23,500 — on top of the $20,000 in costs they had to pay for their appeal to the Divisional Court.

But really, that’s out of our pockets, of course, including the thousands of (American) dollars it will cost for this out-of-country niche and experimental surgery.

The Monday election was a chance to stop the runaway deficits and the DOUBLING of the national debt, under Trudeau. But as you see, as long as there is money to steal, and virtue to signal, Canada is going to continue down the road to serfdom. We should learn from their mistakes.