After warning of what a Harris-Walz administration would mean for pregnancy help with the ticket’s radical abortion agenda and Harris’s history of targeting pro-life advocates, Heartbeat International is welcoming former President Donald J. Trump’s election as the 47th president of the United States and responding to state abortion amendments, while underscoring that pregnancy help will go on no matter what.
“We have some very good news, and we have some very bad news,” Heartbeat International President Jor-El Godsey said in regard to the 2024 general election. “The good news is that the most pro-abortion ticket ever in the American history was defeated.”
“That's the good news,” Godsey said. “The fact that we won't be fighting that fight at that level for the next few years. So at least we have that to say, that's good news.”
Heartbeat International is the largest network of pregnancy help organizations in the U.S. and globally.
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Trump’s victory was historic by the numbers and the electorate’s returning to the White House a president who in his first term had made noteworthy advances on the life issue. Still, his more recent equivocating on abortion policy had given many in the pro-life movement pause and prompted pro-life leaders to admonish Trump to stand for life.
“The election of Donald Trump gives us hope for the future of the pro-life movement,” Godsey said.
“In its first term, the Trump administration made notable strides toward protecting life and demonstrated a commitment to mothers and their unborn children,” he said. “Election results prove the American people endorse those policies, so we urge the 47th president to remain committed to initiatives that expand support for mothers, families and life-affirming choices.”
While the abortion radicalism of a Harris administration was thwarted at the ballot box, states’ abortion amendment results prompted both celebration and mourning.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court Dobbs ruling overturning Roe v. Wade the abortion lobby has worked to circumvent Dobbs through state ballot initiatives shadily packaged to get unfettered abortion codified into state constitutions.
Voters in Florida, Nebraska, and South Dakota rejected enshrining abortion into their state constitutions.
The three states’ outcome is a “powerful glimmer of hope that Big Abortion’s campaign to manipulate American voters has failed,” Godsey said.
“Abortion is not the only option available to women, and we celebrate voters’ choice to uphold life-affirming values that protect women and the unborn,” he said.
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Conversely, voters in Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, and New York voted to enshrine abortion into their state constitutions.
“We are deeply concerned that voters in these states were misled by Big Abortion’s deceptive campaign, which pushed harmful policies that serve the abortion industry—not women or families,” said Godsey. “The slogan ‘reproductive freedom’ masks a reality of unrestrained abortion, ignoring true choices and diminishing the value of life itself.”
Additionally, Godsey sounded the ongoing alarm on the scourge of chemical abortion, now amounting to well over half of all U.S. abortions and leaving women at risk with minimal regulation.
“The still very bad news is that chemical abortion is being shipped into every state in the nation,” Godsey told Pregnancy Help News. “Whether they have good laws that protect women, or they don't, chemical abortion is still a reality across the land.”
“Every day women are still waking up facing an unplanned pregnancy,” he said. “And several states have abandoned them to the abortion industry, and that's why pregnancy help is still necessary.”
Godsey emphasized that pregnancy help organizations are as crucial as ever and they will persist in serving and supporting women and families.
“Election Day is over, and now it's an opportunity every day to help women elect life, to choose life wherever they are,” he said.
“Pregnancy help is now the front lines in many states where it has been all along, but now it's more important than ever,” Godsey added.
This is a continued occasion to walk with women as they make a pregnancy decision, he said. This still possible in the United States despite varied political efforts to quash pregnancy help, said Godsey, and is reason to celebrate.
“So, we're grateful that we still have an opportunity to help her choose life regardless of what state she's in, regardless of the election results that have swirled around her,” he said. “We still have that opportunity to step in and help her say yes to life and elect the life that God has given her.”
Editor's note: Heartbeat International manages Pregnancy Help News.
