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    The Pro-life Movement Is Fuming at Donald Trump

    Should he care? Its supporters will vote for him anyway.
    by Elaine Godfrey Sep 22, 2023 5 minutes
    Source: Illustration by Jared Bartman / The Atlantic. Sources: Brooks Kraft / Getty; Andrew Lichtenstein / Getty.

    Updated at 9:00 a.m. ET on September 22, 2023

    A few weeks ago, the Texas anti-abortion activist Mark Lee Dickson told me that he viewed Donald Trump as the Constantine of the anti-abortion movement: a man who, like the Roman emperor, had been converted to a righteous cause and become its champion.

    “There are some who believe that Constantine was a sincere Christian and others who believe that he wasn’t,” Dickson said. Regardless of whether Trump is genuinely opposed to abortion rights, “he was good for Christianity and the pro-life movement.”

    But after hearing on Sunday’s , Dickson, who is one of the architects of Texas’s so-called heartbeat ban, feels differently. He’d been helping plan a big Trump rally in Lubbock. Now he’s worried. “What I want to do is get up onstage and brag about Trump. But at this point, his statements do not represent—it was ending abortion in all 50 states.”

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