Originally published at National Catholic Register
In the run-up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election, influential pro-life activist and Live Action President Lila Rose announced her decision to support former president Donald Trump, despite her earlier hesitation about his candidacy.
“I will be voting for Donald Trump,” Rose, who is Catholic, said in a Nov. 2 post on X, just three days before the Nov. 5 election.
The last-minute decision to support Trump comes just two months after Rose told Politico that she “would not vote for [Vice President Kamala] Harris or Trump” if the election were held that day.
However, since that comment, Rose revealed that she “had the opportunity to meet privately with President Trump [and] he was generous with his time, and we spoke for two hours on my disagreements with him on abortion.”
“Some progress was made: When enough pro-life allies expressed outrage and threatened to withhold their vote, Trump reversed his position on Amendment 4, which would legalize abortion through all nine months in his home state of Florida, and expressed his opposition to it,” Rose wrote.
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Rose said in her statement that “Kamala Harris’ policies and record on abortion are objectively worse than
