Originally published at National Catholic Register
EDITORIAL: Florida’s competent and courageous governor served as a decisive force in defense of the sanctity of life.
The defeat of Amendment 4 in Florida on Nov. 5 proves that the pro-abortion lobby isn’t invincible, even when it outspends the opposition 10 to 1 — provided that political leaders articulate a sincere, coherent case for life, as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis did.
The stakes there for the pro-life movement were enormous, after seven straight state abortion ballot losses in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade. DeSantis himself went so far as to say the amendment’s passage would have meant “the end of the pro-life movement.”
That wasn’t much of an overstatement, given Florida’s thankfully steep 60% threshold for passage of the amendment and the reality that DeSantis’ Republican Party is moving in another direction nationally on the pro-life issue. Disappointingly, when asked how as a Florida resident he had voted on the amendment, Donald Trump’s response was “Just stop talking about that,” The Washington Post reported.
DeSantis could have just gone through the motions, given the president-elect’s mixed signals on the ballot measure. Instead, he went above and beyond to
