Trump and the pro-life movement’s ‘problem’

The pro-life discontent with President Donald Trump that has been simmering throughout his second term may have finally reached a boiling point.

Dismayed by an increase in the number of abortions nearly four years after Roe v. Wade was overturned, leaders in the anti-abortion movement are blaming Trump for accepting the online sale of abortion bills and accepting a state-by-state approach to regulating the procedure.

“Trump is the problem,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, told the Wall Street Journal. “The president is the problem.”

It’s an arresting quote that captures growing frustration with the second Trump administration on issues ranging from the appointment of a longtime supporter of legal abortion, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to serve as secretary of health and human services, to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary’s failure to push safety concerns with mifepristone.

But the rift dates back to before “the most pro-life