<div dir="ltr"><span class="m_7553075284493712743gmail-article-date"></span>
<h1 class="m_7553075284493712743gmail-article-title">
President Trump takes office: Here are six key promises he made on abortion, marriage, and liberty
</h1>
<p class="m_7553075284493712743gmail-article-tags m_7553075284493712743gmail-hide-print"> <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/watch-six-promises-on-life-family-and-religious-liberty-trump-made-that-rev" target="_blank">https://www.lifesitenews.com/<wbr>news/watch-six-promises-on-<wbr>life-family-and-religious-<wbr>liberty-trump-made-that-rev</a><br>
</p>
<div class="m_7553075284493712743gmail-article-text-wrapper">,,,,,<br><p>Here is a list of the top life-and-family promises Trump made while on the campaign trail. </p>
<h4><b>1. Trump promises to <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">appoint pro-life judges</span></b></h4>.........<br>Trump <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>confirmed in</b></span> an Oct. 27, 2016<b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> <a href="http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/raymond-arroyos-interview-with-donald-trump" target="_blank">interview with EWTN</a> that he was going to appoint judges who are pro-life:</span><br><br>2. Trump promises <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">to defund</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">Planned Parenthood</span></b>
<p>After a 2015 video investigation uncovered evidence of Planned
Parenthood's involvement in the illegal sale of aborted baby body parts,
Trump promised on various occasions that if elected, he would defund
the abortion giant.</p>“<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Planned Parenthood<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>should absolutely be defunded.</b></span> I mean if you look at <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>what's going on with that, it's terrible,</b></span>” he said.
<h4><b>3. Trump <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">promises Christians can 'trust' him to defend 'traditional marriage’</span></b></h4>
<p>Christians were dismayed <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>in 2015 when the Supreme Court ruled in its 2015 <i>Obergefell</i> decision that two people of the same sex could ‘marry’ one another.</b></span> While<b> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">Trump</span> has</b> <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/trump-i-will-appoint-pro-life-justices-but-gay-marriage-is-settled-law" target="_blank">wavered in his position on the ruling</a>,
at one point calling it “settled law,” he<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> h<b>as also promised Christians
that they can “trust him” to defend traditional marriage. </b></span></p>.....<br><h4><b>4. Trump <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">promises religious liberty</span></b></h4>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>People of faith </b></span>across America<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b> have been </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>outraged by the numerous
instances of</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Christian bakers, wedding photographers, florists,
professors, counselors, health-care workers, media personalities,
professional sports players, bed-and-breakfast owners, mayors, printers,
politicians, foster parents, fire chiefs, magistrates and police</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>fined
and/or losing their jobs for refusing to compromise their beliefs when
challenged by adherents to homosexual ideology. </b></span></p>
<p>During his <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/full-text-trump-values-voter-summit-remarks-227977" target="_blank">Sept. 9, 2016 speech</a> at the Value Voters Summit, <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Trump promised to “protect and defend” religious liberty. </b></span></p>
<p>“<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>So let me say this right up front: [In] a Trump administration, our
Christian heritage will be cherished, protected, defended, like you’ve
never seen before. Believe me. I believe it. </b></span>And you believe it. And you
know it. You know it. And that includes religious liberty – remember,
remember,” he said. </p>
<h4><b>5. Trump <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">promises to repeal<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"> </span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">Johnson amendment</span></b></h4>
<p>Donald Trump promised that if elected president, he would repeal <span style="background-color:rgb(217,210,233)"><b>the
1954 Johnson amendment. That law bans</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>charities and churches that have
tax-exempt status </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>from </b></span><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">engaging in “political campaign activity</span></b>.”
Pro-life and pro-family leaders say the law <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>stops them from</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>
communicating their message and fully serving as leaders in the pulpit. </b></span></p>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Stated Trump </b></span>during his <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/full-text-trump-values-voter-summit-remarks-227977" target="_blank">Sept. 9, 2016 speech</a>
at the Value Voters Summit: <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>“The first thing we have to do is give our
churches their voice back. It’</b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>s been taken away. The Johnson amendment
has blocked </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>our pastors and ministers and others <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">from</span> speaking their
minds from their own pulpits. If they want to talk about Christianity,
if they want to preach, if they want to talk about politics,</b></span> they’re
unable to do so. If they want to do it, they take a tremendous risk that
they lose their tax-exempt status.”</p>
<p>“<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>All religious leaders should be able to freely express their
thoughts and feelings on religious matters. And I will repeal </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>the
Johnson amendment<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> </span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>if I am elected your president, I promise</b></span>. So
important,” he added. </p>
<h4><b>6. Trump <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)">promises to repeal</span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">Obamacare</span></b></h4>
<p>Life and family leaders have vigorously protested Obama’s health
reform law for forcing employers, including Catholic colleges and
hospitals, to pay for contraception, including abortifacient “emergency”
contraception, and sterilizations. <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Even</b></span> C<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>atholic communities of nuns,
such as the Little Sisters of the Poor, </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>were forced, contrary to </b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>their
religious beliefs,</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>to provide contraception and abortifacients to their
staff.</b></span></p>
<p>T<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>rump calle</b></span>d <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Obamacare “disastrous”</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>and promised to repea</b></span>l <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>it. </b></span></p>
<p>“We’re also going to repeal and replace disastrous <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>Obamacare which
gives the government control over</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the lives of everyday citizens</b></span>…<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>It is a
disaster. It’s a disaste</b></span>r, and everybody knows it. And it’s going to
die of its own weight anyway, but we’re going to get rid of it and we’re
going to replace it with some great, great alternatives – much better
health care at a much lower price,” he said. </p>
<h4><b>‘We’re going to have real progress’</b></h4>
<p><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Priests for Life National Director Father Frank Pavone stated </b></span>in a
recent interview with LifeSiteNews <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>that the pro-life cause will "make
significant progress" under a Donald Trump presidency. </b></span></p>
<p>Pavone said that members of the pro-life movement should look at the
Trump administration with a "we," not an "us-them," mentality.</p>
<p>"It’s not just about promises that [he and his team] made. It’s about
a common commitment that we have along with them," he explained. "<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>We
each have responsibilities: the elected and those they serve, to carry
out our common commitment to defend life, freedom, family, and America.
So we need to be working alongside" each other.”</b></span></p>
<p>Pavone <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>urged people fighting to defend life and family to continue to pray and act.</b></span> </p>
<p>"The battle does continue," he said. "We have to make sure that
everyone who was mobilized to pray during the election continues with
those prayers....and everyone who was mobilized to act continues to
act."</p>
<p>“We’re going to have real progress," Pavone predicted. "This was a real victory and it’s going to lead to real results."</p>
</div></div>