PHX Reporter

Joe Scoggin, a Tempe resident and member of the Our Lady of Mt. Carmel's parish, said abortion has a central role in decisions in the upcoming election, highlighting the impact of the Dobbs decision and concerns about the Church's stance.

"Abortion is the defining issue for me in every vote, every choice of candidate," Scoggin said. "With the Dobbs decision overturning Roe, the battle is now at the state level, and we are seeing this first-hand with Arizona facing abortion up until birth being on our ballot. The abortion lobby has unlimited resources to market the message of 'women's health care and choice.' Child sacrifice is seen throughout the Old Testament and is from the evil one. Our Church has previously held the high moral ground on this issue, but no doubt the Church leadership has wavered and compromised. Are we departing from God's Word, His Truth?"

“Donald Trump is the most pro-life politician in my life,” Tom McClusky, conservative speaker and Principal at Greenlight Strategies, said at the National Conservatism’s Beyond Dobbs panel. “When he comes back into office, he can change the federal laws that use taxpayer dollars to fund abortion, and he can change family policy to promote the bearing and raising of children.”

An Arizona court ruling in April of this year brought back a state law from 1864 which banned all abortions except for when the life of the mother was endangered. Arizona House legislators passed House Bill 2677 on May 2 to repeal the ban, with Governor Katie Hobbs signing the bill into law. The bill goes into effect on September 14, 2024, with a ban on enforcing the 1864 law in effect until September 27, 2024.

“The Democrats are the radicals on this because they're willing to have abortions in the seventh, eighth, ninth month,” former President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post. “We’re talking about the execution of a baby. And you can say what you want, but that's extreme and that's radical.”