In October 2016, Donald Trump stood on a debate stage and accused Hillary Clinton of supporting a practice he described in graphic terms: allowing a baby to be “ripped out of the womb” in the ninth month. Clinton dismissed the remark as “scare rhetoric.” This week, nearly ten years later, a Democratic governor signed a bill that — according to a new conservative analysis — makes Trump’s words look prescient.
Writing in American Thinker, Matt Kane, a former assistant press secretary in Trump’s second administration, argues that Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey’s signing of a bill allowing abortions at any point in pregnancy “validates” Trump’s 2016 warning. The Bay State becomes the tenth state without a gestational-age limit, meaning one in five states now permits abortion up until the moment of birth.
From Covert to Celebrated
Kane contends that in 2016, Democrats understood that openly supporting late-term abortion would be politically toxic, so they crafted careful language around “women’s rights” and “reproductive freedom.” But now, he writes, the party no longer hides its intentions. The Massachusetts signing featured officials applauding the expansion of “reproductive freedom” — a phrase Kane calls “particularly perverse” because it eliminates the very fruits of reproduction.
The article cites earlier examples of what it calls the “pro-abortion” agenda: New York’s 2019 law removing a requirement for a second physician to provide life-saving care to infants who survive abortion; Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer vetoing $20 million in adoption funding while her spokesman called pro-life centers “fake health centers”; and Minnesota under Tim Walz reportedly seeing infants born alive and left to die, followed by Walz eliminating reporting requirements for such cases.
‘Pro-Choice’ vs. ‘Pro-Abortion’
The core of Kane’s argument is that the shift from “pro-choice” to “pro-abortion” is not merely semantic. “If these officials were truly pro-choice, they would not act with such hostility toward pro-life measures,” he writes. He credits Trump with unmasking the movement’s true nature, forcing Democrats to “expose themselves for what they truly are.”
Kane acknowledges that no left-wing journalist will press Biden, Harris, or Clinton on their past rebukes of Trump’s rhetoric, because doing so would require admitting “they lied about their true agenda.”
Roe’s Aftermath and a Call to Action
While Trump’s 2016 victory led to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Kane argues that victory has not translated into reduced abortion rates — in fact, abortions have increased nationwide. He calls this “an indictment of the pro-life community” that longed for Roe’s end but has “largely neglected to act.”
He also points to shifting public opinion: recent studies, he says, show more Americans now prefer abortion to be illegal than legal, a reversal from the immediate post-Dobbs period. This, he argues, is an opportunity for pro-life politicians to push for stronger protections, warning that those who “claim a strong faith foundation” should fear biblical warnings about “shedding innocent blood” and “lukewarmness” more than losing an election.
The piece concludes with a stark directive: “The fight for life is not a game.”
American Thinker describes itself as a conservative publication, and this piece is an opinion column rather than a news report. The claims about events in Massachusetts, New York, Michigan, and Minnesota are presented as fact by the author but are not independently verified in this article.
Source: www.americanthinker.com — https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/08/trump-was-right-about-the-democrats-abortion-agenda/