Lightning rod anti-abortion priest leads Trump effort to win Catholics in 2020
by Nicholas Rowan
| April 24, 2020 12:00 AM
“Here before me lies a baby killed by abortion in the second trimester of pregnancy,†Father Frank Pavone said as he gestured to the blackened body of a terminated fetus, laid out between two lit candles on what appeared to be an altar.
“Today, we are going to pray with this baby, and we are going to let this baby’s body bear witness to our nation as we begin the process to elect our next president,†he continued, during a 45-minute livestreamed sermon recorded in a room Pavone often uses as a chapel.
It was only two days until the 2016 election, and Pavone, working from his Priests for Life organization’s Staten Island headquarters, was doing everything he could to put abortion in the forefront of voters’ minds. In that last week, he delivered daily sermons, made phone calls, and posted on social media with a simple message: Hillary Clinton supports abortion. Donald Trump does not. With this final video, he left voters of conscience with one choice.
“Don’t pretend that one isn’t better than the other: You have the opportunity here to make a real difference for children just like this,†he said as he wiggled the sheet supporting the tiny corpse.
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