SE Valley Times

Janet Manecke, a Mesa resident and member of the St. Timothy's parish, said abortion is a major contributor of "mental illness in our society" as it negatively impacts the women who have an abortion. 

"How can God bless a nation that murders its own children?" Manecke said. "I think this is one of the leading causes of mental illness in our society today! How can you move on and not be affected by that decision, regardless of how difficult it was to make? Your subconscious knows and will torment you forever!" 

"That’s why so many of the women fighting to kill their babies are so angry," she said. "Misery loves company, so if they can convince others to make the same decision, they feel better about their own choice."

“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.”