A lot of attention has been focused – rightly – on the many Executive Orders and appointments President Trump announced immediately after he was sworn in. And it is going to take a little while for everyone to digest the details of the flurry of announcements
and paperwork.
But our good friend Kristan Hawkins, President of Students for Life and host of the Kristan Hawkins Show clued us to some important details in one of the most important, yet underreported, Trump Day One Executive Orders.
It’s the one titled “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government.”
Most observers recognize this EO as the fulfillment of President Trump’s campaign promise to end the federal government’s Biden mandated embrace of transgender ideology, get men out of women’s sports and to protect them from encroachments into their private spaces, such as restrooms and locker rooms.
But it turns out there’s a lot more to this EO than what the title indicates.
In Sec. 2. Policy and Definitions, parts (d) and (e) these definitions are ordered:
(d) “Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.
(e) “Male” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.
The crucial words in both of these definitions are “at conception,” meaning not only does the federal government now define “male” and “female” according to their reproductive functions, but it also recognizes that those functions, and the male and female “person,” begin at conception.
This is a huge victory for the pro-life movement.
From now on, at least during the Trump administration, there is no debate about when life begins, a “person” begins at conception. And even if in utero as “persons” babies are entitled to 14th Amendment protections, "nor shall any State ... deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Where does this lead?
At the moment no one really knows whether this signals a Trump administration prepared to act to use the new definition as a tool to overturn the Biden-mandated abortion policies, such as abortions at military and veterans medical facilities. Nor does anyone know whether this signals Trump administration views on ending the tsunami of federal money flowing to the abortion industry. However, at the very least it gives pro-life organizations a new tool with which to fight the murder of countless unborn announced in the week before the annual March for Life, taking place this year in Washington, DC on January 24, 2025.
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