Since winning his election and taking office for his second term, President Donald J. Trump wasted no time sweeping up the messes left by the dark ages of the Biden presidency, including mass deporting the multitude of law-breaking people who invaded our sovereign borders. Rather than speaking up for the rights of American citizens violently ripped from their mothers’ wombs every day, the abortion-hungry Left has leapt to defend the cause of illegal aliens. In doing so, they deem illegal aliens in the womb worthy of greater legal protections than American children in the womb.

Main Idea:

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) believes that an illegal alien should be protected under U.S. law, but that American children in the womb should not be.

What You Missed:

In January 2025, the ACLU sued President Trump over an executive order that the Daily Caller reports would “withhold birthright citizenship against individuals born on American soil to parents living unlawfully in the country or on certain temporary visas.”

After he was sworn into office on Jan. 20, Trump signed an executive order to end birthright citizenship. Outraged by this news, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) furiously filed a lawsuit against President Trump’s executive order the following day.

“Denying citizenship to U.S. born children is not only unconstitutional — it’s also a reckless and ruthless repudiation of American values,” Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU, said in a prepared statement. “Birthright citizenship is part of what makes the United States the strong and dynamic nation that it is.”

ACLU is seemingly horrified that newborns would be put in “harm’s way” with this executive action.

Where’s ACLU’s outrage over the estimated 2,800 American babies butchered every day from abortion? If they’re concerned about protecting illegal, law-breaking aliens and their preborn children, then they should be even more concerned about the alarming amount of America’s citizens being barbarically torn apart bone from flesh in the womb.

Ironically, Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, boldly stated, “We will not let this attack on newborns and future generations of Americans go unchallenged.”

If only Romero and the ACLU spoke this boldly FOR the little Americans in the womb. The ACLU advocates for non-citizen children in the womb as “anchors” for the United States social fabric, while at the same time, arguing that American children in the womb have no rights at all.

The baby-killing Planned Parenthood and ACLU are thick as thieves. They are so close that former President of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, was awarded  Roger Baldwin Medal of Liberty, their highest honor, acknowledging a lifetime investment to further “civil liberties.”

There is nothing civil or liberating about celebrating an industrialized Goliath that murders tiny humans for blood money.

Demanding that killing American babies in the womb is “a right” and that violent dismemberment of tiny human arms, legs and skulls is “healthcare” on  X, formerly known as Twitter, ACLU shows that they do not care about preborn children. They care more about playing politics with the most vulnerable among us.

Keep In Mind:

Despite what abortion supporters might say, we have a pro-life Constitution. These Constitutional protections for Americans do not begin when a child takes their first breath. Traditionally, our nation has a long history that has recognized children in the womb as people to be protected from intentional killing. The Declaration of Independence states that all Americans are “endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Why The 14^th Amendment Matters:

The 14^th Amendment states that no state can deny equal protection to any person:

“No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws” – Section 1, 14^th Amendment

In 1868, the word person had “a settled public meaning that included every human being- children in the womb among them,” wrote Constitutional Scholar and Harvard Law graduate Josh Craddock. “As Dobbs recites, abortion was unlawful at common law during all stages of pregnancy, and the unborn child was considered a legal person whenever it would be to his benefit. State high courts leading up to 1868 declared that the unborn child throughout pregnancy ‘is a person’ and hence, under ‘civil and common law,’ ‘to all intents and purposes a child, as much as if born.’

“One early decision used language that bears a striking resemblance to the 14th Amendment to make the point: ‘A child in the womb of the mother is under the protection of the law, and possesses all the privileges of a living being.’ By the end of 1868, three-quarters of the states had supplemented the common law with statutory bans against abortion at all stages, many of which classified abortion as an ‘offense against the person’ and described the unborn victim of abortion as an ‘infant’ or ‘child.’” (emphasis added)

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Fast forward to the Woodstock-Era when abortion was coming into play, lawyers cited the 14^th Amendment and recognized that a child in the womb was a person entitled to equal protection of the laws.

Time Magazine reported that, “In the early 1970s, when lawyers representing the state of Texas argued Roe v. Wade before the U.S. Supreme Court, they argued that a fetus is a person. Because a fetus is a person, they told the Justices, a fetus is entitled to all the protections guaranteed under the Fourteenth Amendment including a right to ‘life.’”

Why This is Timely:

Recognizing 14^th Amendment protections entitled to preborn Americans means that no state can deny equal protection or kill a person in the womb. There is no constitutional right to kill. The value and dignity of a little person in the womb doesn’t change based on its location or state line. That’s why at Students for Life Action (SFLAction), we fight nationwide recognition of the preborn as constitutional persons entitled to equal protection on the state and federal level.

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The 14^th Amendment addresses American citizenship stating that all “persons” are entitled to equal protections under the law and that no state can deny these protections to any person.

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

President Trump’s recent executive order to end birthright citizenship to illegal aliens has stirred up national debate about who is protected as “persons” under the 14th Amendment. George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley was asked by Fox News Sunday if he believes that Trump’s order would win in the courts. He shared a little-known fact that while the 14^th Amendment was being drafted “some of the members of Congress said that they believed it did not extend birthright citizenship and that has fueled a lot of this debate.”

What’s Next:

Through this recent lawsuit against Trump, the ACLU allegedly demands illegal aliens be given more protection in the womb than preborn Americans in the womb. From the beginning, America has welcomed foreigners from far and wide and created a legal pathway to apply for citizenship. But illegal aliens have allegedly broken laws and have not gone through the legal pathway to citizenship and should not be given citizen privileges. As a sovereign nation, our founding fathers believed that our moral and legal obligation is to protect and secure American citizens first.

Founding father and signer of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson agreed saying, “My affections were first for my own country, and then, generally for all mankind.”

Not only have Constitutional signers advocated for this order of priorities, but newly elected Vice President JD Vance has recently re-introduced the idea of rightly ordered citizen responsibility, known as “ordo amoris”

As reported by USA Today: “J.D. Vance articulated the “Christian concept that you love your family, and then you love your neighbor, and then you love your community, and then you love your fellow citizens in your own country, and then, after that, you can focus and prioritize the rest of the world.”

This practical principle used in public policy and immigration policy comes from Scripture.

“In Matthew 22, Jesus was asked, “Which commandment in the law is the greatest?” He answered in terms of precisely the concentric hierarchy that Vance articulated: “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the greatest and the first commandment. And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets” (Mt 22:37-40). This is the foundation for the ordo amoris or “order of love..”

Responsibility to God, family, neighbor, community, fellow citizens, then the rest of the world should be the order of one’s priorities. But the ACLU has backward priorities for who to take care of first.  They want the 14^th Amendment protections to extend to non-citizens, but do not want that extended to preborn American citizens. This disordering of priorities is a recipe for national disaster as millions of American babies are killed to the morbid applause of the ACLU.

At SFLAction, we believe in the flourishing of our country and have written a road map that gives a bright future to all preborn Americans. We must be relentless in our protection of preborn Americans because our lasting legacy as a nation depends on them, on our children.

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