A Pro-Life Alternative for November 5th

 The Guam Election Commission has recently published sample ballots for the 2024 General Election and only one team on the presidential section of the ballot represents a political party with an explicit pro-life plank in its national platform.  I'm speaking about the team of Peter Sonski and Lauren Onak of the American Solidarity Party.


Check out their platform here:  https://www.solidarity-party.org/platform.  Here is their pro-life plank:


Yes, I know.  Voters on Guam don't really vote for a president because Guam has no votes in the Electoral College.  It's only a straw poll, and means nothing stateside.  Sure, we might see a blurb about the results of our straw poll in the national media, but that's about it.

While our vote for president means very little nationally, it could indeed have significance here.  

Hear me out.  A pro-life voter in one of the fifty states might, in good faith, vote for the "lesser of two evils", but even that moral calculus has been muddied since the Republican Party removed their pro-life plank and President Trump announced that he wants to subsidize In Vitro Fertilization (IFV) nationally.  You probably know that in each IVF procedure, some embryos are frozen but dozens are often destroyed.  

But what if a significant number of pro-life voters on Guam voted for the American Solidarity ticket of Sonski and Onak on November 5th?  Say 500 or more?  A number that often decides elections here.  That would send a signal, I think, to legislators and candidates here that the pro-life cause could be a winning issue for them and to be wary of crossing pro-life voters.  Just a thought.

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