Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos compared anti-abortion activists to abolitionists.
DeVos spoke at the Museum of the Bible in D.C. on Thursday during Colorado Christian University’s annual president’s dinner, according to the Colorado Times Recorder. DeVos touched on abortion ahead of the March for Life, an annual protest march against abortion, that will take place in D.C. on Friday.
DeVos compared the fight to ban abortion to the fight to ban slavery in the United States in the 19th century.
“[President Abraham Lincoln] too contended with the pro-choice arguments of his day. They suggested that a state’s choice to be slave or to be free had no moral question in it,” DeVos said. “Well, President Lincoln reminded those pro-choicers that is a vast portion of the American people that do not look upon that matter as being this very little thing. They look upon it as a vast moral evil.”
“There are many in the pro-life movement who heroically work to make abortion unconstitutional,” DeVos said. “Tonight, let’s talk about making it unthinkable.”
President Trump is expected to make an address at the March for Life, the first U.S. president to do so in person since the annual demonstration started in 1974. Vice President Mike Pence spoke at the event last year, and Trump recorded a message for the crowd.
