I’ll confess: Arguing about Michigan and abortion the morning before Election Day made for one miserable Monday morning.
The good news is, most 2026 elections will be over soon.
Let’s not think about the next presidential-election primary season beginning Thursday for a moment.
For anyone who is not up on this: Abdul El-Sayed accused Mike Rogers of supporting a national abortion ban. Rogers hit back with an ad clearly meant for pro-choice voters, saying he would do nothing in the Senate to undo what Michigan voters already decided for Michigan on abortion.
Rogers has a solid pro-life voting record. He’s super-recently on the record saying he’s pro-life.
I have been clear about this issue time and time again and I will not allow Abdul to lie about my position.
This decision is one of the hardest decisions a woman will make in her entire life and it should be handled with her family and her doctor. Period.
The Michigan voters… https://t.co/mUi52lwTXF pic.twitter.com/NWUOdRdF7v
— Mike Rogers (@MikeRogersForMI) October 31, 2026
But what on earth does that even mean anymore? Specifically: What does it mean for a politician who is willing to cut an ad where he says:
I’m Mike Rogers. I know that a decision about a pregnancy is one of the most difficult and personal decisions a woman will make. Michigan voters have already decided the issue and I respect that decision. In the Senate, I won’t do anything to change it.
I understand everyone who is saying today this is no time for pro-life purity tests, the morning before a close race. But, at the same time, pro-lifers have every right and reason to be disappointed at best. Life as a cheap date is not healthy for anyone. Mike Rogers might as well have made an ad declaring:
I’m Mike Rogers, and I’m here to confirm your cynicism about everything political.
For refusing to “take a pro-life stand on abortion,” CatholicVote has now suspended their Rogers endorsement.
Abdul El-Sayed is a radical. He uses his medical degree to flout basic biology; he uses his Girl Dad status as a credential for making the most absurd case for boys on their sports teams and in their bathrooms, and he insults the intelligence of any believer in religious freedom and/or the Catholic Church, comparing himself to JFK and the Vatican to the Muslim Brotherhood.
If I were a Michigan voter, I’d be angry and sad. If I hadn’t voted yet, I’d be tempted to just vote for John or Amy Miller of Hillsdale — or fill in your own favorite Michigander. But I know there are stark differences between the two major candidates, as disappointing as Republicans are. After all, I cannot be in denial that Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito cannot actually serve on the Supreme Court until the End Times (unless we are already living in them — a definite possibility).
On Wednesday or Thursday, when people will not be at each other for breaking the Eleventh Commandment, it would be good to ask what the Republican Party actually stands for when it comes to the human-rights issue of our lifetimes. Ending abortion in America is no longer part of their platform. If Donald Trump’s legacy includes ending Roe, it also includes this. Do you have a vision other than wanting the states to let you off the hook?
There is no getting off the hook, though. Not if we are living and breathing at a time when abortion is easier to access than ever. Those “back alleys” the Left has been using against pro-lifers for decades? They are mailboxes now. Legal and illegal, they are here to stay. That doesn’t get anyone off the hook. It makes ending abortion in America more challenging than ever. And if you are in the “safe and legal” camp, you, too, have some tremendous work to do, too.
Will Mike Rogers prove to have cut an ad that suppresses the pro-life vote tomorrow? Probably not significantly, all things considered. But it sure is no profile in statesmanship. And whatever happens, Republicans have a lot to answer for.