Letter: Hoping some of Trump’s executive orders are retained

To the editor:

I have found three executive orders from President Trump that I feel the new administration should retain.

The first order is a mandate that all babies born alive, no matter the circumstances, must be attended to by the doctor. This is in relation to babies who are born alive after a botched abortion. While critics contend that the order is unnecessary, the reality is that there were 143 deaths between 2003 and 2014 in which a child was born alive after a failed abortion and was not cared for. Gianna Jensen was born after a botched abortion and no one can contend that she doesn’t deserve to be alive.

Another executive order just issued, on Jan. 18, 2021, was for a National Garden of American Heroes that would memorialize people who embody “the American spirit of daring and defiance, excellence and adventure, courage and confidence, loyalty and love,” Trump said, “Astounding the world by the sheer power of their examples, each one of them has contributed indispensably to America’s noble history, the best chapters of which are still to come.”

Every child deserves a family” was the beginning of Trump’s executive order last June, on “Strengthening the Child Welfare System for America’s Children.” The efforts included working with state and local groups to place children in loving homes more quickly and to try to have fewer children entering the system to begin with.

Lynn Johnson is the assistant secretary at the Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families. In a podcast from The Daily Signal that I am quoting, she said, “So President Trump’s executive order was the culmination of months and months of collaborative work that was sparked by the All-in Foster Adoption campaign we started.”

Since Lynn Johnson has been in contact with the Biden transition team, she is hopeful that the new administration will continue the program. Already many state governors are on board with it.

I hope that the new president will carefully evaluate these very worthy executive orders.

Margaret Brechon

Dixon