For the past two years, Democrats have been spitballing on the abortion issue. Needless to say, their allies in the media are also licking their tongues.
here is the heading Axios: “Democrats’ new abortion fighting plan: Rush to get it on the ballot in 2024.” Associated Press: “Democrats see abortion as a key issue in 2024.” politiko: “Democrats are hoping to win abortion rights.” USA Today: “House Democrats plan 2024 comeback: abortion, economy, unity.” and From April 12th washington post: “Biden team increasingly wants to win on abortion issue.”
Some background is needed here both to understand the abortion issue and to develop an appropriate anti-pro-life strategy. It’s a strategy that maximizes both the protection of the unborn and the well-being of the Republican Party, which is, after all, the only major pro-life party. Hope to remain in the Democratic Party He was fired by Vice President Kamala Harris on March 14. visited Planned Parenthood abortion clinic praised for its gruesome work.
Supreme Court 2022 dobbs The decision was right and even just. It overturned the court’s 1973 ruling egg The decision was a horrific judicial overreach in which seven justices sought to invalidate state law and “legislate” a liberal state’s abortion policy. surely, egg This was the high water mark of 1960s-style liberal judicial activism, and is the source of many of our problems to this day.
Pro-life activists celebrate the Dobbs decision overturning the controversial 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion decision outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., June 24, 2022. (Valerie Preche/Bloomberg via Getty Images )
Pro-life activists celebrate the Dobbs decision overturning the controversial 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion decision outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., June 24, 2022. (Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Pro-life activists celebrate the Dobbs decision overturning the controversial 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion decision outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on June 24, 2022. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)
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Dobbs undo eggsending the abortion issue back to the states for their respective legislatures to resolve. It should always have been clear that the 50 states, from Alabama to Wyoming, would come up with different answers on the abortion issue, depending on their ideological and cultural diversity.
Indeed, from a pro-life (or pro-choice) perspective, such patchy results are unsatisfactory because some states may make the “wrong” decisions. But as a matter of fact, that’s the way it should be. After all, politics is the art of the possible. In fact, the framers anticipated that states would have different views on serious issues.of 10th Amendment It is the rock that guarantees the rights of nations. Tolerating differences between states helps avoid conflict while situation.
Two years ago, this author on Breitbart News: dobbs A decision headlined “Supreme Court confirms federalism as constitutional solution to abortion.” egg It was wrong because it trampled on the state, Dobbs It was right because it gave powers to the states.
yes, dobbs We have established a system that allows pro-life nations to protect lives when necessary. Again, it’s not a perfect solution, but it’s the best possible solution, including the Republican electoral prospects.
But then some Republicans went too far. Three months after that, dobbs In September 2022, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee and often seen on TV, will make a decision. announced law That would result in a 15-week federal ban. Mr. Graham may have been expressing sincere pro-life views, but in doing so he provoked a fierce backlash. It’s another thing to tell a pro-choice woman in New York City that abortion is prohibited in the land of overpasses. The possibility of it being banned in Manhattan is another story entirely. That’s why the checks are going to Planned Parenthood and the Democratic National Committee.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “Assault on Reproductive Rights in a Post-Dobbs America” on April 26, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)
The simple fact that most Americans are At least to some extent in favor.
As we remember, the 2022 midterm elections were disappointing. No wonder Democrats were implementing the same pro-abortion strategy in 2024, even before the Arizona Supreme Court’s bizarre ruling reinstating 1864 abortion. Law.
Enter Mr. Trump. It’s now famous, video President Trump, who was released from prison on April 8, recalled that his three Supreme Court nominees said: Dobbs He also expressed his view that leaving abortion to the 50 states is the right path. This nuanced position will force Republicans to shift their focus back to the Democratic Party and its “radical” national positions on late-term abortion, Trump added.
Trump-supporting Republicans echoed this message. charlie kirk claimed: “Mr. Trump’s position is morally clear while allowing pro-life groups to continue fighting to win over Americans and win at the state level. Mr. Trump has successfully threaded the needle. passed.”
mike cernovich I remembered His supporters said that “voters in Republican states have rejected every ballot measure that would ban abortion.” Ann Coulter Said: “Pro-lifers need to be told that they can’t have everything they want. If the Republicans give you this, they will lose their jobs and the people who will replace them will be you.” I want him dead.”
Trump supporter Alex Brucewicz claimed President Trump’s position is “defending the culture of life,” he said. Brusewitz added, “Meanwhile, Biden and the Democrats want abortion-on-demand, post-birth abortion, and many other sick and twisted policies!” Democrats are extremists on this issue! ”
A pro-life activist holds a placard at the 2023 MCCL March for Life rally. (Michael Silk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Proving that point, in 2023, Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives voted en masse against Republican-backed legislation. Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Actheld that infants born alive after an attempted abortion are “legal entities for all purposes under the laws of the United States.” And babies should be protected from being murdered. It may seem hard to argue with that, but Democrats did. The bill passed the House 220-210. Of the 220 people who said yes, 219 were Republicans, and all 210 who said no were Democrats. The bill subsequently died in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
It is this Democratic radicalism that maintains the right to life. Penny Nance, CEO of Concerned Women for America, said: Said“If you’re pro-life, you can’t vote for Joe Biden,” or even a Biden-Harris type Democrat.
South Dakota Republican Governor Kristi Noem Added Here’s what she says: “Different states make different decisions about life. What voters in South Dakota want may be different than what voters in California want. South Dakota is pro-life and baby , mothers and families, we are proud to support them.” Trump himself emphasize Same point: “It’s all about states’ rights.”
.@realDonaldTrump That’s exactly right…this is about a “precious baby”. Having a baby should be easier, not harder, for mothers, fathers, and families.
Different states make different decisions regarding life. What South Dakota voters want may be different than what voters want… https://t.co/odrUm2rZ1c
— Kristi Noem (@KristiNoem) April 8, 2024
Without respect for the state, one can only imagine the debacle of trying to prosecute an abortion case in a pro-blue choice state.It will be a counterproductive circus of protests, non-cooperation and OJ Simpson trial. jury invalidation.
President Joe Biden speaks at a Reclaim Roe campaign rally in Manassas, Virginia, on January 23, 2024. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty)
Meanwhile, Democrats are raiding Arizona and its 11 electors. Biden re-election campaign was dispatched Vice President Harris rushed there. Harris claimed that Trump is “responsible for the pain and suffering of millions of women and families… He took away your freedom.” As if the 1864 law, enacted 82 years before Trump was born, is to blame!
President Trump responded with a truthful social “truth”:
The Arizona Supreme Court went too far in its ruling on abortion, enacting and approving inappropriate laws starting in 1864. So now, the Governor and the Arizona Legislature must use their hearts and common sense to act immediately to correct what happened.
These are the highest stakes. For now, pro-lifers will be well-advised to try to build a culture of life in the states where they can’t win, while winning in the states where they can and protecting lives as much as possible.
Even with the best strategies, it will be a long battle with uncertain outcomes. But if the strategy is wrong, re-elected Joe Biden be. And that means the federal government, including the judiciary, is actively hostile to life.
