Posted on 06/19/2003 7:15:23 AM PDT by jmstein7
Free Abortion on Demand for All!
Here’s a fact: today, the pro-choice movement (pro-abortion movement) and pro-choice lobbies (pro-abortion lobbies) have almost little or nothing to do with abortion per se. These groups, at their core, have only two interests: money and political gain.
The “Abortion Card” is a powerful political weapon, especially for politicians with no or old ideas – read “Democrats”. When a Republican opponent is ahead in the polls, is raising more money than you, and has proposed bold, new ideas, simply tell the public that what he really wants is to send masses of women into back alleys with hangers. The sad thing is that this tactic can be viable. Abortion is political crack for liberals – once they experience the “high” it gives them in the polls, they keep coming back for more.
There is also a plethora money to be made from abortion. Groups like NOW, NARAL, and Planned Parenthood rake in the green yearly by employing the same scare tactics. Other abortion lobbies and lobbyists take in serious cash the same way. “Abortion Providers” make a killing by the business thrown their way by the latter groups.
In return for the patronage, the “providers” provide kickbacks, in the form of contributions, to the abortion movement and its associated groups. It’s a vicious cycle. The fact is, abortion is an industry, and, like any industry, it needs money and advertising. “A woman’s right to chose” is merely a hollow vehicle (and hollow mantra) for the abortion advertising execs. So, what is a conservative Republican to do when assaulted by these “pro-choice” politicians and groups? I have a solution: propose and support free abortion on demand. Let me explain.
By free, I don’t mean to insinuate that the government should pay for it – only a liberal would construe a government benefit as “free”. I mean that neither the government nor the private individual seeking the abortion should have to fork over a dime. Let the assaulted conservative propose that all abortions be funded by private donations. He should posit that all the private money pouring into NOW, NARAL, et al could be put to better use directly funding the “right” these groups claim they are seeking to protect. Further, he could argue that doing so would provide abortions to the poor minorities that such liberal groups always complain are “denied access” to abortion.
By “on demand”, I don’t really mean anything at all. Woman can already get abortions on demand, and that phrase has no true meaning whatsoever. The reality is, until Republicans build up a large enough majority to pass meaningful pro-life legislation and put pro-life justices on the bench unchallenged, there isn’t much that can be done to change the availability and legal status of abortion. Thus, a Republican politician can support “abortion on demand” by simply doing nothing. The only thing that would change, as per the previous paragraph, is how abortion is funded.
What good would this do?
In a nutshell, it would smoke-out the entire abortion establishment and give Republicans the upper hand. Politically, it would eliminate abortion as a political vehicle for attacking conservatives. It would also empty the coffers, and eviscerate the fundraising abilities, of the pro-choice groups, which, to their detriment, they would be powerless to stop. They have so elevated and engrained the importance of “free and legal” abortion, that they simply could not oppose such a proposition. Thus, the abortionists will have sealed their own fate. By rendering the “abortion card” politically impotent and cutting off the money that flows into pro-abortion groups, the pro-life movement would have achieved a significant portion of its goals and could move forward, unobstructed, with the balance of its agenda. Though the proposal is counterintuitive, it works, and there is no defense that liberals could use against it.
{Exit, stage left, singing in a low voice-}
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