Posted on 01/25/2006 3:47:16 PM PST by bigsky
The Democrats are trying to "reframe" their message to make people think they believe abortion is wrong. I think this is going to be a hard sell if they plan to continue ferociously defending abortion-on-demand right up until the moment the baby's head is through the birth canal.
But both The New York Times and The Washington Post have recently run op-eds by liberals calling for Democrats to abandon their single-minded devotion to Roe v. Wade.
In the Post, Richard Cohen said it was time for liberals to "untether abortion rights from Roe." Cohen admitted that conservatives (and "some liberals," he claimed implausibly) have a point when they say abortion ought to be decided by the states. This is another way of saying abortion is not a constitutional right. Kate Michelman: Call your abortion mill!
In The New York Times, William Saletan gently counseled feminists that it was time to admit: "It's bad to kill a fetus." And they say liberals have no values!
Even Jimmy Carter, the Democrats' idea of an Evangelical Christian, has allowed that "I don't believe that Christ would approve of abortions." (Though Carter added that Christ would approve of abortion if "the mother's life or health was seriously endangered or the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest" -- or if Jesus really, really needed the feminists to vote for him.)
It's been a long time coming, but the Democrats are finally throwing the NARAL ladies off the boat.
One by one, the Democratic Party keeps having to abandon all the insane positions that have made it the funny, silly party we've come to know and love.
The gun control fanatics were thrown overboard after President Bill Clinton and a Democratic Congress passed the 1994 crime bill that banned so-called "assault weapons" -- i.e., otherwise completely legal semiautomatic weapons that looked scary to Dianne Feinstein.
As a result, the Democrats lost Congress for the first time in 40 years and lost the South forever. When is the last time you heard a Democrat use the words "gun control"?
In 1995, the new Republican Congress sent a welfare reform bill to Clinton, a man who had campaigned on "mend it, don't end it" and then refused to do anything about it.
Not one Democrat resigned from the Clinton administration when Clinton turned out to be molesting the help and committing lots of felonies. But a whole slew of them resigned to protest Clinton's signing the Republicans' welfare reform bill.
You never hear a peep out of Democrats anymore about restoring government welfare programs to their former glory.
Now it's the abortion ladies' turn.
As Saletan informed feminists in his Times column:
"You can tell yourself that the pro-choice majority stayed home in the last election, or that they voted on other issues, or that Democrats botched the debate. But those excuses are getting tired. Sixteen years ago, as the behavior of voters and politicians showed, abortion was clearly a winning issue for you. Now it isn't. You have a problem."
It's finally happened: Abortion stopped a bleeding heart.
I guess Sandra Day O'Connor's demand that "the contending sides" on abortion "end their national division" and accept the court's diktat in Roe didn't work out for her.
As Abraham Lincoln said of another moral blight on the nation supported by Democrats: You can "repeal the Declaration of Independence -- repeal all past history -- you still cannot repeal human nature. It will still be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak."
Or, as Justice Antonin Scalia said, the court's refusal to overrule the lawless Roe decision would not stand because of "the twin facts that the American people love democracy and the American people are not fools."
With even liberals backing away from Roe, apparently the last group of people on Earth to realize the Supreme Court's abortion jurisprudence is a catastrophe is going to be the Supreme Court.
Even though it will probably help the Dems to abandon "abortion rights," and possibly capture some of the support the moral high-road has given the Republican party, it is a wonderful thing!
"It's been a long time coming, but the Democrats are finally throwing the NARAL ladies off the boat."
Are they, really, or is this just more posturing in an election year?
Sure - which one is more important though?
It's not a "fetus". It's a baby.
No expectant mother goes to a "fetus shower".
I think they will begin drifting, ever so slowly away from defending Roe, unless they are in safe, commie urban areas like San Fran.
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That's what happens when they just make stuff up as they go along. "emanating from the penumbra...."
They are equally important, for entirely different reasons.
That's like asking which is more important abortion or winning the war on terror. Or which is more important, assisted suicide or adequate oil supplies.
Apples and oranges.
I hope she's wrong. We've got 'em surrounded now and out in the open. Without abortion, they may make some progress, and even without abortion they still have a lot of toxin in their systems.
I'm not sure about this. There is an awful lot of money the dims raise tied to this issue, more than just the feminists. Most Hollyweird money is radically pro-abortion as is the NEA. The dims may go down with the ship rather than throw this issue overboard. Look at the Alito vote - straight party-line opposition to an eminently qualified 15 year veteran of a federal Court of Appeals due to one, single issue: abortion.
You didn't ask me, but I'll give my answer anyway. From a moral standpoint, nothing is more important than abortion. From an urgency to the country standpoint, I think immigration rules.
Not every one is a one trick pony. Still shilling for illegals?
It's ok to use the word "fetus". According to Wikipedia:
The word fetus originates from the Latin fetus meaning "offspring," "act of bearing young," or "is or was filled with young". Foetus is an English variation on this rather than a Latin or Greek word, but has been in use since at least 1594 according to the OED, which describes fetus as etymologically preferable but almost unknown in actual use.
Although the pro-abort/pro-death crowd tries to dehumanize babies when it uses "fetus" instead of "baby", they are actually unknowingly confirming a child's humanity by using that word.
Baby shower does sound cuter than offspring shower or young-one shower, anyway. :)
Thanks friend.
I'm just tired of hearing abortion as the "litmus test" for everyone in public life.
As for the Democrats, it will take more than the little Dutch boy to plug the holes in that dike.
From a moral AND an urgency to the country standpoint, nothing is more important than abortion.
Sorry if you think prioritizing equates to ignoring - and I'm not so much "shilling for illegals" and "defending American values and common sense."
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