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.
If you are castrated and have to wear a burkha you might change your tune. But you are entitled to your opinions, which are almost as valid as mine. Cheers.
And no woman ever cried on another's shoulder and said:
We lost the fetus.
"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?"
The DNC and all their special interest groups can no longer hide behind the skirts of the MSM. America has woken up and finally see that these whackos on the left are not the mainstream, but fringe groups that when combined make up about 20% of the population.
As the 60's loonies die off, we will see a resurgence of conservatism like the world has never seen.
Actually, if America had allowed those 40 million children to be born and grow up into productive citizens, perhaps we would not have needed to rely instead on the illegal immigration labor force.
Cheers to you as well.
Thank you, as usual. She's definitely on the upswing again. Excellent.
Sometimes nicknames stick and can be very descriptive, such as Robert Bird's nickmane, Sheetz. Annie, to me, should be Stilts. I like her sharp tongue, but her knees and elbows are equally sharp.
Give that girl a steak.
Quite true. However, I think the winds are changing on this issue.
It is ironic that blacks flock to a political party which was founded on the idea of keeping blacks in slavery.
Perhaps- or would that mean 40,000,000 more welfare-sucking Democrat voters? I imagine Conservative women have abortions at a far lower rate than Liberals.
At least the Illegals can't vote- yet.
Read the words of one of the unborn's most vocal supporters:
Please FReepmail me if you would like to be added to, or removed from, the Pro-Life/Pro-Baby ping list...
If I'm not mistaken, even Ginsberg at one point said the USSC had no place in taking it on. It was certainly not a civil rights issue (a constitutionally guaranteed right cannot be given to one group over another, as in to females over males, think women's suffrage and its impetus). So it certainly was not a USSC case to settle but a state issue.
Where are those little plastic babies available? I'd like to give them out at our next pro-life event.
And, which party do you think those illegal aliens would vote for if they could? Seriously though, you have a good point about alternative history scenarios - most of the time, you can only say for sure that things would be different - which is why I could not understand why Trent Lott had to resign his leadership position for stating that truth. We may have had all sorts of other problems, but there's no double America would not have all the problems we have now had Thurmond been elected President rather than Truman.
I agree. I think public opinion has been swinging around our way for several years. I'll believe the Dims get it, however, when I see their leadership agree to restrictions on partial birth abortion, the most basic, most obvious reform needed.
All I've heard after the 2004 election is "but-monkey" drivel. I'm against abortion, but I really do have "values." I'm against abortion, but despite my appearance of being a statist regulator in my bones, I'm really a libertarian in drag and oppose government intrusion into family matters. Yada, yada, yada.
We'll see. I do think there are some savvy Dim advisers who have figured out they are actually losing elections on this issue.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
The Founding Fathers had surely heard of another evil in practice before abortion. Women would carry the baby to term and then it would be handed over to another woman (forget what she was called) and it would be held and rocked and *not* fed until it died. Now THAT is evil!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.