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.
The RATS have even gone beyond partial birth abortions and are now claiming it's the woman's right to have a chainsaw abortion.
and the dims are losing all their births of bleeding hearts.
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I don't really get how the title makes sense.
Thanks for the ping!
"I don't think Howard Dean is going to follow that, so there may be a power struggle in the DNC."
I understand the DNC is courting a new leader, some guy in Pakistan named Usama something.
"The dims may go down with the ship rather than throw this issue overboard."
There is always a chance that this will be a grand slam HR for the GOP with the Dim potty splintering into two or more parties, one the traditional Dims (whatever the Hell that means) and then, of course, the anti-war but kill the babies party.
"Bush won 23 of the top 24 states with the highest birth rate. They all were blue.
Kerry won 16 states with the lowest birth rate. they all were red."
You've got the colors reversed. Blue=The Traitor and Coward, Red=Our President.
The right to an abortion is not mentioned in the Constitution. It should be a state issue, not a federal issue
It's EEEEEEEEEEEEEEvolution.
No I don't. I think I read it here on FR but I could be mistaken about that.
read later
BINGO! The prevalent sign of the deadly disease known as Liberalism.
I do think, however, that if immigration is not controlled soon, the abortion fight will be lost. The reasons I think this are too complicated to go into here, but suffice it to say, more Democratic voters cannot be a good thing for the pro-life movement.
Of course, it could happen that the Pro-Choicers get disgusted with the Democrats and decide to go third party. I am sure Abortion will remain a plank in the Green Party Platform for the forseeable future, since it fits in with all their greenie-weenie population control nonsense.
If a serious third party movement captures even a portion of the Pro-Choice crowd, the Donks are toast, forever. Political parties come and political parties go. You don't see any Whigs around, anymore, after all. This may be the end of the Democrat Party.
It's possible. They split over national defense in the 1970's. And since Roe a lot of Catholics and evangelicals who traditionally voted Roosevelt Democrat drifted over to the pubbies. I just don't know if there are enough pro-life Democrats left to challenge the establishment or establish a new party.
A pro-life Democrat is running for Governor here and the Dims have made him pinky-swear he won't make any pro-life changes to state law or regulation, and they still may deny him the nomination.
There are a lot of women who make the hypocritical claim that while THEY would never have an abortion, they feel it needs to be a right for everyone else. So while they're to good to kill their kid, it's OK for other people to do it.
"Everyone else" of course, would be young, single welfare mothers, minorities, and others who the libs feel shouldn't reproduce. After all, the libs figure those folks aren't enlightened.
It's almost eugenic in nature - totally disgusting.
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Part of the answer is the title's similarity to a well-known pro-life truism:
The rest is Coulter's cleverness, tying her subject to "bleeding-heart liberals," who value animal lives, insect lives, and condemned-criminal lives, but not helpless, voiceless and choiceless unborn lives.
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