If the pro-life battle is lost, then our nation is lost. Legal abortion, perhaps more than anything else, symbolizes the death of Western Civilization. To capitulate on that is to concede everything in the long run.
Ultimately, the pro-aborts will abort themselves into oblivion and the sanctity of life will arise again. But that can only happen if we don’t follow your advice and concede defeat on this issue.
I'm not going to argue with this. I've personally told a friend that we are on a sinking ship, and - like the Titanic - should endeavor to find that part of the country that will remain above the water line before it all goes down.
But again, to be conservative is to be unafraid to face reality squarely in the face, whether that reality is pleasant or not.
And the reality IS that the pro-life battle is indeed "lost", if losing means that:
1 Roe v. Wade will be overturned (it won't be), or
2. A Constitutional amendment banning abortion will be passed (it won't be, either).
I accept those "realities".
I realize that others do not (that's realism, too).
Question:
I think it can be argued that if the draft was reinstated (which I advocate, but am not expecting any time soon), that it would energize the left in general, and particularly the young, as never before.
Having said that, do the anti-Roe folks ever even remotely consider that if the Supreme Court reversed Roe (sending it back to the states) that it, too, would create a groundswell constituency for The Left? One that could all-but permanently banish conservatism to the politcal back bench of America?
- John