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How The Obama Presidency Normalized Abortion Extremism
The Federalist ^ | March 4, 2019 | David Harsanyi

Posted on 03/04/2019 12:43:00 PM PST by detective

Last week, 44 Senate Democrats blocked a bill that would have saved babies who survived abortion attempts from negligent homicide. Presidential candidates Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, and Bernie Sanders all voted against Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse’s Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

Moderates, progressives, or socialists, it didn’t matter. Although the bill did nothing to restrict abortion, a yes vote would have been tantamount to admitting that babies subjected to post-22 week abortions are viable, which is something the alleged party of science can’t do.

But while the vote was perhaps the clearest indication of how radicalized the Democratic Party has become on the issue, it’s worth remembering it was the previous administration that normalized this position. Barack Obama, after all, was the first major presidential candidate to argue that unrestricted abortion—or, rather, “reproductive justice”—was one of the “fundamental rights” Americans possess. His administration did everything it could to transform a procedure that ended a life into something to celebrate.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: abortion; democrats; infanticide; obama
The Democratic Governor of Virginia described, in detail, how an infant would be murdered under a Virginia bill that protected doctors who participated in the post-birth termination of a once-viable, once-healthy infant for nearly any reason.

Democrats favor killing their own innocent children.

1 posted on 03/04/2019 12:43:00 PM PST by detective
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2 posted on 03/04/2019 12:46:12 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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Earlier: How The Obama Presidency Normalized Abortion Extremism.
3 posted on 03/04/2019 12:46:51 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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"Ideas have consequences." - Weaver

In his brilliant Gifford Lectures, Gabriel Marcel observes:

"What is immediately obvious is that whenever circumstances prevailing here and now lead to men being not only regarded as masses but actually treated as such—treated, that is, as aggregates, whose elements are transferable according to the demands of temporal vicissitudes—it becomes more and more difficult to keep in mind the inalienable characteristics of uniqueness and dignity which have hitherto been considered as attributes of the human soul created in the image of God. To say that these characteristics are becoming more and more lost to view is not enough; they are being, if one may so put it, actively denied, they are being trodden upon. Man may end by imagining that he can prove by his very behavior that he is not such a being as the theologians have defined."- Gabriel Marcel

4 posted on 03/04/2019 12:48:11 PM PST by loveliberty2 (`)
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You’re not a very good detective, are you?

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3732045/posts


5 posted on 03/04/2019 12:52:03 PM PST by humblegunner
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There is no such thing a a moderate Democrat. They are not liberals or progressives. Every one of them is a Marxist to one degree or another, meaning somewhere on the communist to socialist spectrum. Every one of them is anti-Constitutional and anti-American, no matter what they say to the contrary.


6 posted on 03/04/2019 12:53:12 PM PST by Avalon Memories ( Proud Deplorable. Proud born-in-the-USA AMERICAN Dreamer.)
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The Obama Presidency normalized more than abortion extremism, it "normalized" people like this

this congressman's character is truly questionable as is her citizenship.

7 posted on 03/04/2019 12:55:42 PM PST by yoe
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Speaking of Obama and the Left's insane attempt to remove President Trump....

BUILD THE WALL YOU HYPOCRITES SAID WE NEEDED BEFORE PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID HE WOULD BUILD IT.

8 posted on 03/04/2019 1:03:36 PM PST by yoe
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Notre Dame can never be forgiven. It gave the vile, pro abortion Obama a podium at an ostensibly Catholic University to deliver a commencement address and then bestowed on this bloody man an honorary degree of law. Ever since Notre Dame has been a cursed institution.


9 posted on 03/04/2019 1:09:51 PM PST by allendale (.)
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On Sunday Fox, Dingell told her personal friend Chris Wallace that she was for extreme environment, extreme abortion, extreme social justice, income equality. The difference between her and AOC and others who appear more extreme is that they want to move fast, she wants to move more slowly so there won’t be any backlash.

Dingell was afraid AOC would create a backlash.


10 posted on 03/04/2019 2:07:37 PM PST by spintreebob
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