Depending on the channel or service, if you watch “television,” you get five minutes of ads about abortion for every 8-10 minutes of programming. It’s aggravating with little pushback, so I’ll share at least two things about this single-issue, media carpet-bombing I think you need to know.
First, these ads are for Democrats and maybe some grossly ill-informed independents. The economy sucks, we are in a recession, food and energy prices have doubled, the border and national security are a mess, we are 31 trillion in debt, borrowing money is more expensive, and we are in a proxy war with the sidecar potential for nuclear strikes.
And that smiley-face unity, sanity narrative they peddled up to the 2020 election collapsed on day one and has dug itself a nearly bottomless hole.
So, Democrats are talking about abortion. Why?
When your side has failed so completely, a midterm election becomes something your rank-and-file voter might skip. Abortion is, for many Lefties, a hot-button issue with no exceptions, so if you are the Democrats and want to try and shore up turnout, it might be THE issue to push. Turnout is everything, even if you plan to cheat.
If you sweep up a few votes from independents, that’s good too. Maybe you save a seat here and there at the state or federal level.
The first point informs the second.
Because abortion is a hot-button issue with no exception, the reality is that the push to shore up turnout has nothing to do with women’s health. It is not about contraception, cancer screenings, or any other notion about services at abortion clinics, real or imagined. The Democrat position is that abortion should be legal from conception to live birth. Period.
This is about the right to kill newborns.
We know this to be true here in New Hampshire. We have a relatively new law that limits abortions after 24 weeks. You can kill the preborn baby growing inside you for six months. An entire Hockey season. It’s also (more or less) a Major League baseball season. That’s a lot of time. And abortions are permitted after six months to save the mother’s life; though, according to a critical care nurse I know with over 30 years in emergency medicine, she’s never seen or even heard of that.
Never. Not once.
At six months, there is no debate about heartbeats, viability outside the womb, or the uniqueness of DNA. Planned Parenthood’s illegal baby part-selling scheme preferred them six months or more because the organs are viable. Meaning they are, for lack of a better term, human.
It is not about women’s health. Democrats want the right to kill a baby even after it is born—no restrictions on ending the life even after it takes a breath.
They claim any objection to that is extreme. Refusing to allow the state to sanction the murder of newborn babies is extreme. I think most people agree that the Democrat position is not just extreme, it is evil.
If you are interested in ending extremism, that seems like a great place to start.
