'Pro-life' is the 'Defund the Police' of the GOP
Refusing to acknowledge election results is not a good way to go through life.
Tuesday night, Ohio became the SEVENTH state to emphatically reject the tiniest restriction on abortion. It joins California, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, and Vermont.
For half a century, right-wingers have screamed, There’s nothing in the constitution about abortion! It’s up to the states!
We won, the states voted— and voted and voted and voted — and we lost. Every time. It turns out (no matter what they tell pollsters or their neighbors) the people LOVE abortion. They want no restrictions. None. Not the tiniest little imposition. Montana voters rejected a law that would have merely require life-saving treatment be given to babies accidentally born alive during an abortion. That lost, 53% to 47%.
Four states have put the right to abortion in their constitutions - Michigan, Vermont and California and, now, Ohio.
Fellow pro-lifers: This is the “change hearts and minds” part of the battle, not the “force Republicans to keep losing elections” part.
Although there’s always my excellent Peace of Westphalia-style compromise proposal on abortion: Make it illegal ONLY for Registered Republicans.
I'm seeing a lot of conservatives in the mold of Matt Walsh complaining tonight that "we" need to "change our approach" to abortion. (We, meaning Republicans in or running for office, evidently.) Yes, "we" should change it by replacing the abortion issue entirely with popular issues like crime and immigration, and focus on them with the same zeal and passion.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!
Rather than trying to convince people abortion is wrong, Republicans have been acting like Democrats, and demanding that their moral view should become law. The result is that they neither get the restrictions on abortion they want OR the ability to be elected. This is really foolish!
Kirk Lindvig