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A pro-abortion filibuster has overcome a Texas bill that would have curtailed late-term abortions. Killing babies in the womb so pregnant women aren’t inconvenienced is being called “democracy in action.”
But the Weekly Standard published a piece Wednesday that shows “democracy” was thwarted :
A new National Journal poll on late-term abortion is somewhat biased against the pro-life side: The poll’s question claims the bill passed last week in the House of Representatives only contains exceptions in the cases of rape or incest without mentioning that there is also an exception for when a physical health condition puts the life of the mother at risk. Despite the biased question, the poll still finds that a majority of women support the bill (50 percent to 44 percent), with Americans overall backing the bill 48 percent to 44 percent. Independent voters back the bill by 14 points (53 percent to 39 percent).
Gallup polls that ask more straightforward questions find that only 27 percent of Americans support second-trimester abortions and only 14 percent support third-trimester abortions.
Strong opposition to late-term abortion is often ignored by journalists. For example, last night Democratic state senator Wendy Davis filibustered a bill in Texas banning most abortions later than 20 weeks into pregnancy. Her filibuster was treated as a popular uprising by many in the press, but a Texas Tribune poll found that 62 percent of Texans supported the restriction on late-term abortions.
“Democracy” to leftists means they always get their way, regardless of what most Americans think. Such is the case with Obamacare, immigration, and late-term abortion, which is only legal in every state due to the Supreme Court’s imperious ruling in Roe v. Wade. When something leftists agree with — like stricter gun control measures — fails, they always whip out cliches like ‘democracy has failed.’
Arbitrary termination of human life — whether by people or by citizens — is wrong. Using verbal gymnastics to call something that would grow up to be an adult human being a ‘blob,’ a ‘neoplasm,’ a ‘zygote,’ a ‘fetus’ or whatever does not take away from the reality that we’re talking about the essence of an individual person. It doesn’t matter if the tiny being is helpless or unaware that a doctor or mother is about to snuff its nascent life out.
The abortion debate pivots around the notion that everything is just a matter of opinion, and to make any judgment whatsoever about the practice is wrong. This subjectivism is taken to such an extent that people are actually killing babies in the womb at a late-stage of development because, it’s like, “just your opinion.” But logic dictates that we are talking about the essence of human life. It isn’t difficult to see how if we applied the pro-abortion position more broadly, the entire legal edifice for Western society crumbles.
If society is “judgmental” for demanding women take responsibility for their bodies, in those cases where it is applicable, then what kind of licentiousness ensues? If people are “anti-woman” for defending the right to live of a fellow human being, provided it meets the criterion of being able to live outside the womb, what if the baby is a female? It’s all speciousness and hysteria in rebuttal.
Abortion is one of the lynchpins of the hard left agenda, and that’s why left-wing activists fight so rabidly for it. The implication of abortion is it’s a cheapening of human life. That’s really what the pro-abortion fanaticism is all about; regardless of what the unblinking supporter thinks about the practice, and despite the extreme, worst-case scenario cases that are always presented as the rebuttal to the gruesome practice of late-term abortions as a whole.
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