Abortion fans have been telling so many lies for the reason that Supreme Court docket overturned Roe v. Wade final week, it’s laborious to take them critically.
Now President Biden and Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi are salivating on the prospect that “abortion is on the poll,” versus inflation, crime, border safety and all the problems which have the Democrats beneath water and with no viable coverage.
However abortion will not be the electoral game-changer they hope for, and largely that’s as a result of the lies they inform themselves and their supporters have precipitated them to lose contact with the truth of America.
Lie 1: Biden and Pelosi are ‘religious Catholics’
“Girls caring for his or her well being” is the president’s euphemism for abortion.
It was a “unhappy day” and “a tragic error,” stated Biden, when the Supreme Court docket returned the difficulty to the voters and their elected state representatives to resolve. He vowed to “do all the pieces in my energy” to protect abortion.
Pelosi known as the choice “outrageous” and “criminalizing reproductive freedom,” one other euphemism which tries to cover the loss of life component of abortion.
Like Biden, her unequivocal assist for abortion is wildly at odds with Catholic educating and her ostentatious religiosity.
“I’m very Catholic, religious, training,” she has declared.
However San Francisco’s Catholic archbishop, Salvatore J. Cordileone, final month rebuked Pelosi over her vocal assist for abortion, and declared she could be denied Communion.
Biden has escaped accountability for his abortion advocacy. I suppose we’ve to take his phrase for it that Pope Francis instructed him in April that he was a “good Catholic” and may proceed receiving Communion.
However the Vatican is all for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, issuing a press release praising the choice final week, and the pope explicitly has known as abortion homicide, likening it to “hiring a success man.”
Lie 2: Most Individuals assist abortion
Polls present nearly 9 in 10 Individuals oppose Biden and Pelosi’s excessive place of abortion on demand till start.
A Trafalgar Group ballot final month confirmed lower than 12% of Individuals assist abortions to start, whereas 57% imagine abortions needs to be banned as soon as an unborn child’s heartbeat will be detected at about six weeks. Even amongst Democrats, solely 19% assume that abortion needs to be authorized till start.
Scientific advances exhibiting us detailed ultrasound pictures contained in the womb, and permitting untimely infants to outlive at 25 weeks, have modified the equation. Most Individuals need affordable restrictions with compassionate exceptions to safeguard the mom’s life and within the circumstances of rape and incest — which Deliberate Parenthood’s personal analysis arm, the Guttmacher Institute, says is lower than 1% of abortions.
What’s extra, a Rasmussen ballot final month confirmed 48% of voters stated they’d approve of the Supreme Court docket overturning Roe v. Wade, and 45% would disapprove. Amongst Democratic voters, 33% stated they’d approve.
And a Fox Information ballot discovered 54% of voters supported state legal guidelines banning abortion at 15 weeks, similar to in Mississippi, the place the Supreme Court docket case originated.
Lie 3: Abortion might be a vote-winner for Democrats
If they’re so against the Supreme Court docket choice, why don’t Democrats merely cross a legislation to codify Roe v. Wade, since they management Washington?
Effectively, they tried it already with the Girls’s Well being Safety Act, and failed. The Senate voted 49-51 towards the invoice, which might have overridden state abortion legal guidelines, effectively in need of the 60 votes wanted. The issue, as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez complains, is that members of their very own occasion are pro-life.
Biden claims America has develop into an outlier, when really it was an outlier beneath Roe, since solely 5 different international locations — together with China and North Korea — permit abortion till the second of start.
Lie 4: ‘Christo-fascists’ introduced this on
The reality is Democrats strayed too removed from public opinion. The place as soon as the phrase “secure, authorized and uncommon” summed up a palatable place for Democrats, they allowed extremists to push it to abortion any time for any purpose, together with for intercourse choice and to eliminate Down syndrome infants, which is opposed by 70% of Individuals, in line with a Knights of Columbus survey final 12 months.
In Mississippi, it wasn’t pro-life activists however an abortion clinic that went to courtroom to overturn the state legislation banning abortions after 15 weeks, besides within the case of a mom’s life being threatened. It’s their very own fault, and Harry Reid’s filibuster reform additionally performed a task.
Lie 5: Abortion is a constitutional proper, and contraception and homosexual marriage are subsequent on the chopping block
Unsuitable. The Structure mentions nothing about abortion. All of the Supreme Court docket did was ship abortion regulation again to the states, the place it all the time belonged. Abortion stays out there, however there are actually 50 abortion legal guidelines. All 13 states with so-called set off legal guidelines permit abortions to save lots of the lifetime of the mom.
As for the slippery slope which Pelosi & Co. are fearmongering about, Justice Samuel Alito explicitly wrote that “nothing on this opinion needs to be understood to forged doubt on precedents that don’t concern abortion,” similar to contraception and homosexual marriage.
Whereas Justice Clarence Thomas wrote individually that different “substantive precedents” determined by the courtroom on “due course of” needs to be re-examined, he simply says they need to be primarily based on different constitutional provisions. In any case, no different justice agreed.
Lie 6: Corporations which can be providing 1000’s of {dollars} to staff who need abortions interstate are enlightened
Hardly. They need to supply related lump sums to pregnant staff who preserve their infants.
However let the woke corporates function an inspiration for Republicans to enact Hungarian-style insurance policies, which reward moms and dads handsomely for having kids and encourage them to have heaps extra.
