The goal of the pro-life movement has never been a secret: Make abortion illegal and unthinkable. How we reach that goal is its own debate, but we’ve never been shy about what we believe and what it is we’re fighting for.
Abortion activists, however, have hidden behind a veil of ambiguity for years. At first, their position was that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare.” They eventually abandoned that and moved on to a position in which a woman’s bodily autonomy trumps all else.
Noticeably, neither of these positions come with specifics. They refuse to say when the cutoff point for abortions should be during pregnancy or whether there should be one at all. They hesitate to say when they believe an unborn child should be considered a human life. Press abortion activists ever so slightly on what it is they’re advocating and they deflect to a tired talking point about Roe v. Wade or women’s rights.
Take, for example, Arizona Democratic gubernatorial candidate Katie Hobbs, who refused to say whether she would support limits on abortion if elected this November .
“Politicians do not belong in that decision,” Hobbs told CNN. “The decision about abortion should be between a patient and their doctor.”
CNN’s Dana Bash continued to press her: “So there should be no limits in the law? It should only be decided in the medical office?”
“Government making these kinds of mandates interferes with the care that doctors need to provide to their patients,” Hobbs responded. “They don’t belong in these decisions.”
Who can blame her? The alternative would be to admit the truth: She believes abortion should be available at every stage of pregnancy, for any reason at all, with no restrictions whatsoever. And to admit that would be to admit that she has more in common with the totalitarians of North Korea and China than with the American public. So she instead word-vomited her way around the question and hoped no one would notice.
Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman was at least a bit more forthright in his response to a similar question.
“Do you support any restrictions on abortion?” CNN asked him.
He responded: “I don’t.”
“Even in the third trimester?” CNN pressed.
Fetterman shook his head and said, “I believe that choice is between a woman and her doctor and her God if she prays to one.”
It’s impossible to overstate just how extreme the position of Hobbs and Fetterman is. Even the vast majority of pro-abortion voters support limits on the procedure, especially during the third trimester. Most people would prefer to restrict the procedure after the first trimester, according to public polling.
Abortion activists and their Democratic allies are nowhere near this position anymore, and they’re finally being forced to go on the record and say so out loud.
* Article from: The Washington Examiner
