Democrats across the country are running solely on the topic of abortion rights, and winning. In case you missed the results, Democrats retained the State Senate in Virginia and have wound up taking over the House of Delegates as well. It was the anti-trifecta Governor Glenn Youngkin and Republicans in the state were hoping for.
Crime, taxes, school boards, none of it matters, apparently, more than the right to end the life of an unborn child.
It wasn’t Republicans talking about abortion, it was Democrats, in Virginia, and other states, endlessly running ad after ad claiming abortion rights were on the ballot and “MAGA extremists” were going to ban the barbaric practice.
Governor Youngkin said he would support and sign a 15-week ban that included exceptions for rape, incest, and the life of the mother, a law similar to most of the civilized world, but that was too much for the abortion zealots.
Virginia Democrats are gleeful this morning that their message prevailed and sent Youngkin’s hopes of a presidential run packing as well:
Virginia Democrats who campaigned on protecting abortion rights swept Tuesday’s legislative elections, retaking full control of the General Assembly after two years of divided power.
The outcome is a sharp loss for Gov. Glenn Youngkin and his fellow Republicans, who exerted a great deal of energy, money and political capital on their effort to secure a GOP trifecta.
“It’s official: there will be absolutely no abortion ban legislation sent to Glenn Youngkin’s desk for the duration of his term in office, period, as we have thwarted MAGA Republicans’ attempt to take total control of our government and our bodies,” Virginia Senate Democratic Caucus Chair Mamie Locke said in a statement referencing Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.
Democrats will always stand for abortion, it’s their holiest sacrament. Independents were the deciders in some of the tighter races and the constant barrage of ads painting Republicans as the “extremists” trying to limit abortion in any way seems to have worked. Limiting abortions to the point where unborn babies can feel pain? How extreme!
In Ohio, too, a reliably red state that voted handily for Trump, a proposal to enshrine abortion rights into the state constitution prevailed without much pushback.
There is no middle ground for Democrats on the issue, and independents are leaning on the side of unfettered abortion contrasted with reasonable and sane limits. Gone are the days of safe, legal, and rare. Welcome to unregulated, encouraged, and celebrated. Was nothing learned from Kermit Gosnell?
Never mind that abortion clinics and Planned Parenthood disproportionally target women of color in minority neighborhoods, Democrats avoid that alarming statistic like the plague. They talk about equity and oppression all day long yet they ignore the genocide of unborn African-American children of the past many decades. There’s no compassion or concern about victimized minority women being funneled into the abortion machine for profit sent back to the Democratic Party.
But then, let’s digress from examining the mental sickness inflicted on a society that insists on sacrificing its young to the altar of abortion politics.
There is no legislating evil away, there is only the alternative of offering hope and compassion. There is only educating and convincing moderate fence-sitters that life is precious and deserves protection. Black lives matter, apparently, so long as they’re already born. Unborn life is dehumanized as merely a clump of cells or a fetus, the most degrading thing that happens to another human being.
The abortion lobby has effectively won the issue of ensuring that voters are willing to cast all other matters aside to ensure the unfettered right to snuff out the life of an unborn child.
With that said, expect abortion to the at the forefront for Democrats in 2024. It will be every ad and every campaign in every part of the country from now until eternity.
