Pro-Abortion Extremism

While some pro-life conservatives are still back on their heels, worried about managing the abortion issue and worried that they will be labeled as extremists, pro-abortion liberals at the state and federal level are taking the most extreme positions possible. 

Pro-abortion politicians are promoting radical bills that allow third trimester abortions – destroying an innocent baby in the eight or even ninth month of pregnancy. Polling shows that only 13% of Americans support that extreme position. Yet, somehow we’re still playing defense.

The latest example of the left’s obsession with abortion comes from Minnesota. So-called “progressives” in the state Senate there just jammed through a measure that is one of the most extreme in the nation. It is telling that the people advocating for this bill constantly referred to “pregnant people,” not women.

Once upon a time, abortion was a “women’s rights” issue. Not anymore. Insane leftists can no longer define what a woman is and now insist that men can get pregnant, too!

Conservatives in the Minnesota Senate offered 35 moderating amendments to this extreme bill, but they were all defeated by one vote, reflecting the 34 to 33 split in the chamber.

One defeated amendment would have made it optional for a mother to ask for anesthesia for her late-term baby who could feel pain. It was voted down on a party-line vote. If you immersed a kitten in saline solution to burn its skin off, you’d rightly be sent to jail. But in Minnesota, who cares if the preborn baby is feeling intense pain!

In states with conservative majorities, legislatures are advancing pro-life laws. Generally, they include exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother. In these states, they are seeking the common ground where most Americans are. 

But in every state with large left-wing majorities, they are adopting the most extreme positions possible, positions mimicking communist China and North Korea. 

Yet, pro-life politicians are not able to get critical mass in the media, through ads or grassroots pressure to expose how extreme the left is. Maybe that’s about to change. 

The Republican National Committee is urging candidates to “go on offense” and calling on state legislatures to pass pro-life bills that “underscore the barbarism of the” left. 

Regardless, the GOP cannot avoid this fight. The pro-abortion left is going on offense, too, so those of us who value the sanctity of life had better be ready.