Democratic politicians give plenty of reasons for opposing late-term abortion, but usually they deflect to talking about the exceptional cases, such as rape, or babies with fatal abnormalities, or life-threatening pregnancies.
In his defense of late-term abortion though, Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is all business:
I can’t sit back and have that sitting out the same time I am traveling the globe recruiting businesses to Virginia,” McAuliffe said, adding that he is going on an important recruiting trip this weekend. “If there’s something that would be damaging toward business, and to our image around the country and the globe, I’ll veto it, you bet I will.
(That’s from the report by Alan Suderman of the Associated Press.)
Got that? Terry McAuliffe’s argument for not protecting viable babies is that it could harm his ability to lure a multinational corporation to open an office in McLean.
Matthew Walther at the Free Beacon noted the macabre nature of this argument, and pointed out that today a “moderate Democrat” is “someone who supports legalized infanticide out of fear of offending the CEO of Apartments.com.”
Timothy P. Carney, The Washington Examiner’s senior political columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]. His column appears Tuesday and Thursday nights on washingtonexaminer.com.
