As Democratic politicians and their allies continue their nationwide panic over the future of abortion in the courts, pro-life ballot propositions in Colorado and Louisiana show how entrenched the fabricated right to abortion is in American politics.
Colorado is one of the seven states that does not ban abortion past any given point in pregnancy. Proposition 115 looks to rectify that, taking the modest step of imposing a ban on abortion at 22 weeks of pregnancy. Polls have the proposition consistently down, but well within striking distance, even in a state that continues to lurch to the left.
Meanwhile, Louisiana is also proposing a modest change, in the form of a constitutional amendment that clarifies that nothing in the state’s constitution “shall be construed to secure or protect a right to abortion or require the funding of abortion.” The amendment was inspired last year by the Kansas Supreme Court fabricating a right to abortion from their state’s constitutional promise of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Louisiana’s amendment was co-sponsored by State Sen. Katrina Jackson and is endorsed by Gov. John Bel Edwards, both pro-life Democrats. Louisiana is a state that knows from experience how the courts will twist constitutions to protect abortion: Chief Justice John Roberts helped Supreme Court liberals carve out special medical exemptions by striking down a Louisiana law in July.
For all the fearmongering over how Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation to the Supreme Court would end legalized abortion in the United States (as we have been told about Republican nominated justices for two generations), abortion remains the one issue consistently plucked out of the hands of legislators by the courts.
Even these modest proposals have their opposition, with the American Civil Liberties Union leading the parade of left-wing activist groups. For these groups, Roe v. Wade is an untouchable doctrine, and abortion is a right more central to the American experiment than the First or Second Amendments.
Should Colorado and Louisiana voters approve their respective propositions, it would be yet another win for a pro-life movement that has been playing a rigged legal game since 1973. And pro-abortion activists will continue to spread their doomsday prophecy, all while the courts continue to rewrite the laws to protect their hobby horse issue.
