Commitment to the sacrament of abortion has become a benchmark in the Democratic Party. Colorado Democrats want everyone to know just how enthusiastic the state is about keeping the killing of unborn children legal.
Colorado has no limits on abortion, but that apparently is not good enough. Colorado Democrats are advancing a bill to codify its lack of abortion restrictions and to prevent unborn children from having independent rights under state law. According to Axios, the bill is “a first step toward asking Colorado voters to approve a constitutional protection on the 2024 ballot.”
The gruesome nature of abortion politics hasn’t stopped it from being a winner in increasingly liberal Colorado. Voters in 2020 rejected a statewide referendum that would ban abortion after 22 weeks. But Democrats have more confidence that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade than Republicans do, so they are rushing to enshrine their abortion fanaticism into law. Abortion, legal up to birth with no questions asked, is their only acceptable outcome.
That’s why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have been pushing to eliminate nearly all abortion restrictions. Schumer’s state of New York did exactly that, with state leaders celebrating after lifting late-term abortion restrictions.
“Safe, legal, and rare,” or lighting up Freedom Tower’s spire in pink to celebrate late-term abortion on demand? Pick one. https://t.co/jIzAzKXhVF
— Alexandra DeSanctis Marr (@xan_desanctis) January 23, 2019
Colorado wants to join the party because this is where the Democratic Party stands now on abortion. It is to be celebrated, unrestricted, and the benchmark by which Democrats are to be judged. That’s the only reason Democrats lined up against one of their own, Rep. Dan Lipinski, in the 2020 Democratic primaries in Illinois. Lipinski was as liberal as they come, but he was pro-life. So he got the boot.
Colorado probably will enshrine legal abortion up to birth, and Colorado Democrats will take a victory lap. It will be a grotesque display in favor of grotesque politics, and it should serve as a reminder to Republicans just how important this issue is. This is a winning issue for the GOP, and, more importantly, it is an issue that needs to be won.
