Abortion isn’t merely a big issue for Democrats. Abortion is the central organizing principle of today’s Democratic Party.
Legalizing, subsidizing, and spreading abortion is a cause inextricable from the Democratic Party. At times, the Democratic Party looks like an arm of the abortion lobby.
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I wrote an article this past weekend on how the Biden Justice Department became the prosecutorial arm of the National Abortion Federation. I wrote, “There may be no relationship more intimate in all of Washington than the affair between the Democratic Party and the abortion lobby. Democrats’ one non-negotiable stance is their defense of abortion.”
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My article focused on the prosecution of pro-lifers at the request of the abortion lobby, but I wanted to flesh out how broad the connection is between the lobby and Democrats.
Here are some points:
- Democrats are absolutists on abortion. You will not find a Democratic presidential or Senate candidate, or a House leader, who is willing to tolerate any limits on abortion in any case.
- There are no pro-life Democrats in Washington at all. The last one, former Illinois Rep. Dan Lipinski, was knocked out in the 2020 primary.
- When Democratic governors get to fill Senate vacancies, they have twice in recent years chosen abortion lobbyists.
- Abortion groups make up a huge portion of the Democratic fundraising base. For instance, EMILYs List PAC has averaged about $70 million over the past three election cycles. For comparison, that’s quadruple the spending by the National Rifle Association’s PAC.
- Subsidizing Planned Parenthood with taxpayer money is one of the Democrats’ chief crusades. In the 2011 budget showdown, it was Barack Obama’s one non-negotiable item.
- To keep abortion legal is the main reason they want to expand the court.
It’s possible to be a tax-cutting Democrat, a pro-war Democrat, an immigration-restrictionist Democrat, and these days, Democrats are allowed to oppose boys in girls’ sports. But a pro-life Democrat, in Washington, would be a contradiction in terms.
