The first election cycle after the Dobbs decision is exposing just how extreme Democrats are when it comes to abortion. Long gone are the days when “safe, legal, and rare” was a talking point for the Left. Now, abortion is a right, an “act of self-love,” and a form of healthcare. Abortion should be celebrated and its stigma removed.
Democratic Party Senate candidates John Fetterman and Raphael Warnock both believe in no restrictions on abortion, even in the third trimester. Joining them is Stacey Abrams, election denier and Georgia gubernatorial candidate.
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During an appearance on MSNBC, Abrams said, “Having children is why you’re worried about your price for gas. It’s why you’re concerned about how much food costs. For women, this is not a reductive issue. You can’t divorce being forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy from the economic realities of having a child.”
To Abrams, abortion is a good thing. An unexpected or unwanted human being stands in conflict with someone else’s bank account. And finances matter more than the right to life.
Having and raising children is certainly a costly venture. But Abrams views the cost of children as equal to or greater than the inherent worth of their lives. If the financial toll seems insurmountable, she has no problem suggesting an unborn child be destroyed. In her mind, a child is akin to another bill. Choose which one you can do without, and get rid of it. Life is reduced to another line item in the monthly budget.
To those who are pro-life, this honesty and flippancy is horrific. But these rationalizations are becoming the norm in the Democratic Party. And even voters notice. Recent polling on the issue published by National Review shows voters view Democratic Party beliefs on abortion to be more extreme than Republican Party views. And by a considerable margin.
“The poll of 1,000 voters … presented respondents with two options: ‘allowing abortions up until 9 months of pregnancy for any reason,’ or ‘restricting abortions to only in cases of rape, incest, and when the life of the mother is in danger.’ When asked which of the two was ‘more extreme,’ 57 percent of respondents chose ‘allowing abortions up until 9 months of pregnancy for any reason,’ as opposed to just 29 percent who chose ‘restricting abortions to only in cases of rape, incest, and when the life of the mother is in danger.'”
This type of polling ahead of the midterm elections is perhaps what Democrats could not foresee when the Dobbs decision was handed down. But no matter what the polls show, the extreme side of the abortion debate will always be the one that advocates ending a life. The side that desires both human beings to come out of pregnancy alive is not extreme. These are the facts despite Democratic Party campaigns, talking points, punditry, or opinion columns. Life is always to be treasured. Targeting unborn life for destruction is always wrong.
Abrams is a losing gubernatorial candidate, election denier, and fearmonger. In her statements on MSNBC, she places the onus on the unborn for daring to exist. There is nothing quite so extreme — and frankly, evil — as that. Her message is this: Life would be better for women and their bank accounts if the human beings growing in their wombs didn’t exist. She treats women as being so weak and incapable that only abortion can save them and their futures. Babies deserve better than to be reduced to expendable annoyances.
Democratic candidates such as Abrams, Fetterman, and Warnock desperately want voters to believe they stand on the side of equality. They want voters to view them as champions for the underdog. With their own words and actions, they reveal their true motives. Since they are representatives of and spokespeople for the Democratic Party, there should be absolutely no confusion. Democrats, not Republicans, are the party of abortion extremism.
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Kimberly Ross (@SouthernKeeks) is a contributor to the Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential blog and a columnist at Arc Digital.
