One thing you can say about the aftermath of the Supreme Court's decision to not block Texas' law protecting the lives of unborn children is that it has been absolutely clarifying and revealing to see exactly how craven the abortion enthusiasts on the Left really are.
That's why it's disappointing to see several conservative commentators wringing their hands and worrying over the potentially damaging political fall-out for Republicans as a result of the Texas law.
Over at the Washington Free Beacon (a terrific publication), Founding Editor Matthew Continetti suggests that all this talk about saving babies' lives might end up benefitting the political aspirations of Joe Biden and his pro-abortion political party.
The president, the vice president, Democrats in Congress, progressive activists, and their allies in the media denounced the Texas law with incredible speed. Why? Not just because they are passionate defenders of abortion. Because they sense a political opportunity. Biden said that he would "launch a whole-of-government effort to respond to this [i.e., the Court's] decision." Nancy Pelosi said that she would bring to the floor the "Women's Health Protection Act," which would eliminate practically all restrictions on abortion nationwide. Former acting solicitor general and al Qaeda lawyer Neal Katyal tweeted that Senate Democrats should break the filibuster to codify abortion rights. The disaster in Afghanistan vanished from the front pages. Stories on the Texas bill appeared instead.
Continetti is correct in stating that Biden and his party lept at the opportunity to denounce these restrictions against abortion. In fact, they've never hesitated at the opportunity to protect the gruesome industry that extinguishes millions of black and brown babies in the womb. Their condemnation of the Texas law is not unique in this respect. Democrats do whatever they must to please their benefactors, whether it's the public-employee labor unions, trial lawyers, or the multi-million dollar abortion industry. If Democrats don't defend them, the money stops flowing.
Continetti is correct in pointing out that polls suggest that most Americans support Roe v. Wade, and the Texas law will be depicted by the media and Democrats as an attack on the 50-year-old Supreme Court ruling. But, if Republicans are basing their pro-life positions on what the latest poll results show, they've already lost.
I know it may be naive to suggest that a position on the sanctity of an unborn, innocent life should be based on principle and not politics, but it should. If you're pro-life, you need to be pro-life even if it's unpopular. If Republican voters suffer the vitriol and contempt of the media, pop culture, and academia on an ongoing basis, the least a Republican politician can do is withstand some negative poll numbers after enjoying our support over the past several decades.
If Republicans can't deftly push back on tough questions from reporters and snide comments from late show comedians about the Texas law, they don't deserve to represent you in the first place.
Let me humbly suggest a response for Republicans to raise when they are challenged about their support of the Texas law: "Am I concerned the law might lead to the overturning of Roe v. Wade? No, I'm not concerned... I'm enthusiastically optimistic it will lead to overturning Roe! My party has opposed Roe since Ronald Reagan, and we have won six presidential elections, not to mention the majority of governor's seats and the majority of state legislatures on the issue since 1980."
Furthermore, Republicans have plenty of examples of Democrats' craven support for abortion that are more abhorrent and despicable than anything Jimmy Kimmel or Bette Midler might raise about Texas.
Republicans should point out that Democrats and liberal columnists are openly lamenting the inability to extinguish the lives of unborn children with Down syndrome and other disabilities that are detected in pre-natal tests that have become nothing more than abortion screening procedures.
Perhaps Republicans should go on the offensive and spend some time shining a light on the ableists on the Left advocating for a pre-birth genocide against the intellectually disabled. Their dystopian future where imperfect babies are violently removed from the womb lest they become a burdensome inconvenience for their upwardly mobile parents' lifestyle should make most voters with a moral conscience wretch.
Other than the Democrats, the leading voice opposing the law is from the Satanic Temple in Texas. If Republicans can't deflect some political heat on the Texas law by pointing out that Democrats are literally supported by Satan in their pro-abortion position, they have no business in politics in the first place.
Pundits like Continetti shouldn't fear the Texas law's political fallout when evaluating Republicans' chances in upcoming elections. The fact is, science and public opinion are on the side of life. As technology improves and reveals that the unborn human being in question is not the "clump of cells" we were all told it was in 1973, and as premature babies can survive and eventually thrive outside the womb as early as 21 weeks into a mother's pregnancy, the tide of public opinion will continue to move away from the abortion-on-demand extremism of the Democrats.
Republicans have a bigger worry about the abortion issue moving forward. The real political crisis would be if the Democrats miraculously start to soften their ghoulish position. If Democrats start to show tolerance for pro-life candidates and start allowing for some diversity of thought on the topic within their ranks, Republicans would be in trouble.
How many times have we heard that Republicans would do so well if they just dropped that anti-woman abortion position? Why is it we never hear the opposite said of the Democrats? Imagine if Democrats ran a pro-life candidate for governor in Texas.
Trust me, if Republicans abandon their support of pro-life laws like this one in Texas, they will show that their support of the pro-life movement has been nothing but cynical lip service, and they will lose their base. And they'll deserve it.
