The irony here is that there are a lot of Republicans who like to imply that those of us who are #prolife but who are now voting for Democrats aren’t really pro-life.
But meanwhile its these some of these insincere Republican politicians who are scrubbing their web sites.
A lot of these guys don’t really care about the issue of abortion one way or the other. They’ve never really thought about it at any level of depth. They espoused extreme positions (no exceptions for anything) because they thought that’s what people wanted to hear.
And now they change their positions because they think that’s what people want to hear.
There are a lot of sincere pro-life people who actually care about both women and babies.
And a lot of insincere politicians who will alternately say or unsay anything to try to grab power.
There is no true Pro-Life Party, guys. There are some politicians who have sincere convictions. But there are many who really are just trying to play a character they don’t know or understand.
Truth be told, is that a good number of these supposedly pro-life politicians would personally abort a baby right now, themselves, if they thought it would win them the majority. They don’t have real convictions. Either way.
You think McConnell and McCarthy wouldn’t? Sorry, kid.
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Quick note to pro-life folks who think that pro-lifers can’t vote for Democrats or that the GOP is supposedly a pro-life party:
Those of us who are pro-life and now voting for Dems aren’t the ones trying to erase anything we ever said about abortion.
Some GOP politicians are.
My opinions on the sanctity of human life have not changed one bit. I am focused though on how to help people.
Why do so many people think that abortion is their best option?
How can we address those reasons?
What are we going to do to help all the babies who are on the way?
If you prevent a person who doesn’t want to get pregnant from getting pregnant, including through contraceptives, you’ve in many cases prevented an abortion.
If we make it easier for people having hard times to get the help they need, they may choose other options.
If you look at any poll that breaks out voters by education level, especially white voters, you'll see a gigantic gulf between how those with and without degrees view the Democratic Party, the GOP and the President.
(I say especially white voters because most pollsters don't break it out for other groups. And also because for most nonwhite voters, education is not as significant of a delimiter. Black voters tend to disapprove of the GOP regardless of their education level).
In 2005, 31 of the 199 House Democrats (16%) objected to the counting of Ohio’s electors. The objection was agreed to by 1 of the 44 Democratic Senators (Barbara Boxer).
That was wrong. Bush won the 2004 election, albeit by one state.
In 2005, a relatively small percentage of the Democratic House Caucus (16%) voted to object to the results of a single state, Ohio. Which was the single deciding factor for the 2004 election.
I voted for Bush and I would have been upset had I heard about this. But I didn’t even know that this had happened until 2021 when Republicans objected to Biden’s win. John Kerry himself had conceded within hours of the polls closing. The election was long over.
So it’s been 9 weeks since Roe v Wade was overturned. Nearly a quarter of a 38-week human pregnancy.
My question is, what, if anything, have states done to prepare to help support the large number of additional human lives that are coming our way?
Pro-life is, in my view, more than being against abortion. It’s being in favor of life.
But life costs money. Life requires resources. And a lot of people who bring children into the world, often unintentionally, don’t have it.
So what are we doing? Time is ticking.
A lot of the additional babies who are going to be born are going to have needs. In some cases their parents will be able to provide them. But in many cases they won’t.
“Tough luck, good luck with life, kid” is not my idea of a true pro-life attitude.
In 2020 and 2021, Donald Trump became the first President in American history to lose re-election and then spend his remaining days in office trying to overturn the election he lost and stay in office in defiance of the people.
He committed many crimes in the course of that.
But then, while being investigated for those crimes, he goes and commits AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT SET OF CRIMES by refusing to return highly sensitive National Security secrets which he has no right to possess and which he had laying around in storage in his public golf resort.
He commits the greatest crime ever committed by an American President by trying to overturn an election. And before that even gets straightened out, he does an entirely different serious set of crimes.