Abortion Bans: Let’s Have the Fight

Since last week, when Alabama joined several other states — Georgia, Mississippi, and Ohio among them — in passing a bill seeking to greatly restrict legal abortions within its borders, the Left has gone almost completely berserk in protest.

This wasn’t a surprise, since to the Left abortion is akin to a religious sacrament and extremism in support of ending the lives of the unborn is no longer a vice (nor moderation a virtue) to them. When Planned Parenthood is exposed as running an underground marketplace for the chopped-up remains of aborted babies and the response is to kill, or at least arrest, the messenger, when a movie telling the true story of a Planned Parenthood manager who had a crisis of confidence surrounding the organization’s practices and became pro-life has to be deleted from theatres, when activists are running free on social media with hashtags like #ShoutYourAbortion… you would expect a normal political movement to hustle to rein itself in for fear of losing the high ground with the American people.

The pro-abort Left has done none of this. Instead, it celebrated a bill in New York that would functionally legalize abortion all the way through pregnancy — with that state’s governor lighting the Freedom Tower pink in tribute. And in Virginia a Democrat legislator, with the backing of that state’s horrifically inappropriate governor, brought a bill which would have essentially legalized infanticide. That one, thankfully, did not pass.

The public is slowly growing more pro-life, polls show. Younger Americans are more pro-life than their parents. Despite hundreds of thousands of abortions per year it looks like the public is moving away from the practice — partially because of technology.

Forty years ago there was no ability for a pregnant mother to see her baby in the womb in the kind of detail modern sonograms can offer. There was not the ability to detect a fetal heartbeat in the detail available today. By the beginning of the second trimester it’s difficult to continue pushing the line that what’s in the womb isn’t a human being. And the time at which a fetus can be viable outside the womb is becoming earlier and earlier due to medical technology. Some day soon there will be no justification at all for aborting an unborn baby; not when medical science can remove him or her from the womb and preserve him or her for life apart from the biological mother.