Ed Morrissey:
“Everyone”? Well, not exactly, but only if you think for more than a few seconds about human biology and the consequences of abortion. The White House put out this statementtoday hailing Roe v Wade on its 41st anniversary:
Statement by President Obama on 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade: pic.twitter.com/0BZVyZ4ZYQ
— Kori Schulman (@ks44) January 22, 2014
Today, as we reflect on the 41st anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade, we recommit ourselves to the decision’s guiding principle: that every woman should be able to make her own choices about her body and her health. We reaffirm our steadfast commitment to protecting a woman’s access to safe, affordable health care and her constitutional right to privacy, including the right to reproductive freedom. And we resolve to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies, support maternal and child health, and continue to build safe and healthy communities for all our children. Because this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams.
I beg to differ on behalf of the 55 million whose opportunities for freedom and dreams got sucked out existence when the same thing happened to them. The core value of the freedom to life was denied those millions of victims. Abortion is literally the antithesis of that final sentence, and a horrid parody of reality for “all our children.”
The Hill reports that Republicans plan to make this an issue for the midterms:
On Tuesday, CNN reported that some members of the GOP plan to introduce a resolution at this week’s meeting of the Republican National Committee encouraging Republican candidates to discuss abortion openly.
“The Republican National Committee urges all Republican pro-life candidates, consultants, and other national Republican Political Action Committees to reject a strategy of silence on the abortion issue when candidates are attacked with ‘war on women’ rhetoric,” the resolution reads.
Rep. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) also noted the anniversary in a fundraising email to supporters on Wednesday.
“I am proud to have fought (and will continue fighting) for pro-life legislation in Congress. However, like most of the legislation my fellow conservative House members and I pass, the U.S. Senate blocks those bills from becoming law,” Cotton, who is challenging Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark), wrote. “This is just another reason we need to take back the Senate from Harry Reid and President Obama’s other close allies.”
That strategy requires political candidates who can discuss the subject intelligently.
Young people are the newest pro-life group.
Why?
They are the ones suffering for lack of brothers, sisters, potential marriage mates, friends.
They are the ones left with a demographic nightmare of too many older folks retiring, not enough people working.
In China they are suffering even worse because they went with a mandatory one-child policy.
In 2005 there were 32 million more males than females under the age of 20 in China.
Everyone except the diced baby