Is Killing Unborn Babies a Winning Issue for Democrats?

            Democrats are doing their best to keep abortion in the fore front of the minds of their voters. President Joe Biden announced today that he would send a bill to Congress to codify Roe v. Wade if Democrats keep the House and the Senate in November. Gilliam Richards wrote the following about Biden’s announcement. 

      

Biden remarked at the Democrat National Committee event this Tuesday that the Supreme Court’s June 24 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision violated women’s’ “fundamental right” to abortion. “Fifty years of constitutional precedent was overturned,” Biden said of the Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion on-demand in all 50 states.  

“We’re only 22 days away from the most consequential election in history… in recent history at least,” Biden said at the event, hosted in Washington, D.C.

Biden cited Republicans’ efforts, such as those of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, to ban abortion nationwide. “If such a bill were to pass in the next several years, I’ll veto it,” Biden said to a cheering crowd.

 

            Biden was not the only Democrat making statements today. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) could not be left out of the action, so he released the following statement after Biden spoke:

The choice for America’s future is clear as day: elect more MAGA Republicans if you want to see a nationwide ban on abortion; if you want to see doctors and women arrested; if you want to see no exceptions for rape or incest. Elect more pro-choice Democrats to save Roe and protect a woman’s right to make their own decisions about their health and their body.

 

            Not to be outdone by the President and the Senate Majority Leader, the Department of Justice changed another pro-life activist with violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE Act). According to Mary Margaret Olohan, this activist is part of the pro-life group that found the aborted bodies of preemie-sized babies outside an abortion clinic in Washington, D.C. Olohan wrote the following:

 

A D.C. federal grand jury’s two-count superseding indictment charged 25-year-old Herb Geraghty with conspiracy against rights and FACE Act offenses for blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic in October 2020, the Justice Department said in a release. The pro-life activists had blockaded the entrance to the abortion clinic, the D.C.-based Washington Surgi-Clinic, to “prevent women from entering the clinic to murder their children.”

“This is a clear abuse of power and a sign that the Biden administration is using the Department of Justice to attack political targets—particularly those of us who believe in the right to life for all human beings,” Geraghty, a member of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, told The Daily Signal.

Geraghty has “not yet” been arrested, the activist said, adding: “I am hoping they let me self-surrender, but no confirmation either way yet.”

A federal grand jury had returned an indictment on March 24 alleging that Lauren Handy, Jonathan Darnel, Jay Smith, Paulette Harlow, Jean Marshall, John Hinshaw, Heather Idoni, William Goodman, and Joan Bell were “engaged in a conspiracy to create a blockade” at Washington Surgi-Clinic.

 

            The Supreme Court in overturning Roe v. Wade could not find any mention of abortion or the right to abortion in the Constitution, so they sent the issue back to the States. Does not Biden understand the ramifications of the ruling? Apparently not!

            Conservatives were quick to jump into the abortion fray today. March for Life President Jeanne Mancini provided a prepared statement saying the following: “President Biden’s desperate attempt to sway voters by pushing painful abortions is clear evidence of how out of touch he is. Ninety percent of Americans reject Biden’s view that abortion should be legal up until birth for any reason – paid for by taxpayers.”

            Mancini was off by 9% according to polls. A May 2022 poll showed that 17% of Americans think abortions should be legal at any point in a pregnancy, and a Pew Research Poll during the same month found 19% of Americans think abortion should be legal in all cases.

            Mancini was not the only one making pro-life statements. Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America stated the following:

Doubling down on an extreme agenda of abortion on demand until birth won’t stop Democrats form losing Congress, even with the abortion industry spending record sums to elect them. Biden’s party is on the wrong side and stunningly out of touch. Clear majorities of Americans … support commonsense limits on abortion, including a minimum federal standard to stop brutal late-term abortions when unborn babies feel pain.

            Dannenfelser encouraged pro-life Republicans to continue their efforts to expose the extreme stance that Democrats have on abortion. “The stakes of the midterm elections could not be higher. President Biden is making clear today that if Democrats control Congress in 2023, they will destroy the filibuster and pass their Abortion on Demand Until Birth Act to mandate abortion on demand in all 50 states.”