abortion
September 16, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Minnesota’s Democrats have been around the bend for a while, but not many people noticed until Kamala Harris (or someone) selected Governor Tim Walz as the Democrats’ vice presidential nominee. Now national attention has focused, among other things, on the “trans refuge” bill that the Democrats passed in the 2023 legislative session, and Tim Walz signed into law. The intent of the bill was to make Minnesota a “trans refuge”
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September 14, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Pro-abortion fanatics are selling merchandise that celebrates the burning of pregnancy clinics: The Minnesota Abortion Action Committee (MNAAC) is selling merchandise featuring an image of a burning pregnancy resource center. “The Christian right is wrong,” the merchandise reads, with a building labeled “Anti-abortion center” in flames. Minnesota is a hotbed of pro-abortion extremism, as our legislature has now legalized abortion up to and including the moment of birth. Many observers
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September 12, 2024 — Scott Johnson
The Roman poet Juvenal famously asked in Satires VI: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (“Who will guard the guardians themselves?”) A variant applies to the establishment media: Who will fact-check the fact-checkers? We saw the problem on display during the debate between President Trump and Vice President Harris hosted by ABC News this week. Moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis repeatedly “fact-checked” Trump while letting Harris skate. To take one example,
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August 26, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Over on Twitter/X, Seth Dillon, one of the proprietors of the indispensable Babylon Bee, expresses the frustration and dismay of many in the Pro-Life community about Trump’s stance against national abortion legislation: When considering whether an issue should be decided by individual states or whether it should be universally prohibited, the key question is whether the issue involves fundamental human rights. At one point, slavery was left to the states;
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June 5, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Polls show the Democrats losing on the economy, as well as on the border, crime, foreign policy and just about everything else. But they have one ace in the hole: abortion. Apparently the most popular thing a politician can stand for in today’s America is killing unborn babies. Or not necessarily unborn: in Minnesota, where I live, you can kill babies in all cases up to and including the moment
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April 10, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The Biden re-election campaign should be dead in the water. Inflation is surging again, wokeness is deeply unpopular with most Americans, bills are beginning to come due for the Left’s “green” initiatives, and, most of all, Biden himself is so far gone in dementia as to be dysfunctional. How can he possibly win in November? By running on abortion. We saw it in many areas of the country in 2022.
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April 2, 2024 — John Hinderaker
This is how Kamala Harris demagogues the abortion issue, which Democrats consider their lifeline to political survival: In America, 1 in 3 women of reproductive age live in a state with an abortion ban in effect. This is a direct result of Donald Trump’s Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. He is the architect of this health care crisis. — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) March 30, 2024 “Donald Trump’s Supreme Court”?
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March 22, 2024 — John Hinderaker
It was Scott who first referred to the sacramental view of abortion, some years ago now. Abortion (much like slavery over the course of the 19th century) went from being a regrettable but sometimes unavoidable evil to being a positive good–indeed, these days, the noblest good to which political life can aspire. To see this perverse attitude in full flower, you almost have to live in Minnesota. Minnesota’s lieutenant governor,
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January 22, 2024 — John Hinderaker
In the 2022 off-year election, nearly everyone expected Republicans to make big gains in Washington. But they didn’t: Democrats held the Senate and Republicans eked out a bare House majority. Meanwhile, gains in state elections were muted. In Minnesota, where I live, GOP hopes were dashed as the Democrats held the House, took the Senate, and won all the constitutional offices from the governor on down. Why these disappointments? The
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November 29, 2023 — Steven Hayward
The aftermath of the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade has concentrated chiefly on its political effects, but has it reduced the number of abortions or increased the birth rate? Abortion with few or no limits remains available in most states, and as most abortions occur early in a pregnancy even those states that have adopted a 15-week ban should not be expected to see significant changes. Is anyone trying
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October 2, 2023 — Scott Johnson
California Governor Gavin Newsom promised to appoint a black woman to replace the late Dianne Feinstein in the Senate, so you know this is a man who has his priorities in order. Politico reveals that Newsom will appoint Laphonza Butler to fill Feinstein’s seat. Butler apparently does not reside in California — Politico reports that she is registered to vote in Maryland. However, Butler owns a home in California. When
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September 15, 2023 — John Hinderaker
I wrote here and here about Susanna Gibson, a Democratic candidate for the Virginia House who, it turns out, live-streamed sex with her husband on the porn site Chaturbate, for money. One might think that this revelation would doom a legislative campaign, but no: Gibson has gone on offense, and the Associated Press reports that she is gaining support, especially among feminists: A Democratic Virginia legislative candidate whose race was
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August 24, 2023 — John Hinderaker
As usual, opinions on last night’s debate are all over the lot. People always react differently to such events. But there is such a thing as a fact, and Al Franken got one badly wrong, while throwing in his trademark crudeness. This came after Ron DeSantis went after the Democrats’ extremism on abortion. Via Breitbart: No one is trying to allow abortions right up to birth. You asshole, DeSantis. #GOPDebate
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June 30, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Rasmussen has some interesting data on that question. First, the good news: most people agree with the Dobbs decision: One year after the Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, so that each state can now determine its own laws regarding abortion, a majority of voters approve the decision. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 52% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of the
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April 30, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sat down with James Taranto and David Rivkin for the Wall Street Journal weekend column “Justice Alito: ‘This made us targets of assassination.” As the Journal loves to do on its opinion pages, the column breaks news. Behind the Journal’s paywall, the whole thing is worth reading. Here are the quotes I think are particularly worth pulling: • “I personally have a pretty good idea
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March 4, 2023 — John Hinderaker
Here in Minnesota, the DFL party is using its slim legislative majorities–one vote in the Senate–to enact a radical agenda. The new legislature’s first act was to adopt a sweeping abortion law that legalizes abortion up to and including the moment of birth. Many observers thought that the party’s leaders had overreached. Voters, many thought, couldn’t possibly have intended such radical legislation. So my organization included a question on abortion
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February 1, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Minneapolis’s Star Tribune illustrates how the major daily newspaper of a metropolitan area can contribute to its decline. The owner of the newspaper has a high tolerance for mediocrity and the local news reads like public relations for Minnesota’s DFL. Today’s case in point is Briana Bierschbach’s page-one story on the new abortion law Democrats rammed through the legislature in record time: “Gov. Tim Walz signs law strengthening abortion rights
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