The Facts of Life
The debate over abortion reveals who the intolerant really are.
Now that Georgia’s RICO (Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) statutes have been thoroughly politicized, it’s easy to forget the debasement of the law didn’t always start with Donald Trump. RICO was first weaponized to go after that other gang of organized crime figures disguising themselves as priests and nuns—pro-lifers.1
And like the case against ‘The Don,’ every utterance, display or protest wasn’t an exercise in free speech, but another exhibit in Hillary Clinton’s ‘vast right-wing conspiracy.’ Welcome to Huxley’s Brave New World.2
The establishment media loves to blame abortion for the GOP’s problems. But letting the other side define the issue is the surest road to defeat. Especially when it describes every reasonable limitation on abortion as a complete ‘ban,’ when in fact, none are. Florida’s Heartbeat Protection Act has exceptions for rape, incest, human trafficking and, naturally, maternal health.3
There is nothing in the law that would prevent the use of the ‘morning after’ pill. The FDA’s desperate rush to relax dispensing protocol for other types of ‘medication abortions’ (that, according to the profiteers at Planned Parenthood, cause “the pregnancy tissue” to be ejected) was a cynical head fake.4
What the Florida law—and those in other states—does not condone is the cavalier treatment of another human life by using late-term abortion as birth control.
Nevertheless, access to abortion since the Dobbs ruling has grown—proving that a) Democrats lied for decades that overturning Roe v Wade would end the practice, and b) they have become so extreme on the issue that they’ve rejected Roe’s modest recognition of life as ‘viability’ in the womb.5