For the half-century that Roe v. Wade reigned supreme, pro-life politicians could make a killing by campaigning on fantasies of abolishing the nearly 1 million abortions performed in the country per year while doing absolutely nothing in practice. Now that the movement got what it sorely wished…
For the half-century that Roe v. Wade reigned supreme, pro-life politicians could make a killing by campaigning on fantasies of abolishing the nearly 1 million abortions performed in the country per year while doing absolutely nothing in practice. Now that the movement got what it sorely wished for, in the form of the Dobbs v.
Former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley has emerged from the field of 2024 presidential hopefuls as one of the clearest-eyed on the abortion matter, willing to pour cold water on the pro-life fantasy that Republicans should pass a federal 15-week abortion ban — let alone that they could even do so."I'm not going to lie to the American people," Haley, also a former South Carolina governor, said on CBS over the weekend.
While conservatives ought to understand the logical conclusion of overturning Roe is that abortion is indeed a states' rights matter, perhaps the pragmatic argument against even teasing a federal abortion ban would be more convincing. For that, we can turn to, again, Nikki Haley in her landmark abortion speech delivered last month.
"Nationally, however, the task is much harder," Haley said of actionable pro-life restrictions."As a practical matter, you only achieve consensus when you have a House majority, a 60-vote Senate majority, and a president who are all in alignment. We are nowhere close to reaching that point. Today, there are around 45 pro-life senators, depending on how you count them. There haven't been 60 Republican senators since 1910. It could happen one day.
Haley's courage to tell the truth came not without consequences. The anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America immediately blasted Haley's position as"not acceptable," reiterating that a 15-week federal ban is the organization's line in the sand.But Haley isn't just right that such a promise is not"honest.
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