It's a disgrace if you ask me and it's compounded by some on the right who wish to forfeit this issue and "move to the center"
Where, I suppose we all share this same, inhuman view of the unborn so we can focus on what's really important..
Like tax cuts for those who weren't aborted.
Great point JH.
What is it with these people? Are they genetically pusillanimous or is there NOTHING for them that matters besides winning? I suspect it's a little of both. If you won't fight for what you believe in for fear of losing, then you've already lost. Unless all you believe in is winning.
At the other extreme are those who prefer total defeat to anything less than total victory. I don't understand this attitude either. It strikes me as equally pusillanimous and ineffectual as the forfeit plan.
Incrementalism is not compromise. If we convince one expectant mother that abortion is wrong, if we save just one child out of millions, saving one life is infinitely better than saving zero lives.
If we can get a ban on partial birth abortion today, it seems to me we ought to take it. Does this mean we have compromised our beliefs or settled for a Pyrric victory? By no means. The struggle continues.
If next year we get Roe overturned, the struggle must continue. Because overturning Roe will not end abortion, it will simply restore the status quo ante with the legality decided by the states. If ten or twenty years from now, all 50 states make abortion illegal, the work continues.
The work must continue because the work never really ends. The work never ends because the real battle is not in the courts or the legislatures, but in the human heart. Change a law and some will find a way to circumvent it. Change a person's heart and a change in law is no longer needed.