As Kansas Goes, So Goes the Country?
The Democrats complacently think so, but their woke zealotry will still cost them in the fall.
by George Neumayr
August 3, 2022, 11:42 PM
The defeat of a pro-life amendment in Kansas has confirmed the Democrats in their pro-abortion zealotry. As Kansas goes, they assume, so goes the nation. But is that true? No, it appears that at least half the states will adopt restrictions on abortion of one kind or another. Doesn’t that pose a political problem for a party that is resolutely and almost universally pro-abortion? Won’t the Democrats have to moderate in order to compete in those states? Since the Dobbs decision, they have shown no inclination to do so. If anything, their fervor for abortion has grown more fanatical.
The Democrats are overinterpreting the results in Kansas. It is a setback for pro-lifers, to be sure, but it is not that shocking. Kansas, after all, is a state that not so long ago elevated to its governorship Kathleen Sebelius, a darling of Planned Parenthood and architect of President Barack Obama’s contraceptive mandate. Insofar as their victory in Kansas makes the Democrats complacently and stubbornly pro-abortion, it will not help them in the fall elections. They whine endlessly about the GOP’s “extremism,” but it is their own lack of moderation that has put them in political peril.
The mood in the party is one of extreme intolerance toward any Democrat who betrays even the slightest ambivalence about abortion. President Joe Biden, who earlier in his career expressed misgivings about abortion absolutism, now encourages it. For many years, he supported the Hyde Amendment’s prohibition on taxpayer funding of abortion. But this week he announced that he wants taxpayers to pay for the out-of-state abortions of Medicaid patients. (READ MORE: Biden’s Unholy Crusade for Abortion)
In North Dakota, a pro-life Democrat managed to win a primary for a congressional seat. But some of his fellow Democrats favor disowning him. So it goes in many states, according to Politico, which says that “Democrats are turning on Democrats over abortion.” Democratic primaries have become referendums on which candidate is most intensely committed to abortion.
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