While wrapping up a recent segment with an Iowa pro-life advocate, CNN’s Dana Bash let her audience know that despite her guest’s contentions, she had never “talked to a Democrat who wants abortion-on-demand until time of birth.”
Just because Democrats haven’t talked to Bash about personally driving pregnant women down to Maryland’s all-trimester abortion clinic or Warren Hern’s busy Boulder shop — where he admits to performing late-term abortions on perfectly healthy women and fetuses — those places still exist. And they exist because Democrats, including the president, support legal abortion for any reason until the moment of birth.
Numerous states have passed laws that effectively allow unfettered late-term abortions. States like Colorado boast that these policies create “social, moral, and economic benefits.” Washington Democrats have also attempted on numerous occasions to “codify” such policy nationally. The Women’s Health Protection Act, for instance, would have made abortion legal over the first two trimesters and then allowed for the termination of a pregnancy when a healthcare provider (who doesn’t have to be a doctor) determines that a woman’s life is threatened (which no one opposes) or if they detect any mental distress (which can mean anything.) Only one Democrat voted against it.
Of course, rather than repeating what Democrats talk about, Bash could simply ask them to list specific legal limitations they support. I’ve yet to hear one. Every time “pro-choice” politician is challenged to provide a limit (which is rarely), they offer the same tedious answer about how ending a
