Media pressure from newly announced presidential candidate Rand Paul has sent DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz to CNN, Fox News and other outlets to argue on behalf of her party that there should be essentially no restrictions on abortion. “Period. End of story.”
Fox News senior political news analyst Brit Hume recommends that his followers visit The Federalist today in order to meet Colorado’s “real abortion extremists.”
Meet The Real Abortion Extremists: http://t.co/nQdbqKf4GP
— Brit Hume (@brithume) April 16, 2015
Who are these extremists? Reporter David Harsanyi notes that they are Colorado Senate Democrats who oppose a fetal homicide bill introduced this week by Republicans that would enable prosecutors to file murder charges when an unborn baby is killed against the mother’s wishes. The bill was inspired by the recent case in which a seven-month pregnant woman was left for dead after an attacker cut her baby out of her womb. The baby did not survive, but the district attorney could not file murder charges, because the coroner determined the baby was never “alive.”
Harsanyi makes two cogent points. Democrats cannot support the bill because, first, it humanizes the unborn, and second, it would set up “a host of uncomfortable philosophical questions and legal precedents” suggesting that life in the womb is worthy of protection.
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@brithume The failure of the GOP to pursue this narrative in 2012
was maddening. Obamas' major supporters of elective late term
abortion.— gia scarlett (@giatny) April 16, 2015
@brithume I think the time is now, Rand Paul called out DWS, and the media finally asked her a question, and she spun and spun
— Mia (@Truth1151) April 16, 2015
@brithume I wish I had written this. Intellectual dishonesty leads to absurd and heinous outcomes.
— Dbright21 (@Dbright21) April 16, 2015
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