Abortion

The rabidly partisan Huffington Post ran the headline that Amy Coney Barrett “cracks joke about abortion protesters.” Heavens, doesn’t she know that’s not allowed? Alas another example of progressive online click bait to roil their serfs. What she actually said to a supportive conservative audience was “It’s nice to have a lot of noise made not by protesters outside my house.”  Wow, how offensive. But it is yet another example of how Republicans have to realize by now that the abortion issue is a loser, as our privileged public school educated heathens, devoid of religious affiliation and ignorant of biology, come of age and are able to vote. The most cynical among us will shrug our shoulders and declare that abortion is only practiced by democrats and serves to cull their own herd. But the more logical option is to divorce the issue from the party completely and, like the Supreme Court, turn the issue not only back to the states, but back to the people. Studies have shown that Americans are not as radical on the abortion issue as the media would like you to believe, with most supporting very early termination of pregnancy, certainly not beyond the first trimester. So why not throw up our hands and put it on the ballot?  A simple multiple choice question, check one of the following options:  1. I do not support abortion, 2. I support abortion up to the 15th week of gestation, 3. Up to 24 weeks, or 4. Up to the moment of birth. Each state can have its own ballot referendum. The result is the result, regardless of party affiliation. Isn’t this an example of the democracy the left claims to defend? Both parties are divorced from the issue and the disgruntled have only their fellow citizens to blame. The media can go wild in the months leading up to the vote, one side trying to educate and the other trying to mislead. Pick your side. But the real result will be the elimination of that single issue voter, those ideologues that reflexively vote for the pro-choice candidate regardless of their stance on other issues far more important to the health of our nation. It’s those voters that give us the cognitively impaired in the Senate. Yeah, Pennsylvania, I’m talking to you.  And Amy Coney Barrett may finally have some peace at home.