The list of reasons I could never be a Democrat grows by the day. But if I had to choose just one issue that has prevented such an ill-chosen and indefensible association, it would be abortion. No issue better exposes the illogic, immorality, and delusion of the Democratic Party than the issue of abortion.
Democrats increasingly have called for the abolishment of capital punishment. Beto O’Rourke, for example, has said he opposes the death penalty “on moral grounds.” California Governor Gavin Newsom has said, “the intentional killing of another person is wrong.”
But while Democrats proclaim that the federal government should not be involved in taking the lives of guilty murderers, Democrats simultaneously demand that the federal government should be involved in taking the lives of innocent, unborn babies—via federally subsidized abortions.
The lives of murderers are precious. Taking their lives is immoral and wrong. But the lives of innocent unborn children are unimportant. The “intentional killing” of the unborn is both moral and a right.
To justify such obvious and undeniable illogic, Democrats have convinced themselves that “babies are not babies until they are born.” This is what former NPR Standards and Practices editor Mark Memmott wrote in his “guidance reminder” memo, in which he instructed employees to avoid using terms like “unborn,” because it “implies that there is a baby inside a pregnant woman, not a fetus.”