What is it about the left that they are so addicted to abortion?
For all the shrieking, wailing, sobbing and outright bullshit, it’s easy to overlook that this week’s US election disproved the left’s big scare campaign on abortion.
Voters of Missouri paved the way to undo one of the abortion bans most restrictive in the United States, in one of the seven victories for defenders of abortion rights, while Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota they rejected similar constitutional amendments and would maintain the current prohibitions.
The amendments on abortion rights. They were also approved in Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, and Montana. Nevada voters also approved an amendment, but will have to approve it again in 2026 for it to take effect. Another that prohibits discrimination based on the “outcome of pregnancy” prevailed in New York.
Which, whatever your view on abortion, is how it should have been all along.
This was, in fact, the whole point of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v Jackson ruling: it was never an ‘abortion ban’.
Rather, it was the recognition that Roe v Wade was an appallingly bad ruling. The 1973 judges weren’t interpreting the law, they were making it up out of nothing. This singularly bad ruling is what set the stage for decades of bitter fights over abortion.
By circumventing the democratic process, ruling instead by judicial fiat, the Supreme Court in 1973 made the weirdly American fight over abortion into an all-consuming obsession.
It used to be a peculiarly ‘American’ obsession, but as the recent Queensland state election showed, a desperate left are not above exploiting stupid fear campaigns here in Australia. And left-wing women will buy it.
But for all the creepy obsessing by the left, the democratic system is working exactly as it should have 50 years ago.
In the first presidential election since the US Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion, former President Donald Trump, who touted during the campaign he “was able to kill Roe v Wade,” won a second term in the White House. Simultaneously, seven out of 10 states voted to restore or expand abortion rights, according to early election results.
Both sides of the abortion debate got what they wanted, depending on the state. As it should be in a federal system.
National anti-abortion groups celebrated Trump’s victory over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, who campaigned heavily on restoring reproductive rights. They also celebrated the defeat of abortion-rights amendments in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota.
Meanwhile, the pro-abortion lobby are also celebrating.
Despite their losses, abortion-rights advocates said the ballot question victories signal widespread American support for abortion protections even in red states.
Most significantly, Missourians voted to overturn a near-total abortion ban. Voters also approved an abortion-rights amendment in Arizona, which will override the current 15-week ban. Voters agreed to expand reproductive-rights protections in Colorado, Maryland, Montana, Nevada and New York […]
Since Roe v Wade was overturned in June 2022, seven states – California, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, Ohio and Vermont – have approved reproductive-rights state constitutional amendments or rejected anti-abortion constitutional amendments. This year reproductive-rights coalitions put abortion on the ballot in 10 states.
In other words, the American democratic system is working exactly as it was intended.
No wonder the left are so mad.
