Commentary
Chile just refused to ratify the “most progressive constitution ever written,” and it wasn’t even close. Voters rejected radicalism by an overwhelming 62 to 38 percent, with the poor and indigenous populations voting no in greater numbers than the well-off. Good for them. Chile’s future would have been in direct peril had the constitution been ratified.
Too bad many Americans lack the same common sense. Sad to say, many of the proposals rejected by Chileans are mainstream policy prescriptions within our ever-more-extreme Democratic Party. And that presents a peril to this country that we cannot ignore.
Abortion Absolutism
Let’s start with the left’s most sacred cow. The rejected charter would have guaranteed access to “the voluntary interruption of a pregnancy.” The details would have been worked out by legislation, but such open-ended language would seem to be unlimited as to time of gestation or reason for wanting to end a fetus’s life. This isn’t surprising. Abortion absolutism has become a litmus test of progressive thinking. Hence, legislation passed the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives that would mandate a similar approach as that proposed for Chile via federal fiat….