Commentary Many would rather avoid a serious discussion of abortion. Some economic conservatives see the issue as a distraction from the serious business of getting elected and getting the economy back on track. Social liberals see such a discussion as itself a threat to a settled right declared by the Supreme Court nearly 50 years ago and relied on by women and abortionists ever since, no matter how shaky the legal basis for the decision. Many find the whole subject too grisly and unpleasant to bring up, or too tied to the experiences or views of loved family members. The Texas Heartbeat Act reminds us that abortion stops a human heart. It brings the abortion debate back to the heart of political life and moral concern, from which the court’s rulings supposedly had banished it. President Joe Biden calls the Texas Heartbeat Act “extreme,” but the present abortion regime that …