Commentary
In the space of three decades, the Democrats have gone from the party of “safe, legal, and rare” abortions to the party of abortion on demand.
In the early 1990s, then-presidential nominee Bill Clinton argued that although abortions should be accessible, they should also be considered emergency procedures.
But as they say, that was then, and this is now. Clinton appeared to be a moderate on abortion. Today, many of the left’s policies and values are anything but moderate.
As the conservative author Alexandra DeSanctis noted, the left’s base “appears unwilling to tolerate a slogan that suggests abortion ought to be ‘rare,’ hearing in it too much of a concession to abortion opponents.” Indeed. For many on the left, abortion is seen as a fundamental, constitutional right….