Another Silver Lining
Colorado “fetal personhood” amendment goes down in flames.
This illustrates that abortion is like federal spending cuts; criminalizing abortion requires focusing on the abstract rather than the specific. “Pro-lifers” can be a pretty sizable group in the abstract, but start talking about constitutional amendments that would actually make obtaining abortions a serious criminal offense and require that sanctions not be applied selectively and support for criminalization vanishes as quickly as support for spending cuts vanishes if it’s ever made clear that this means “slashing defense, Medicare and Social Security” rather than “limiting welfare recipients to one Cadillac a year.”
It’s also nice to all-purpose winger Ken Buck go down to ignominious defeat.
This is a sad day for billions of Blastocyst-Americans everywhere.
Yeah it’s crazy how most people think a fertilized egg isn’t the same as a human being.
Other results from Colorado make me think that it is really shaking off the fundamentalist funk it was trending toward for awhile.
So now Colorado is objectively pro-genocide? How will they all sleep at night?
[...] Scott Lemiuex has a really bright silver lining. [...]
“limiting welfare recipients to one Cadillac a year.”
But…but…how will they get to the liquor store so they can buy that $500 bottle of Cristal?
[...] Colorado’s odious “fetal personhood” amendment went down in flames yesterday. [...]
Yeah, I remember when we overwhelmingly voted to allow stem cell research in Michigan. Shockingly, most people didn’t really buy the idea that allowing such research was a slippery slope to state-sponsored Mengeleism.
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