Abortion Remains the Left’s Lodestar

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Abortion Remains the Left’s Lodestar

By Deion Kathawa| January 5, 2018

After Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election, the Democrats fashioned themselves into a permanent, readily identifiable, and divisive faction—“#TheResistance”—in an unprecedented attempt to delegitimize a duly elected president and rollback the outcome of a free and fair election. It’s nearly impossible to overstate how radical this was. And yet, the Left offered more proof of how uninterested it is in even sharing power, let alone wielding it responsibly.

Not to be outdone, the party’s abortion arm has geared up to fight in the “War on Women, Part 87,567,” which was sparked by an eminently humane policy meant to offer some reprieve in a real war zone: abortion politics. Ohio Governor John Kasich last month signed a bill that prohibits doctors from performing abortions in cases where tests reveal the fetus has or likely has Down Syndrome. The legislation goes into effect in March.

Abortion zealots immediately sprang into action. Los Angeles Times columnist Jamil Smith scoffed at the notion that Kasich is a “moderate” for barring discrimination in the womb based upon fetal chromosome count because true moderates like Smith know the