2/19/2005
Good post on The Conservative Cat that is definitely worth reading. Seems that NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League) is trying to reach out to pro-lifers to find common ground. Perhaps common ground to them is something akin to the utterly ridiculous suggestions made by the Boston Globe regarding ways that liberals can be even more liberal in their politics while STILL winning moderate votes. I had a good laugh when I read their suggestions, which are summed up nicely by James Taranto of the Opinionjournal.com’s Best of The Web Today:
The Globe’s specific proposals are as follows:
* Reverse “outdated laws” that “still forbid adoption by unmarried or single parents and gay couples.”
* Improve “access to reliable birth control,” which the Globe suggests would include handing out condoms in high schools, making “morning after” contraception available over the counter, and requiring pharmacists to dispense birth-control pills even if they have conscientious objections to doing so.
* Provide poor women with “support in raising their children”–meaning more-generous welfare benefits–if they choose not to abort.
Yeah, that’ll work.
Anyway, in my mind, this move on the part of one of the most radical abortion groups in existence strikes me as just a wee bit desperate. The abortion debate has actually been a losing one for at least the past two election cycles, perhaps even three, and liberals who support the NARAL line of “abortion-on-demand” are fast becoming an endangered species.
However, being the optimist that I am, I would say we propose a test in order to measure NARAL’s true willingness to find common ground. Will they help fund abstinence-based education?
Enquiring minds want to know!
David Flanagan
Viewpointjournal.com
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