Pro-lifers are murdering babies

When a baby's life is at stake, it's not the thought that counts

My opinion on abortion has always been the same:

Keep it legal on demand up to the point of viability (or some similar threshold) and then ban it thereafter, with exceptions for rape, incest, and genetic health defects.

It seems obvious to me that abortion in the eighth month is no different from infanticide, just as it seems obvious that abortion in the first few weeks is completely different from infanticide.

My moral intuition says it would be equally wrong to permit elective abortion up to the point of birth (which actually does happen thanks to sickos like this) as it would be to prohibit abortion in the early stages of pregnancy (when the vast majority of terminations take place, most of which are socially necessary).

For a long time this reasonable and enlightened centrist position was also the opinion of the median American voter, and until today I had assumed that it was still the median view. But it turns out this is false—I am now quite conservative on abortion, because the median voter has become a pro-choice maximalist. They now support an absolute right to abortion on demand up to the point of birth.

See that shift after Roe was overturned? For that you can thank GOP overreach at the state level and pathetically incompetent Republican messaging.

The GOP made no attempt to sell their views on abortion to the broader American electorate, and simply blind-sided us with restrictions out of step with actual preferences on the ground. This let the Dems take control of the narrative, and they wasted no time digging up pregnant preteen rape victims to make a cause célèbre.

As a consequence, a sizeable cohort of marginal voters have abandoned my enlightened centrist position and instead have adopted pro choice maximalism. They are so disgusted with Republican extremism that they’ve begun the accept the theoretical murder of near-infants if it means stripping pro-lifers of power.

This is very obviously a complete and utter disaster, and the pro-life movement should be ashamed of itself. By pushing for overreaching restrictions on early abortions or birth control that could never be sustained and were obviously going to provoke a massive thermostatic backlash against them, pro-lifers have likely doomed tens of thousands of viable babies to death over the next few decades.

This was easily predictable and could have been avoided. John Roberts warned conservatives not to go down this path; he wanted to take Roe apart piecemeal, boiling the frog slowly over time, so inattentive and high time preference liberals wouldn’t catch on. That could have worked, but you fundamentalist chuds ruined the plan because you just *had* to impose your will on everyone *right this moment*. You couldn’t even wait to ensure the longevity of your own policy, and because of your impulsiveness the country is now a-okay with killing babies.

How the hell is anyone supposed to join a coalition with you fundies? How can we trust you to help other factions in the party achieve our goals when you can’t even exercise sufficient restraint and strategy to achieve your own?

You have blood on your hands, pro-lifers. Baby blood.

Shame on you.