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Should Democrats Give A Little On Abortion If It Means Winning A Lot More?
The obvious answer to us is “no”, especially with women’s rights under attack as never before. At the same time, for the first time, we’re thinking it may be something worth discussing…
We first wrote about this over a year ago, after a long discussion with a Democrat we’re friends with, who is strongly anti-Trump, but who is also strongly anti-abortion. She feels while Trump is terrible, the Democratic Party is shutting her out.
But we never published what we wrote. Because when we read our own reporting back, it seemed like nonsense. Because to us it seems pretty simple: a woman should have an absolute right to choose what to do with her body. Nobody has the right to legislate that out of the way.
That said, when John Bel Edwards, an anti-abortion Democrat won a second term as Governor of Louisiana a little over a week ago, despite President Trump’s utmost efforts to torpedo him, we started thinking again about our friend, and that conversation.
We found the piece we’re linking to here (in the Pat Buchanan founded “American Conservative”), about why Trump’s tactics failed in the Louisiana election to be well thought…
