We Must Keep Fighting Abortion

Why do the Republicans keep going back to the well on abortion? All the recent activity on the matter is bound to go for naught; it's likely that any pro-life measure anywhere will be taken to the courts and found unconstitutional. So why bother?

To begin with, because abortion is a moral evil of so grave a nature that it must be fought. A pregnant woman is carrying a human baby whether she wants to admit it or not, and that life merits the same protection as any other life. Indeed, if you are unwilling to protect human life at its frailest, it is fair to question whether you have any real conviction towards the dignity of life at any other stage or under any other circumstances. If you will not protect life in the womb, then everything else you stand for is subject to question and doubt.

The abortion issue must somehow be kept on the table. To have many state legislatures working against it ensures this, even if they are subject to rejection by the courts. But keep pushing the question and one day, perhaps, the pro-life laws will actually be upheld when a better court is available.

Another reason is that the abortion issue is one of the few where the we have a cut and dried dispute between the two major parties: the GOP is against it, and the Democrats for it (by and large; we realize there are exceptions). Voters need clear choices so far as they can be had. This issue is an example of that, one which, again, we can draw useful conclusions about what else the parties might do or favor.

These may be the key reasons we must keep up the fight against abortion. The list is not limited to them nor exhausted. But it does give us starting points, and from there we may eventually end this modern American holocaust.