Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Thought experiment: skin in the game

Ladies, what would you give to end abortion? What would you give to save 650,000 lives this year?

What would you give to have saved 45 million lives since 1970?

What if there were something you could do that would only save 50 unborn people? Peradventure there shall lack five of the 50 unborn? Or if there were forty to be found that you could save? Or thirty, or twenty? I will speak yet but this once, what if there were something you could do that would save ten unborn babies?






For the sake of ten, would you give up the 19th Amendment?






Dem platform


GOP platform



To be clear: this is not an argument, suggestion, or implication that anti-abortion women should not vote at this time in history (rather, they very nearly must). The question is whether one would be willing to restrict the franchise to a group of voters who would bring an end to legal abortion, if that meant one would be among those excluded from the franchise altogether.