{"id":2105501,"date":"2023-11-22T03:31:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T08:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-must-get-serious-about-using-political-power-if-they-want-to-win-on-abortion\/"},"modified":"2023-11-22T03:36:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T08:36:06","slug":"republicans-must-get-serious-about-using-political-power-if-they-want-to-win-on-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-must-get-serious-about-using-political-power-if-they-want-to-win-on-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Must Get Serious About Using Political Power If They Want To Win On Abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublicans-must-get-serious-about-using-political-power-if-they-want-to-win-on-abortion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2105501&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<h2>Republicans and the \u2063Pro-Life Movement: Redemption After a Tragic Loss<\/h2>\n<p>It is\u200c no secret that Republicans and the\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-must-get-serious-about-using-political-power-if-they-want-to-win-on-abortion\/\" title=\"Republicans Must Get Serious About Using Political Power If They Want To Win On Abortion\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/covid-has-killed-her-hundreds-of-thousands-but-abortion-has-killed-her-tens-of-millions\/\" title=\"COVID Has Killed Her Hundreds of Thousands, But Abortion Has Killed Her Tens of Millions\">pro-life movement<\/a> lost big<\/a> in Ohio on Nov. 7. Winning by more than half a million votes, the Issue 1 ballot initiative\u200b enshrined the so-called \u201cright\u201d to abortion in the state\u2019s Constitution. Rather than\u200d examine how this managed to happen in a state that Donald Trump won by 8 \u200bpoints in \u20622020 or what role abortion has in the future of the party platform, it is important to address what comes next for Republicans and the pro-life movement in\u2062 Ohio and\u2063 nationwide \u2014 and most importantly, \u2063how they can redeem themselves after this tragic \u200dloss.<\/p>\n<p>When the Founding\u200c Fathers devised our government, one of their greatest fears about democracy was its tendency to imperil public morality and virtue. Fisher Ames, an early American representative and leader in the Federalist Party, <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/us\/companion.websites\/fdscontent\/uscompanion\/us\/static\/companion.websites\/9780199338863\/whittington_updata\/ch_4_ames_dangers_of_american_liberty.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> that \u201cthe known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.\u201d Voting majorities\u200d do not determine whether an act is\u200d right or wrong, and\u2063 it is\u200d clear in this instance that democracy has inclined itself to immorality. Therefore, abortion\u2062 should have never been on the ballot in the first \u200cplace.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>By opening up the abortion debate to a vote, this initiative pitted swaths\u200d of \u200bactivist Democrats \u2064who were energized and ready to mobilize the entire state to defend\u200c abortion against Republicans, who were exhausted from losses the last few election cycles and suffered from a \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/irans-president-refuses-to-meet-with-biden-amid-nuclear-deal-talks\/\" title=\"Iran\u2019s president refuses to meet with Biden amid nuclear deal talks\">low voter turnout<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All of this points to the \u2064fact that Republicans can continue to\u2063 blame their fundraising and ground game and simply \u201ckeep trying,\u201d\u2063 but \u200call this will do is\u2063 lead them to lose in \u2062every state where an\u2064 abortion initiative is brought up\u200b as a ballot referendum. In other words, Republicans must attack the instrument of their defeat: the ballot \u2063initiative. Ballot initiatives are a dangerous gamble for\u200d Republicans, particularly as the party\u2019s potential voters turn out in fewer numbers and are much less zealously inclined to run to the polls. Similarly, ballot initiatives, which came to prominence during the Progressive Era, are inherently\u2063 subversive to the republican process,\u2062 allowing the masses, the worst excesses of democracy, to override the established political\u200b system and \u200btheir representatives. Today, instead of allowing\u2063 Democrats to vote on rewrites of state constitutions, Republicans must actually \u200dstand up and govern.<\/p>\n<p>With\u200d this in mind, a \u2064group of Ohio\u200b lawmakers have proposed a <a href=\"https:\/\/ohiohouse.gov\/news\/republican\/deceptive-ohio-issue-1-misled-the-public-but-doesnt-repeal-our-laws-117412\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">novel idea<\/a>: remove \u200cthe power of courts to interpret the\u200c new constitutional amendment and instead turn \u200bit over to the state legislature. The lawmakers\u2019 proposal highlights the amendment\u2019s \u2064deceptive and vague language and argues \u2064that the passage of Issue 1 does not explicitly repeal any\u200d state laws protecting life. Titled the \u201cIssue \u20621 Implementation Act,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndrewJTobias\/status\/1724087865922011634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bill<\/a> would remove Ohio courts\u2019 jurisdiction over Issue\u2063 1 and turn it \u2064over exclusively to \u200bthe state legislature. The bill states that any litigation regarding Issue 1 be automatically dismissed by state courts and makes it a\u2064 misdemeanor\u200c for \u2063a judge\u200b to do otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>This \u200cis what Republicans should have been doing all along. Republicans supporting\u2063 this bill are exercising their political power in a way that is conducive to protecting life. Instead of\u200c accepting Democrats\u2019 victory, these Republicans are proving\u2063 themselves to be worthy of the real political\u2062 fight that lies in \u200dfront of them, that is, not electoral procedures, but\u200d protecting \u2064human life. Any Republican \u2062who \u2062simply walks away in defeat \u200cafter \u2063Nov. 7 deserves to have his pro-life bona fides seriously questioned.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Further, if Republicans allowed this question to be\u200b left up to the courts, they would be accepting defeat. Republicans often assume that courts, particularly conservative or\u200c \u201coriginalist\u201d ones, are their savior from leftist excesses. But we have seen that no matter how \u201cconservative\u201d a court may appear, it will often\u200b side in\u200c favor of the preferred liberal policy. A prominent example is the Supreme Court\u2019s 2020 decision in \u2063 <em>Bostock v. Clayton County<\/em> when \u200bnominally\u2062 conservative\u200b Justice Neil Gorsuch penned\u200d the court\u2019s majority opinion explaining why it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/ericbachman\/2021\/06\/10\/the-bostock-decision-one-year-later-how-lgbtq-employment-discrimination-laws-are-evolving\/#:~:text=In%20Bostock%2C%20the%20Court%20ruled,sexual%20orientation%20and%20gender%20identity.\">ruled in favor<\/a> of incorporating protections for individuals\u200b who identify as transgender into the Civil \u200bRights Act of 1964.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>An invigorated and strong Republican \u200cParty will not put its fate in the hands of an unreliable judiciary but actively seek what \u2064is true and good on its\u2064 own terms. As Rep. Beth Lear, R-Galena, said, \u201cNo amendment can overturn the God-given rights with which\u2062 we were\u2062 born.\u201d And indeed, she is right; it\u2019s\u200d time for Republicans to wield political power\u2062 and prevent this from\u200d happening.<\/p>\n<p>At the end\u2062 of the day, if Democrats could implement this plan in \u200dtheir favor, they would. For\u2064 them, it is not about democracy but their commitment to abortion. And even though the amendment passed, the fight is far \u2062from over. Instead, Republicans must redeem themselves from their failure on abortion by \u2064substantially \u2062working against the\u200b amendment, which means\u200d handing over the power to enforce it \u2063to those\u2064 who have an interest in protecting \u2064the unborn.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>By removing the jurisdiction of the courts\u2064 over the matter, Republicans offer themselves \u2014 and, most importantly, the unborn \u2014 a fighting chance for life. Both chambers of the Ohio \u2063Legislature \u200dare overwhelmingly Republican, so moving \u2064jurisdiction over abortion to \u2064the state legislature creates a greater \u2062opportunity for interpreting and implementing the amendment in the most pro-life \u2063way possible. By the very nature of their positions, legislators are emboldened to take decisive action; they are not bound by\u200b legal\u2062 philosophies that inhibit decision-making.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A party unwilling to take political risks for the sake\u2063 of doing the right thing is unlikely to be effective in any other endeavor. Republicans need to move forward with a strong but calculated approach to abortion and the \u2062new amendment. There is considerable risk, as this is no simple feat, but it is beyond time for Republicans to \u200cmatch the \u2064Democrats\u2019 vigor when fighting\u2062 for what they want. Inevitably, adversaries of the proposed legislation will accuse elected Republicans of disregarding the majority\u2019s decision to enshrine abortion in the state constitution. But this is nothing new, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/10\/26\/poll-less-than-1-4-of-ohioans-support-the-unlimited-abortion-outlined-in-issue-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">data shows<\/a> that Ohio voters overwhelmingly oppose these radical\u200d abortion measures.<\/p>\n<p>A willingness to halt the implementation of this \u200cconstitutional \u200bamendment in its tracks would be an exceptional first step in playing offense on abortion with the \u2062use of legislative\u2064 power. Republicans must give these lawmakers their\u200d full\u200b support and show the party at large that the political will is to fight to\u200c defend life on \u2063a legislative level,\u2062 not an electoral one.<\/p>\n<p>While winning \u200bover hearts and \u200cminds on the \u2063issue of abortion will always be\u200c important, it is no substitute for\u200d total electoral, judicial, and legislative victory. Life should have won at the ballot box in Ohio, but it did not. Therefore, Republicans in Ohio and across the country must reevaluate \u2062not only how they engage\u2063 with elections but, most importantly, how they govern.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> Why is it\u2062 crucial for Republicans to find \u2062common ground and collaborate with individuals from various backgrounds \u200band \u200cperspectives within the pro-life movement<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \u200b He\u2063 state legislature would\u200c provide a \u2064more favorable environment for\u2064 pro-life policies. The passage\u2063 of \u200bthe \u200d&#8221;Issue 1 Implementation\u2063 Act&#8221; would not only counteract the effects of the recent ballot initiative\u200c but also serve as a proactive step towards\u200c protecting\u200c the \u200brights \u2064of the unborn.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Republicans\u200d must not underestimate the power of education and \u2063grassroots movements \u2064in the fight against abortion. It is not enough to\u2064 simply rely on political maneuvering and\u2063 legislation. The\u2064 pro-life movement must engage\u2064 in meaningful \u2062dialogue and\u200c promote awareness about the sanctity of life. By changing hearts and\u200d minds, Republicans\u2062 can \u2062create a cultural shift that strengthens the pro-life cause and compels individuals to choose life over convenience.<\/p>\n<p>It is also crucial for Republicans to unify and support one another in this \u2063fight.\u200c The pro-life movement encompasses individuals from various backgrounds and\u2064 perspectives, and\u2062 it is essential for Republicans to find common ground and work together towards a shared goal.\u2062 By fostering a sense of\u200b solidarity and collaboration, \u200cthe pro-life movement can become a formidable force that cannot be easily disregarded.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, Republicans must not lose \u200bsight\u2062 of the\u200b ultimate objective: \u2062the protection of human \u2063life.\u2062 It\u200c is \u2063easy to get \u200dcaught up \u200cin partisan politics and strategic maneuvers, but at the core,\u2064 the pro-life movement is about advocating for the rights \u200bof the unborn. Republicans must prioritize the values and principles that drive \u2063their commitment to \u200bthe pro-life cause. \u200dBy keeping their focus on the importance of\u200b every human life, Republicans\u2064 can navigate the complex political landscape with integrity and determination.<\/p>\n<p>In \u200bconclusion, the recent loss in Ohio \u2063should serve as\u2064 a wake-up \u200ccall for Republicans and the pro-life movement. Rather than dwell on \u200ddefeat, it is crucial\u2062 to look towards the\u2063 future\u200b and strategize \u200cfor success. By rejecting \u2064the deceptive nature\u2063 of ballot initiatives,\u200b empowering the state legislature, promoting education and grassroots movements, fostering\u200c unity within the\u2064 party, and staying true to \u2063the fundamental principles of \u2062the pro-life cause, \u200cRepublicans can redeem themselves and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/negotiating-prescription-drug-prices-wont-resolve-the-real-problems-of-health-costs\/\" title=\"Negotiating drug prices won't solve health cost issues.\">make significant strides<\/a> in the fight for the\u2064 protection of human life. The battle\u200c may be challenging, but with perseverance and unwavering dedication, Republicans can turn tragedy into triumph and create a\u200c society that upholds the \u2063sanctity \u200cof\u2062 every\u2063 life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is no secret that Republicans and the pro-life movement lost big in Ohio on Nov. 7. Winning by more than half a million votes, the Issue 1 ballot initiative enshrined the so-called \u201cright\u201d to abortion in the state\u2019s Constitution. 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