{"id":2327306,"date":"2024-08-20T06:59:01","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T10:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-abortion-van-at-the-dnc-is-a-glimpse-of-americas-future\/"},"modified":"2024-08-20T07:08:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T11:08:21","slug":"the-abortion-van-at-the-dnc-is-a-glimpse-of-americas-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-abortion-van-at-the-dnc-is-a-glimpse-of-americas-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The Abortion Van At The DNC Is A Glimpse Of America\u2019s Future"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fthe-abortion-van-at-the-dnc-is-a-glimpse-of-americas-future%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=2327306&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--><p>The passage discusses \u200dthe controversial actions during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where free \u2064abortion services and sterilizations were offered, including distributing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-state-legislatures-move-to-ban-chemical-abortion-by-mail\/\" title=\"GOP State Legislatures Move To Ban Chemical Abortion By Mail\">abortion-inducing drugs<\/a> from a Planned Parenthood\u2063 RV. It criticizes the Democratic\u2064 Party&#8217;s current stance on abortion, characterizing it as radical and\u200d anti-family, contrasting it \u2062with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iowa-dem-scrubs-left-wing-views-from-campaign-site-to-kick-off-moderate-congressional-campaign\/\" title=\"Iowa Dem Scrubs Left-Wing Views From Campaign Site To Kick Off Moderate Congressional Campaign\">past positions<\/a> that aimed for more moderate views. The author argues that this shift reflects the\u2063 broader \u2064acceptance of a leftist worldview that, without strict moral principles, leads \u2063to an expansion of permissible circumstances\u2064 regarding abortion and other social issues.<\/p>\n<p>The text also critiques the Republican\u2063 Party&#8217;s current approach to these topics, noting a shift toward a\u200d more lenient stance on abortion since the post-Dobbs\u2064 era. It suggests that the GOP&#8217;s desire to avoid the \u200babortion debate mirrors previous tactics used regarding gay marriage, leading to a consensus that may normalize positions previously considered extreme.\u2064 The author warns that once moral\u2064 principles are compromised, \u200bthe scope of acceptable views expands uncontrollably, \u2063resulting in a slippery slope where\u2063 the original moral stance becomes indefensible.<\/p>\n<p>the piece argues that the\u2064 Republican \u200cParty risks losing \u2062its moral ground by compromising on key issues, inadvertently ceding \u200dground to \u200bthe Democratic\u200b narrative, which accepts the \u2064philosophical premises underlying their arguments.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Did you hear about the free abortions and sterilizations on offer at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week? Incredibly,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ppgreatrivers\/status\/1825010515619283146\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the news is real<\/a>. Abortion-inducing drugs (mifepristone and Plan B) will be doled out from the back of a Planned Parenthood RV, along with vasectomies, just a few blocks from a convention that will embrace a radical abortion-until-birth policy that would have been unthinkable, even for Democrats, just a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/08\/11\/us\/politics\/jd-vance-trump-harris-democrats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">savaged by the corporate press<\/a>&nbsp;for repeatedly describing Democrats as &ldquo;anti-family&rdquo; in media appearances last week. Now, as if to prove Vance&rsquo;s point, here they are with an abortion van at their convention and supporters&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1825335616566931746\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">marching through the streets dressed as abortion pills<\/a>. As my colleague Jordan Boyd&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/08\/19\/democrats-extremism-on-full-display-at-dnc-with-planned-parenthoods-free-abortions-stunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a>, Planned Parenthood&rsquo;s euphemistically labeled &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/planned-parenthoods-free-abortions-affirms-dems-extremism\/\" title=\"Planned Parenthood\u2019s Free Abortions Affirms Dems\u2019 Extremism\">mobile health center&#038;rdquo<\/a>; might not be an officially DNC-sanctioned part of the convention, but it fits right in with the party&rsquo;s macabre platform that would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pramila-jayapal-wants-to-end-the-filibuster-codify-roe-v-wade-at-the-federal-level\/\" title=\"Pramila Jayapal Wants To End The Filibuster, Codify Roe V. Wade At The Federal Level\">federalize abortion law<\/a> and allow it through all nine months of pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, Democrats are anti-family, anti-child, pro-death, pro-stagnation, pro-civilizational suicide. The abortion van, abortion pill marchers, and inflatable IUD at the DNC this week are merely cartoonish, grisly confirmations of what everyone already knows&mdash;including Democrats themselves.<\/p>\n<p>What&rsquo;s more difficult to understand and accept is how all of this is the inevitable consequence of a leftist worldview that the GOP has already accepted, which means what we&rsquo;re seeing this week at the DNC we will eventually see at the RNC.<\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t just mean that the Trump campaign and the Republican Party have softened their opposition to abortion in the post-<em>Dobbs<\/em>&nbsp;era. It&rsquo;s not merely that abortion was all but removed from the GOP platform and the GOP&rsquo;s previous position in favor of federal abortion limits was abandoned. It&rsquo;s that Trump and his Republican Party would like very much to stop talking about abortion altogether now, as if the matter is settled and we can move on to more important matters, like the border and inflation.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s the same attitude they have about gay marriage, which, like abortion once was, is supposed to be a settled debate, not up for discussion anymore. The choice to take these issues off the table, or try to, is usually framed as pragmatic. We want a big tent, Democrats are radical, Republicans can present their side as reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>But it doesn&rsquo;t work like that. There&rsquo;s a reason the Democrats went from talking about how abortion should be &ldquo;safe, legal, and rare&rdquo; in the 1990s to celebrating it with free abortions from the back of an RV in 2024. Once you cede the principle of the thing, once you accept the premise that it&rsquo;s justifiable to kill the unborn under certain circumstances, the list of allowable circumstances will continuously expand.<\/p>\n<p>This is of course true of any moral principle, which is why the left moved with alarming speed from arguing that gay marriage wouldn&rsquo;t hurt or affect anyone to demanding that everyone actively endorse and celebrate it or face ruin. There is no limiting principle to the argument that consenting adults have a right to have their sexual arrangements officially recognized by the state. That&rsquo;s why the rationale used in the gay marriage debates of the 2010s is exactly the rationale deployed today in the transgender debate, which will in turn eventually be successfully deployed on behalf of plural marriage, polyamory, and pedophilia and things we have yet to imagine.<\/p>\n<p>The point here is not to sow discord on the right or decry a big tent strategy for the GOP, but merely to point out that when you violate the moral principles on which a social order is based, you don&rsquo;t get to say when enough is enough. The slippery slope does not cease to be slippery when you think you&rsquo;ve had enough. You will go all the way down it.<\/p>\n<p>Put another way, the time to say &ldquo;no&rdquo; was&nbsp;<em>before<\/em>&nbsp;the moral principle was violated, not after. Having accepted, for example, that abortion is morally licit in cases where the child is conceived through rape or incest, or that it should be allowed in the first trimester because that seems a reasonable compromise with the left, today&rsquo;s Republican Party has lost the ability to object to abortion on any grounds whatsoever. <\/p>\n<p>Either an unborn child is a human being, with the same right to life as an infant or a toddler, or it has no rights and can be killed with impunity. Compromising on this is incoherent. It is to admit defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of people on the right think this is impolite or unhelpful to bring up. You see it in the tsk-tsking that erupts whenever someone points out, for example, that IVF as it&rsquo;s commonly practiced involves the intentional killing of unborn children, and that a conservative movement worth the name would object to that and try to outlaw it. But no, we&rsquo;re not supposed to talk about IVF because it&rsquo;s a distraction, it&rsquo;s divisive, it&rsquo;s unimportant. Let&rsquo;s change the subject, shall we, and talk about marginal tax rates instead.<\/p>\n<p>What nonsense. We have to recognize that on these kinds of issues there is no middle ground on which to compromise, and if we don&rsquo;t win on these issues, the rest of them won&rsquo;t really matter. Democrats at least understand that and are willing to follow their logic to it ghastly conclusions, come what may. That&rsquo;s why they castrate and mutilate children in the name of transgenderism. That&rsquo;s why they bring their abortion van to the DNC. They accept the philosophical premises of their own arguments, and act accordingly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We cannot say the same for Republicans, whose position is typically that they will bring us the same policies as Democrats but on a slightly slower timeline.<\/p>\n<p>So sneer and mock the DNC all you like for its bloody abortion extremism, but understand that this is happening because we lost the ability to say &ldquo;no.&rdquo; From abortion to gay marriage and even to issues like immigration, divorce, and feminism, we thought we could be clever and argue for compromises and carve-outs, assuming that the moral logic of our opponents would not win out in the end.<\/p>\n<p>That was wrong. Some issues cannot, in the long run, bear compromise. Having abandoned traditional marriage, you will first have gay marriage and then plural marriage and eventually no marriage at all, because the institution will be destroyed utterly. <\/p>\n<p>Having abandoned the abolition of abortion, you will first have states decide the question through &ldquo;popular sovereignty&rdquo; and then Congress will nationalize abortion and eventually you will be arrested for praying silently outside abortion clinics&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cd6yyz413q5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">like they do in Britain<\/a>. Having accepted the premise of feminism, you will begin by celebrating women in the workforce and end by insisting the objectification of women is &ldquo;empowering.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The lesson for Republicans is that it&rsquo;s no use basing a political coalition on a shared preference for, say, lower tax rates while papering over disagreements about what constitutes a family, or a person. If that&rsquo;s how you cobble together a political coalition, it will lose every time, because even its victories will be pyrrhic. Eventually you will assent to the thing you once objected to, and you will be ashamed you ever had an objection to begin with.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      John Daniel Davidson is a senior editor at The Federalist. His writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Claremont Review of Books, The New York Post, and elsewhere. He is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pagan-America-Decline-Christianity-Dark\/dp\/1684514444\/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Pagan+America&amp;qid=1695306441&amp;sr=8-1\"><i>Pagan America: the Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come<\/i><\/a>. Follow him on Twitter, @johnddavidson.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you catch the news about the free abortions and sterilizations being provided at this week&#8217;s Democratic National Convention in Chicago? Astonishingly, it&#8217;s true. Abortion medications (mifepristone and Plan B) will be distributed from a Planned Parenthood RV, alongside vasectomies, just a short distance from a convention that will endorse an extreme abortion policy allowing termination up until birth\u2014something that would have been unimaginable for Democrats just ten years ago. Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance faced harsh criticism from mainstream media for labeling Democrats as &#8220;anti-family&#8221; during his recent appearances. Now, with an abortion van present at their convention and supporters parading through the streets dressed as abortion pills, it seems to validate Vance&#8217;s claims. As noted by my colleague Jordan Boyd, while Planned Parenthood\u2019s so-called \u201cmobile health center\u201d may not be officially endorsed by the DNC, it aligns perfectly with the party&#8217;s grim platform advocating for federalized abortion laws throughout all nine months of pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Democrats are anti-family and pro-death\u2014a stark contrast to traditional values. The presence of an abortion van and activists dressed as pills at this week\u2019s DNC serves as grotesque evidence of what is widely recognized\u2014even among Democrats themselves.<\/p>\n<p>What is harder to grasp is how this situation reflects a leftist ideology that has already been accepted by some within the GOP; what we observe at the DNC today may eventually appear at the RNC too. This isn&#8217;t merely about Trump and his party softening their stance on abortion since the post-Dobbs era; it&#8217;s also about how they seem eager to avoid discussing it altogether now that they believe it&#8217;s settled\u2014shifting focus instead to issues like immigration or inflation.<\/p>\n<p>This same mindset applies to gay marriage; once viewed as settled law like abortion was supposed to be, these topics are now considered off-limits for debate within certain circles. The rationale behind sidelining these discussions is often framed as pragmatic: aiming for inclusivity while portraying Republicans as reasonable compared to radical Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>However, this approach fails because there\u2019s a clear trajectory in how moral principles evolve over time\u2014evident in how Democrats shifted from advocating for &#8220;safe, legal, and rare&#8221; abortions in the 1990s to celebrating them openly today with free services offered right outside their convention venue. Once you concede any principle regarding when life can be terminated under specific circumstances (like rape or incest), those boundaries inevitably expand further.<\/p>\n<p>This pattern holds true across various moral debates; consider how quickly arguments transitioned from asserting that gay marriage wouldn\u2019t harm anyone to demanding universal endorsement or facing severe consequences if one disagrees. There are no limits once you accept that consenting adults should have their relationships recognized legally\u2014the same reasoning currently applied in discussions around transgender rights could soon extend into other areas such as plural marriage or even more controversial subjects yet unimagined.<\/p>\n<p>The aim here isn\u2019t necessarily to create division on the right or criticize big-tent strategies but rather highlight that violating foundational moral principles leads down an irreversible path where one cannot dictate when enough is enough\u2014the slippery slope remains treacherous regardless of perceived limits reached along its descent.<\/p>\n<p>In simpler terms: saying \u201cno\u201d should have happened before any moral compromise was made\u2014not after it had already occurred. By accepting conditions under which abortions might be permissible (such as cases involving rape), today&#8217;s Republican Party has forfeited its ability ever again objectively oppose any form of abortion without contradiction.<\/p>\n<p>An unborn child either possesses human rights equivalent to those of infants or toddlers\u2014or none whatsoever\u2014and compromising on this issue lacks coherence; it signifies surrendering ground previously held firm against such practices.<\/p>\n<p>Many conservatives find discussing uncomfortable truths impolite\u2014for instance acknowledging IVF often results in intentionally ending unborn lives\u2014but avoiding these conversations only perpetuates ignorance surrounding critical issues needing resolution rather than distraction through less significant matters like tax rates alone.<\/p>\n<p>We must recognize there exists no middle ground available concerning these vital topics: failure here means losing sight entirely over broader concerns down-the-line if we don\u2019t confront them head-on now while still possible! <\/p>\n<p>Democrats understand fully where their philosophical premises lead them\u2014even if those conclusions appear horrific\u2014and act accordingly without hesitation unlike many Republicans who merely offer slower versions similar policies instead!<\/p>\n<p>So mock all you want regarding DNC&#8217;s extreme stance towards bloody abortions\u2014but realize such developments arise due largely because we lost our capacity collectively say \u201cno.\u201d From contentious debates surrounding both reproductive rights &amp; LGBTQ+ matters alike\u2014including immigration reform\/divorce\/feminism\u2014we mistakenly believed clever compromises could suffice against relentless encroachment upon established norms leading us astray ultimately resulting inevitable acceptance things once opposed vehemently! <\/p>\n<p>The lesson learned? Political coalitions built solely around shared preferences (like lower taxes) fail miserably unless grounded firmly upon unwavering commitment defending core values defining family structures\/personhood itself! Otherwise victories achieved become hollow triumphs yielding nothing lasting beyond momentary gains before succumbing entirely into oblivion regrettably forgetting original objections raised initially!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":2327307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Biden-Harris.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[4310,5374,7705,3899,5894],"class_list":["post-2327306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-abortion","tag-america","tag-dnc","tag-future","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Biden-Harris.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2327307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}