Two generations of women who grew up with Roe v. Wade as the law of the land raised their voices in protest at the ballot box, opposing the Supreme Court’s historic overturning of Roe in June. As a result, all 5 abortion-related bills voted on in the midterms said no to pro-life, even in Kentucky.
How excellent on the FiveThirtyEight website: “In June, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and the Court’s ultraconservative majority wrote that they are sending the issue of abortion back to the voters. Voters are dissatisfied.
“The midterm election results read as a striking rebuke of the court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and the wave of near-total abortion bans that followed.”
As for the fact that women helped get those votes, the Daily Wire noted that “compared to married people who favored GOP candidates this year, CNN The exit poll of a total of 18,571 respondents found that 68% of single women marked their ballots for Democratic politicians, a 37-point advantage over the Republican Party.
And as people get younger, the disparity becomes even greater: “Other notable data from the CNN poll shows that 72% of women ages 18 to 29 voted for a Democrat.”
What a dramatic difference in voting patterns, consistent with the thinking of many unmarried women, especially younger ones. (See also Here for more information about younger voters.)
To quote again from the Daily Wire: “Studies suggest that single women are more likely to vote for Democrats than married women because they are dependent on a single income, have feminist attitudes about social issues such as abortion and premarital sexual behavior, and agree with ideologies that redefine gender roles and responsibilities family.
“The Democrats’ radical abortion and LGBTQ agenda coupled with their neglect of governing our cities makes perfect sense when we realize that the destruction of the nuclear family and dependence on welfare keeps the Democratic Party in power,” Jayme Chandler Franklin wrote on Twitter. “
Analyzing the data further, Breitbart noted that: “Thirty-three percent of women said abortion is their most important issue, with 77 percent of respondents supporting Democratic candidates compared to 22 percent of Republican candidates. The next most important issue for women was inflation at 28 percent, followed by crime, gun policy and immigration at 10 percent.
“A majority of women (67 percent) also said they were angry or dissatisfied with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, with 72 percent of women who supported Democratic candidates agreeing with this sentiment compared to 27 percent who supported Republicans. On the other hand, 30 percent of women were enthusiastic or pleased with the overturning of Roe, with the majority supporting Republicans (84 percent) compared to Democrats (15 percent).
This certainly breaks with historical voting patterns in which economyMuch more than social issues, they dominated voting decisions.
Of course, pro-lifers also showed up in large numbers.
How he noticed Catherine Glenn Foster of the American Conservative Party: “Abortion activists did poorly at the state level. Democrats did not break the state governor, state attorney general or statehouse seats in red states that have been enforcing abortion limits since June. “Abortion activists could not defeat public officials in these states or convince the U.S. House of Representatives or Senate to block these state laws.”
Foster also noted that a significant number of states with pro-life laws elect Republican governors (including Arkansas, Idaho, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Georgia, Iowa, Ohio, Tennessee and South Carolina, by majority margins in most cases ).
Given this, there has been powerful opposition to reversing Roe, and pro-abortion rights activists have stoked the flames of fear with a relentless, over-the-top PR campaign, as if overturning Roe meant that abortion would now be banned nationwide (rather than simply returning to the states ).
This drive was also very well funded and used wise message which distracted from the realities of abortion. And prior statements by at least one candidate of the Republican Party, saying that he would prosecute women who have abortions as murderers, which further fueled the flames of fear, if not outright terror.
However, such statements, which were completely different from the norm, were presented as mainstream to guarantee deeper voter outrage, especially among women.
Writing for The Federalist, Robert G. Marshall identified these 5 are the consequences of Roe: 1) Reversing Roe will put women in prison for abortion; 2) Women will be prosecuted for self-abortion if Roe is reversed; 3) Women will be prosecuted for miscarriages; 4) Spawning will criminalize the operate of pills and IUDs; 5) “The unborn have never been recognized in law as persons.”
Sadly, and not surprisingly, such lies have already taken root in the hearts and minds of millions of people, and the pro-abortion side is as energetic as ever.
On the other hand, it is understandable that the pro-life side, filled with euphoria and encouragement after the historic overturning of Roe, has not yet fully recovered its second wind.
So how can you win state-by-state battles? How can you overturn the horrific abortion laws passed in Michigan, California and Montana?
A November 9 email from the California Family Council announced that “California voters are approving one of the ‘most extreme abortion laws in the world.'”
IN Montana“Voters rejected a ballot initiative during the midterm elections that would have made newborns born alive, including those who survive a botched abortion, legal persons entitled to life-saving medical care.”
What can be done to reverse this gruesome tide?
We can only see this in two ways.
First of all, there must be a mass revival in the Church, leading to numerous conversions in society, leading to a glorious national awakening. Only when tens of millions of Americans win God’s heart for the unborn will the tides turn more decisively toward life.
As stated in a quote attributed to Francis Schaeffer, “Every abortion clinic should have a sign in front of it that says, ‘Open by Church Permission.'”
As the Church revives the horrors of abortion and the sanctity of life, and God’s people win the lost and make disciples by the millions, the tide will turn toward life.
Secondly, we must continue to fight to change hearts and minds, expose the realities of these draconian pro-abortion laws and continue to show the personality of the child in the mother’s womb.
I expect and hope that just as many Americans are waking up to the madness of extreme transgender activism, particularly chemical castration and genital mutilation of children, they will also wake up to the reality of abortion.
The good news is that Roe was overturned, something that for decades seemed completely impossible to many. It is also expected that the pro-abortion side will gain fresh energy to fight.
But the same persistence that fought for 5 decades to repeal Roe is the same persistence that can turn wave after state into reality.
But without a broad-based national revival, none of this will happen. Thanks to this, today’s radical pro-abortion laws may end up in the dustbin of history.
Forward!
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