Democrats Fight On;
Brits Reject Limits on Abortion -- Part One of Two

Part One today combines a quick look at last night's Democratic presidential primary results in Kentucky and Oregon and a slightly longer look at the disheartening results in Great Britain. Part Two, which I strongly encourage you to read, reflects on a federal court panel's decision to overturn Virginia's Partial-Birth Abortion Infanticide law. The dissent is riveting and spot on.

As you know, once again pro-abortion Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton each prevailed in one state yesterday. In an eye-opening victory, Clinton crushed Obama in Kentucky, winning by 250,000 votes and by a more than 2-1 margin. Obama easily won in Oregon, but with a smaller popular vote margin and fewer delegates.

As I typed this, I thought of the "phony war" at the beginning of World War II, the phase between the time of the German invasion of Poland and the Battle of France in which there was, comparatively speaking, little fighting on the ground.

There remain mop up contests in Puerto Rico on June 1 and in Montana and South Dakota on June 3. But consider: At the same time last night Obama was saying to supporters in Iowa that he is "within reach of the Democratic nomination for president of the United States of America," a feisty, energized Clinton was reassuring her supporters in Kentucky, "We are winning the popular vote, and I am more determined than ever to see that every vote is cast and every ballot is counted."

There is non-stop talk about how Clinton can "gracefully" exit. If I were Obama I'd hold on to my wallet tightly and press my back up against the wall for protection.

Pro-lifers--and indeed seemingly anyone not completely blinded by pro-abortion ideology--had to look at the results in Parliament last night and weep. All attempts to roll back what ostensibly is the "upper" limit for abortions from 24 weeks to some point earlier in pregnancy failed. Reading press accounts, it appears that the proposal to reduce the upper limit to 22 weeks was the only vote that was close. MPs (Members of Parliament) rejected that by a vote of 304 to 233.

I'll write about this at length tomorrow or Friday, so let me just say two things quickly. First, as we discussed yesterday, all the horrible proposals to make a bad situation worse prevailed on Monday.

Second, judging by the news accounts, we can learn in a backhanded way how important it is to keep opposition to abortion "respectable." By that I mean it is clear that many, many MPs are amazed that anyone could be (in their view) not only so stupid and driven by fundamentalist religious zealotry as to resist killing huge, almost fully developed babies, but also so gauche. It's as if it's supposed to be understood that no gentleman or lady would have such poor manners as to produce a picture of an unborn baby at 16 weeks. According to the Guardian, when Mark Pritchard, a Conservative MP, did so Tuesday, he was "rebuked."

Remember that picture the next time you are weary. Without your unfailing efforts, that's the kind of heartless mindset that would rule.

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Part Two