Jared Polis is often portrayed as a rational liberal whom the Democratic Party would be wise to emulate. One political writer recently argued that the Colorado governor was a “model of how you can build a coalition of the normal and decent.” It’s true that Polis was one of the first Democrats to shed the hysterical federal COVID regime. And his occasional pushback against fringe progressive economic ideas — the norm among Western Democrats not that long ago — certainly makes him seem less radical. Yet his support for what is likely the most extreme abortion law in America, maybe the world, should put an end to any talk about national office.
Colorado’s new law doesn’t merely allow abortion of viable babies, for any reason, until crowning; it makes eugenic arguments about the “social, moral, and economic benefits” of not having children, as if any law or regulation compels anyone to do so. The debate, lest it be repeated, is over when life is worth protecting. According to Colorado, which has no fetal-protection laws either, an unborn baby is never considered a life — so you can stop playing them that Baby Mozart.
Colorado’s new maximalist law not only ignores scientific and moral questions surrounding viability — which even Casey and Roe dealt with — it preventatively ensures that a “fetus does not have independent or derivative rights under the laws of the state,” stripping the unborn of any legal protection, in any circumstance. (Yes, third-trimester abortions are “rare.” Only around 10,000 of them are performed every year — so not rare enough. Warren Hern has been aborting completely viable babies in Boulder for decades; and surely, with even fewer restrictions, there will be another degenerate to take his place when he’s gone.)
The Colorado law also conflates the termination of an inconvenient life with a “fundamental right to use or refuse contraception,” a privilege no one is challenging. Treating abortion as if it holds the same societal cost and moral weight as buying a condom at CVS demonstrates the frivolous attitude the Left has taken, despite the law’s perfunctory pablum about it being a “serious decision” that should “remain between a person, their doctor, and their faith.”
Then again, the bill also betrays a frivolous radicalism by adopting pseudoscientific woke language. It refers to “pregnant individual(s)” rather than women.
Most headlines regarding the law were along the lines of “Colorado governor signs bill codifying the right to abortion in state law,” when a more precise wording would be “Colorado governor signs law codifying abortion under any circumstance until crowning.” Hiding the intent of abortion laws, pro or con, has become a political compulsion of the media. Why? Because since 1973, Gallup has found that the number of Americans who believe abortion should be legal “under any circumstance” remains between 22% and 34%. Yet this is the position of the contemporary Democratic Party (which is more predisposed to making exceptions for post-birth abortions than limiting late-term procedures). Nearly every poll that asks voters about post-viable abortions finds that they are deeply unpopular. That fact alone doesn’t make the procedure right or wrong. (It remains a homicide with or without democratic support.) But you would never know it from the coverage.
In the late ’60s, Colorado became the first state to decriminalize abortion in some cases. In the late ’70s, Colorado became the first state to set aside government funds to pay for abortions. In the early 2020s, Colorado became the first state to codify the individual right to an abortion up until the moment of birth for any reason. And Polis, the alleged reasonable Democrat, has his signature on the bill.
David Harsanyi is a senior writer at National Review and author of “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.” To read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
“According to Colorado, which has no fetal-protection laws either,
an unborn baby is never considered a life —
In the early 2020s, Colorado became the first state to codify the individual right to an abortion up until the moment of birth for any reason. And Polis, the alleged reasonable Democrat, has his signature on the bill.”
To say that deciding to have an abortion is a ‘hard choice’ implies a debate about whether the fetus should live or be killed, thereby endowing it with a status of being.”
Substitute the terms “Christian” in place of “fetus” and you have roughly the satanic Democrat Party’s code of conduct unfolding now in the U.S.A.. 🙁 🙁 🙁
And supposedly they also allow assisted suicides.. SO THEY REALLY don’t care about life, in that rotted state.
“The Colorado law also conflates the termination of an inconvenient life . . .”
The taking of life has just about become business as usual in this country. Criminals indiscriminately kill anyone for any reason—even for no reason—babies, young, middle-age, and old. Facilities catering to senior care will analyze the cost of care in relation to the patient’s condition and expected life expectancy. Abortionists have pushed upwards theirwillingness to take life—even after the baby is born. In Ukraine, we see the ruthless Vladimir Putin take out men, women, and children.
An inconvenient life. One day we’re wanted cnad cherished—the next, we are expendable.
8 Cain told this to his brother Abel. And when they were in the field, Cain stood up against his brother Abel and killed him.
9 Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” 10 The Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying to Me from the ground. Genesis 4
Colorado sold itself out to California and New York transplants long ago and now it’s the freak show of the Rockies. It’s become a hopeless case just like New York and California and just a matter of time before the mass exodus starts there. Those counties in eastern Colorado that wanted to be a separate state about 10 years ago should consider doing what the eastern counties of Oregon are doing, voting to leave the “tranny mother state” and join a neighboring state. The eastern Oregonians are voting to join Idaho. Eastern Coloradoans could ither join Wyoming or Nebraska. When a state turns to manure it’s time to get the heck out of there one way or another.
I’d LOVE to see the red areas of Coloradistan, seceed and join Nebraska or Wyoming…
Ituser, those of us too near to blue cities or counties no doubt wish we could become part of neighboring counties not so DNC controlled. Maybe Southern Pueblo County isn’t so blue and could divorce itself from Pueblo and be called Northern Huerfano County? Maybe those of us in Pueblo West could maybe petition to join Fremont or Custer Counties? The majority of Eastern Colorado Counties definitely might be much better off politically with Kansas or Nebraska. I’m remembering a columnist with the local paper The Pueblo Chieftain back when a family owned it for generations and it was definitely moderate Republican (now it’s part of Gannet/USA TODAY…i.e. hugely leftist). That writer did a column about the Southern part of at least Pueblo County succeeding from the main county and becoming its own entity simply because of the local political machine was off its rocker and it’s only gotten worse!
Wilddog, when I came to Colorado from my native Western PA November of ’70 courtesy of Uncle Sam’s Travel Plan, Colorado was very solid RED. Growth was on the minds of everyone. After Ft. Carson I married and we wound up in very blue Pueblo County or at least the city of Pueblo was dyed-in-the-wool blue. Eventually 24 years ago we escaped Pueblo’s clutches and have been in Pueblo West since. Sadly watching the deterioration of the beautiful state into blue. At least the major populated counties in and around Denver, Pueblo and a “blue snake” up through the mountain resort towns. Sadly the majority population of those areas have rendered the state politically blue. The rest of the counties appear to still be solid red. When I came to Colorado, the popular bumper sticker was “Don’t Californicate Colorado”. Sadly, that Californication has been solidified.