I appreciate a good turn of phrase, and that’s a doozy.

Some important points — “pro-choice” numbers are down (not the majority and have not been for over two decades) and the designation no longer means what it once did.

Even a majority of Dems do not favor abortion with no restrictions.

My take — If anything, blacks and Hispanics who have begun to seriously consider voting for the GOP are not generally socially liberal. Seeing the Democrats assault the barricades in Banzai charges for abortion all year will likely convince a lot of Catholic Hispanics that they are making the right move in changing over to the GOP.

I am prochoice and, as a resident in training did abortions in California when it was legal(1969). I do support limits and the 15 week law seems appropriate. I am opposed to an absolute ban as I had many experiences with illegal abortions as a Medical student and intern.

What I don’t like is someone like a young woman I saw as a patient who was a graduate student at UCSB and told me she had had 7 abortions.

I need to shake off my political pessimism!

The impact on the November election will be minimal. According to some Democrat strategists any lift from the reversal of Roe v Wade will be at the margins. What they really need to turn the voting tide in their favor is for inflation to go away.

1. All the recent polls I’ve seen have shown support for abortion on the downswing. I don’t think unfettered access to abortion has nearly the support it used to. Even people who support abortion believe there should be some restrictions on it and no one believes that most, or even many, of the conservative states will ban it outright.

2. The outrage is coming from the extremes of the left. It only seems universal because the media and social media is amplifying it. Where have the protests and demonstrations been? In places where there’s no chance the state will place any restrictions on abortion…so what are they screaming about? The ability to dictate their agenda onto states they don’t even live in. It may translate into even larger margins of victory for democrats in areas they were already guaranteed victory, but will it change the outcome in closer races? I’m not so sure about that.

But, in the words of eminent American Philosopher Yogi Berra “making predictions is hard…especially about the future.”

No, because they got there organically.

Roe was imposed on us by judicial fiat, without going thru the…wait for it…democratic process of hashing things out in the legislative process. Then there are the advances in science.

When does a clump of cells have…a heart beat? and is, by way of DNA, distinctive? Also, the Euros for the most post restrict *OMG* abortion at 12 weeks.