Perhaps Sen_JoeManchin is afraid that, within his party's activists and primary voters, there is now a threat to his political career because his pro-life stance might actually entail something beyond lip-service, writes Freddoso.
“I am deeply disappointed that the Supreme Court has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade," reads a statement from Sen. Joe Manchin, the supposedly pro-life Democrat from West Virginia. What follows is an incoherent statement that gets everything backward from what a moderate on the abortion issue ought to say.
Is Manchin saying things like this because he is worried about a primary challenge in 2024? I can't imagine any other reason he would stake out such a position. Manchin said that, as a Catholic, he was “raised pro-life and will always consider myself pro-life. But I have come to accept that my definition of pro-life may not be someone else’s definition of pro-life. I believe that exceptions should be made in instances of rape, incest, and when the life of the mother is in jeopardy."
First of all, the correct acknowledgment by Justices John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett that Roe was a"settled legal precedent" at the time of their confirmations never constituted an endorsement of the decision, let alone a pledge to uphold it. Some precedents are just wrong and need to be unsettled — otherwise, we'd still be living under Plessy v. Ferguson, which would be ridiculous.
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