Democrats want federally mandated infanticide

Women in Britain will soon be able to kill their baby at any point during their pregnancy, even if the child could survive outside the womb. Infanticide is set to be the law of the land after British MPs voted 379 to 137 in favor of an amendment to end the criminalization of abortion after 24 weeks. The natural consequence of a slouched, “you do you” morality. 

Donald Trump called attention to the issue of unlimited abortion during his 2024 presidential debates, much to the media’s chagrin, who interceded desperately to disprove his claims about Democrats supporting “executions after birth.” But he was right. In 2019, former Virginia governor Ralph Northam, a Democrat, described a scenario during a radio interview where a newborn could be resuscitated and then left to the mother and doctors to decide next steps, or to put it plainly, execution after birth. Nine states plus the District of Columbia do not have any explicit gestational limits on abortion.

Now, in a chilling mirroring of the British law change, House Democrats have reintroduced the Women’s Health Protection Act, which would wipe clean the patchwork of state pro-life laws, replacing them with an abortion regime by federal decree. “We’re fighting to uphold the right to control your own body and your own future,” stated a press release issued by Democratic whip Representative Katherine Clark. Her bill ostensibly “restores reproductive freedom under the law, kicks politicians out of our doctors’ offices, and helps build an America that is truly worthy of our daughters.” This bill should send a shiver down Americans’ spines. It is far more radical than Roe v. Wade (and likely unconstitutional), as it would prevent states from imposing any restriction on abortion. With Democrats, it’s federally mandated infanticide all the way down. 

The left is doing what they always do – making it sound tidy. Rights, autonomy, freedom. No one mentions the unloving bureaucracy, the cold hospital corridors or the omnipresent cloud of gray dread in their death-on-demand dystopia.  

The push for abortion without limits is logical, considering that for the left any restriction is an implicit admission of wrongdoing. To invoke a limit requires arbitrary assessments of when life begins. Is it a human child at 24 weeks, but a lifeless clump of cells at 23 weeks six days? Nobody believes that. The comedian Louis CK keenly identified the tension in the abortion question. To paraphrase, abortion is something completely normal, like going to the bathroom – just getting rid of something unwanted from the body. Or it’s murdering a baby. It must be one of those two.

Democrats are stuck in a political rut. They’re moored by anti-Trumpism, unable to philosophize higher. Nobody knows what they stand for; they don’t even know. But while Republicans defend life – and champion the historic Western ethic long departed from Europe – Democrats fall in line with their liberal counterparts across the Atlantic. It wasn’t that long ago when Barack Obama signed an executive order reaffirming his support for preventing the federal funding of abortion. Not only would no high-ranking Democrat support such a measure today, but none can even articulate why there should be any restriction on abortion. 

The UK’s culture of death doesn’t stop there – they want to kill the sick and the elderly, too. The House of Commons just approved plans to legalize medically assisted dying for terminally ill patients in England and Wales. Euthanasia is now the fifth-leading cause of death in Canada – more than diabetes, liver disease and all transport deaths combined.

The White House has accused Britain of “state-sponsored suicide” over the bill. “As the UK Parliament considers support for state-subsidized suicide, euphemistically called a bill for ‘Terminally Ill Adults’, the United States reaffirms the sanctity of life. The western world should stand for life, vitality and hope over surrender and death.” The statement was posted on X by the arm of Marco Rubio’s State Department, responsible for foreign policy and diplomacy.

Americans ought to beware the rapid acceptance of state-sponsored death targeting the very old and the very young. Ten states have “Death with Dignity” laws, which are much more limited in scope than Canada’s and Europe’s euthanasia systems, encompassing patients with just months to live and notably excluding the mentally ill. 

The left’s culture of death crowns autonomy as the highest good. But to be a conservative is to recognize the good and to consider the natural order and conform yourself to it, even in the midst of hardship. The American mythos describes us as the city on a hill – a beacon to be seen by all nations. Let us embrace life so that we and our descendants may live.