About a week ago, I posted on "Why the Far Left Will Become Extinct". It was conjecture based on a comment I read in the Chicago Tribune.
Well, today a good friend of my husband's emailed him a link that buttresses that post. Apparently, James Taranto over at Best of the Web has written about this before, and calls it "The Roe Effect".
Here's a quote from one of his articles on the topic:
Not all women, after all, are equally likely to have abortions. It's almost a truism that women who have abortions are more pro-choice than those who carry their pregnancies to term, and it stands to reason that they generally have more-liberal attitudes about sex and religion. It also seems reasonable to assume that parents have some influence on their children, so that if liberal women are having abortions, the next generation will be more conservative than it otherwise would be.The article linked above supports the argument with data on the abortion rate and ratio in Red vs. Blue States.
Many thanks to my husband's friend for the link. I hadn't read Taranto's work before, and I should have.
Still, this seems like one of those arguments that you almost hate to be right about. It's just so sad to think of the 40 million people who aren't here, because of Roe v. Wade.
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Those aborted since Roe V. Wade in 1973 through November of 1986 would be of voting age. Ironically, if many of those babies did in fact tend to turn out to be liberals, how many more votes would the Democrats have had in this election?
Of course, since abortion is one of the most significant issues dividing the two political sides, if we were all agreed that abortion was illegal and the issue were off the political table, the stakes in this election, with several possible Supreme Court appointments pending, wouldn't have been as high. Of course there were still other significant differences between the candidates and parties..
But that makes little sense since that fundamental change would mean that liberals wouldn't be liberals anymore.
TJS
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