The Left's Pro-Abortion Extremism 

We have been arguing for decades that defending life is not only morally right, but it is a popular position issue too. It doesn't hurt with the youth vote. It doesn't hurt with women. In fact, it is the left, not the right, that holds extremist views on abortion, completely outside the main stream.

For example, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was on CNN this week. Wolf Blitzer asked her if it was "OK, from your perspective, to kill a 7-pound baby in uterus? Is that your position?" She responded that it was a matter of "personal liberty." 

That is an extreme position held by a small percentage of the American people. Polling shows that Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to abortion after the first trimester. 

Here's another question for those on the left: "You claim to be pro-women, but as you surely know in societies like communist China there is a shortage of girls being born because girls are not valued as much as boys. It is legal in America to abort a baby solely because of its gender. Do you support sex-selection abortions?" 

Lincoln And Life 

Yesterday marked the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Lincoln understood the inherent injustice of the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision, which declared that some human beings were property with no rights society was obligated to respect.

The Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade repeated Dred Scott's terrible idea. It declared that there was another category of human beings -- unborn children -- who had no rights we were obligated to respect. 

Slavery was a violation of America's promise that all are created equal. Lincoln worried that the Civil War would last until God had extracted as much blood from the North and the South as had the slave master's lash. 

The ripped flesh and broken bones of a million abortions a year is also a violation of America's promise that we are endowed by our Creator with the unalienable right to life. I pray our political leaders can muster the courage of Abraham Lincoln and end abortion-on-demand. 

With your continued prayers and support, I promise to fight, so long as God gives me breath, for the day when all of our children are welcomed into the world and protected under the law. 

The Inevitability Question 

Conventional wisdom tells us that Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush are the inevitable candidates. They've got the names, the establishment support and the money. The Republican Party certainly has a history of picking the so-called inevitable, establishment candidate. But 2016 could be different.

A new poll of New Hampshire Republicans finds Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is now the clear frontrunner. Walker received 24% support, while his closest competitor, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, was ten points behind at 14%. Jeb Bush was fourth at 10%. 

While Hillary Clinton led the Democratic primary, her numbers were strikingly low. Just 45% of Democratic primary voters preferred Hillary Clinton, while 23% backed Elizabeth Warren. Among independent voters (who can vote in either major party primary) Clinton barely edged Warren -- 31% to 28%. 

It is still very early yet. Who knows what will happen. Perhaps we will see a Walker/Warren race in 2016. 

Netanyahu Warns The World 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu observed Holocaust Remembrance Day by warning the world not to repeat the mistakes of the past. Here are excerpts of his speech at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem: 
 

"In the years before World War II, the free world tried to appease the Nazi regime, to gain its trust, to curry its favor through gestures. There were those who warned that this concessionary policy would only whet Hitler's appetite, but these warnings were ignored due to the natural human desire for calm at all costs. 

"And indeed, the price was exacted not long after, and it was too heavy to bear -- six million of our people were slaughtered in the Holocaust, and millions of others were killed in this terrible inferno.

"Just as the Nazis aspired to crush civilization and to establish a 'master race' to replace it and control the world while annihilating the Jewish people, so too does Iran strive to gain control over the region, from which it would spread further, with the explicit intent of obliterating the Jewish state. . . . 

"The determination and lessons that were acquired through blood seventy years ago are now dissipating, and the darkness and fog of denying reality are taking their place. The bad deal that is being made with Iran demonstrates that the historic lesson has not been internalized. 

"The West is yielding in the face of Iran's aggressive actions. . . . The superpowers turn a deaf ear to the crowds in Iran shouting: 'Death to America; Death to Israel.' They turn a blind eye to the executions of those who oppose the regime and of members of minority populations. And they hold their peace in the face of the massive arming of terrorist organizations. . . . 

"Democratic governments made a critical mistake before World War II, and we are convinced . . . that they are making a grave mistake now too. . . . 

"Seventy years ago we were war refugees, powerless and voiceless. Today . . . we are determined to safeguard our existence and our future. It is our duty to fight those who wish to destroy us, not to bow down to them or to downplay reality. We will not allow the State of Israel to be a passing episode in the history of our people. . . . The nation of Israel, which has arisen from the hellfire, is ready for any challenge. 

"'Shake thyself from the dust; put on thy beautiful garments, my people.' The eternal nation has shaken itself from the dust, returned home, stood tall, established an outstanding country. . . We will remember those who were murdered, we will guarantee life."