Opinion: Trump’s slander doesn’t enlighten the abortion debate. It obscures it.
By Michael Gerson Michael Gerson Columnist Email Bio Follow Columnist April 29 at 4:44 PM For a conservative idea, few things are more dangerous and discrediting than the full-on, smothering embrace of President Trump. When he forces himself upon an issue — grabbing it, as it were, by the policy prescription — his approach is familiar. He seizes on a half-heard contention, simplifies it beyond recognition and delivers it with the subtlety and precision of a shotgun blast.
If anyone has the right to be angry with the president, it is Sen. Ben Sasse ; his legislation, the “Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act ,” helped provoke the current confrontation. And Sasse is neither simplistic nor irresponsible in pressing his case. The Sasse bill seems designed to operate in this very narrow space. Would it outlaw abortions after 24 weeks ? No, the legislation has nothing to do with the conditions in which an abortion can be obtained. It covers only infants born alive after an abortion is tried. Would the legislation force a mother and doctor to give pointless health care to an infant born at 21 weeks? No, it covers cases where abortion is attempted, not tragic cases of loss on the edge of viability.
The stronger argument is that existing federal and state law already covers almost all such cases. The infamous abortionist Kermit Gosnell, after all, was already tried and convicted as a child killer under Pennsylvania law.
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