Josh Stein, the Democrat running for governor in North Carolina, is running a particular commercial about every ten minutes. It features Mark Robinson, his extremist Republican opponent, saying that abortion would not be necessary if women would be responsible and keep their skirts down. The commercial is getting a bit tiresome at this point, but it is extremely effective. What does that tell us?
That insulting over half the electorate probably isn’t a good idea. That abortion is still a big issue. And that most of the anti-abortion movement is more driven by the desire to punish what it views as inappropriate sexual conduct by women than by any wish to protect fetuses, as I’ve noted on many previous occasions.
In other words, the right continues to believe that the wages of sin is birth.