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Some people were less than thrilled with Ted Cruz\u2019s Iowa primary victory<\/a>, and not just his presidential competitors. Both Planned Parenthood and fellow Republican Lindsey Graham reacted by taking potshots at him, albeit for different reasons. Well, somewhat different, anyway.<\/p>\n

Planned Parenthood fired off<\/a> a series of tweets complaining that Cruz\u2019s \u201cvision for America would be a nightmare for women,\u201d he \u201csupported TX HB2 bill, the anti-abortion law that has already shut down more than 1\/2 the providers in the state,\u201d he\u2019s \u201cso against your rights, he’d add a \u2018personhood\u2019 amendment to constitution, banning abortion & some\u201d birth control, and most hilariously, claiming Cruz \u201cdoesn\u2019t know how birth control works\u201d because he quipped<\/a> that the War on Women is \u201cnonsense\u201d because \u201cLast I checked we don\u2019t have a rubber shortage in America.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyone who may be genuinely worried by Planned Parenthood\u2019s propaganda, I can assure you that Ted Cruz does indeed know that condoms aren\u2019t the only form of birth control out there. This line was something known as \u201chumor,\u201d to emphasize the point he was making: \u201cI have been a conservative my entire life; I have never met anybody \u2014 any conservative \u2014 who wants to ban contraceptives,\u201d and for pro-aborts to claim otherwise was merely a ploy to get some Republicans<\/a> to \u201ccurl up in a ball\u201d and \u201csay \u2018don\u2019t hurt me!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Cruz is right, but even if a man recognized as “brilliant” even by professors who despised his ideas<\/a> was somehow so ignorant that he didn\u2019t know about the existence of the pill or IUDs, the fact remains that birth control is far more available and affordable<\/a> than Planned Parenthood wants you to think, making the \u201cneed\u201d for them to bully everyone from businesses<\/a> to nuns<\/a> to subsidize it nonexistent (in addition to lethal<\/a> for some methods).<\/p>\n

The other tweets are more of the same, banal fear-mongering over the legal ramifications of personhood<\/a>, the need to hold abortionists accountable for their medical negligence<\/a>, and general fantasies that Cruz is attacking women\u2019s rights with nary a baby in sight to protect, so let\u2019s turn our attention to Senator Graham, who despite being pro-life(-ish<\/a>) frets<\/a> that Cruz is too<\/em> pro-life (a charge he\u2019s leveled before<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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He doesn\u2019t have an exception for rape and incest. If a woman is raped in Ted Cruz\u2019s world, she\u2019s going to have the baby of the rapist. I\u2019m pro-life, but I won\u2019t go there.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Oh, and so is Marco Rubio:<\/p>\n

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And Marco has no exceptions for rape and incest. I may be wrong and I hope I\u2019m wrong, but I think it\u2019s going to be very hard to grow the party among women if you\u2019re going to tell young women if you get raped, you got to carry the child of the rapist. Most pro-life people don\u2019t go there. That will not sell in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Graham preference for exceptions is wrong on principle<\/a> and his strategic fears are unfounded<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Morally, children conceived in rape need and deserve our protection just as much as those conceived consensually do. That doesn\u2019t mean we have to demand every bill save every baby at once, because there\u2019s no shame in doing whatever good is feasible at the moment<\/a> and striving to do the rest when you can. It does, however, mean we have to set the stage for that day to come with rhetoric that actively reminds people that an innocent child\u2019s humanity doesn\u2019t depend on a father\u2019s evil. Dodging the issue by accepting an exception instead gives the double-standard our tacit affirmation. There is no reason a competent pro-life statesman can\u2019t stand for such children’s rights and show compassion to their mothers<\/a> at the same time.<\/p>\n

Strategically, Graham seems not to have noticed that pro-lifers\u2019 enemies say the same things about us<\/a> no matter how far backward we bend to seem more reasonable, or that such scare campaigns are often less effective than assumed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yes, the latest polling data<\/a> does show that only 25% of the public is willing to ban abortions in cases of rape or incest. But where is it written that this is the only \u201cextreme\u201d view to be concerned about? The data also shows that support for elective abortion past the first trimester is even smaller at 20%, and support for elective abortion through all nine months is smaller still at just 13%.<\/p>\n

The list continues\u2014only 17% believe the abortion lobby\u2019s line that protecting pregnant women and protecting preborn children are mutually exclusive, only 29% agree with taxpayer funding for abortion, and only 35% oppose a 20-week abortion ban.<\/p>\n

But despite holding a variety of radical abortion stances nearly as, equally, or even more lacking in support than banning abortion for rape cases, Democratic politicians virtually never lecture each other about being too extreme for the general public. Instead, they just steadily<\/a>\u00a0become more extreme<\/a> as the years go by.<\/p>\n

So maybe, just maybe, political victories aren\u2019t decided by which candidates hold the most fringe positions, but which candidates are better at debunking such fears and changing the conversation to focus on the other guy\u2019s extremes\u2026like Ted Cruz himself displayed a knack for in the very contraception speech we talked about above. Instead of cowering at the dreaded mention of a War on Women, Cruz laughed it off, quickly explained why it was false, and called it for what it was\u2014a distraction:<\/p>\n

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Hillary Clinton embraces abortion on demand in all circumstances up until the moment of birth, partial-birth abortion with taxpayer funding, with no notice for parents in any circumstances. Ninety-one percent of Americans say \u201cThat\u2019s nuts.\u201d [note: I think he means 81%<\/a> – CF]<\/em> So what do they do? They try to shift it \u2014 The \u2018War on Women\u2019 wasn\u2019t [about abortion,] it was contraceptives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

There are of course many good points and negatives about every candidate on abortion (and every other issue) that pro-lifers should decide for themselves, but it seems safe to say that Lindsey Graham\u2019s fears of Ted Cruz being unable to sell common-sense pro-life principles are unfounded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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