The Far Left Makes a Last-Ditch Effort on Abortion

No matter how bad circumstances get for Americans, the far Left still wants you to think about abortion. They not only love abortion as a practice, but they also love it as a political talking point. Except, to date, the topic hasn’t stuck as well as they’d hoped (those pesky grocery prices!). So, with less than two months until Election Day and with scant media opportunities for Harris, the far Left used the debate to launch a last-ditch effort to force abortion back into the American conscience. Did you notice?

For a moment, ignore the fireworks from the debate. Both political parties claimed victory after both took their shots at creating viral “gotcha” moments while the host television network banked big ratings. However, after the buzz wears off and the debate dust settles, many undecided voters will still be left in a fog regarding the issues they care about. That’s because the candidates’ answers either lacked clarity or avoided the questions entirely.

What was clear, though, were the issues the moderators wanted voters to care about – primarily abortion.

As expected, the economy was front and center right out of the gate. Vice President Kamala Harris was asked if voters are better off now than when she and President Joe Biden were elected. We’re still waiting for her answer, but both sides traded their best barbs on the economy, and ABC News checked its first box.

Then the moderators, David Muir and Linsey Davis, took a hard pivot directly to abortion. Davis directed her first question of the night to Trump about the apparent shift in his pro-life position. Trump immediately took the opportunity to expose Kamala’s radical position:

Because they’re radical. The Democrats are radical [on abortion]. And her vice presidential pick, which I think was a horrible pick, by the way, for our country, because [Minnesota Governor Tim Walz] is really out of it. But her vice presidential pick says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine. He also says execution after birth, it’s execution, no longer abortion, because the baby is born, is okay.

Brilliant and indefensible. But predictably, Davis assisted with a questionable fact-check before handing it off to Harris, who immediately pivoted the narrative to include emotional pleas about miscarriages, Project 2025, and IVF treatments. To an objective audience paying attention, the line of questioning probably seemed misplaced. Or . . . was it?

A major weakness in Donald Trump’s political armor has been abortion – at least according to the far Left. The media has pounced on the GOP’s struggle to craft a message despite the historic win at the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. Recent polling has shown Harris edges Trump with women voters, and other reporting says abortion is women voters’ biggest concern. But what about all Americans?

Just one day before the debate, Pew Research showed abortion ranked in the bottom half of the list of concerns among Trump supporters. But more telling than that, abortion only ranked fourth on the list for Harris supporters, trailing health care, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the economy (again . . . those pesky grocery prices!).

So the moderators covered the economy, though mostly with softball questions. Then abortion was second, with hard-liner questions aimed directly at Trump. All this before a single question was asked about the immigration crisis destroying small towns across America, the unending wars in Ukraine and Israel, and the surging prices of almost everything.

In fact, by my count – thanks to the ABC debate transcript – the word inflation was mentioned just 11 times. Nine times by Donald Trump. Twice by Kamala Harris (including a mention of the Inflation Reduction Act). And zero times by the moderators. So why is abortion given such preferential treatment?

Even amateur political sleuths can tell you the far Left doesn’t have much solid ground to stand on when arguing general issues. So they don’t. Abortion might be the only exception where the far Left’s base is energized. So they push it to the front – and hope their last-ditch effort works on November 5.

This is why the ACLJ is working tirelessly to defend life across the nation. Because if the debate taught us anything, it is that regardless of how the election pans out, the fight for life will outlive any political news cycle.