The conservative obsession with birth control and abortion

It’s misplaced, it’s wrong, and there is no moral high ground

It didn’t take long. In the very first press conference of the new administration, the subject was broached by the Catholic news network, (EWTN) on where Joe Biden stands on the Hyde Amendment and the Mexico City Policy — the pro-life policies designed to keep taxpayer dollars from funding abortions either at home or abroad.

The following day, another conservative leaning columnist asked if “the president is going to try to pull back religious conscience exemptions,” citing the case of the Little Sisters of the Poor who object to the requirement of including free birth control in their employee health care plan.

Attempting to place their concerns in the framework of Biden’s call to unify the nation, the question they suggested but did not ask is how can we have unity with intolerance to conservative Christian values?

Let me get this right.

The previous administration grossly mismanaged a pandemic, largely by denying it while worshiping the false gods of ‘free market’ solutions, and simultaneously geared up for an execution spree. They also fomented insurrection by lying about a free and fair election, but you want to talk about abortion?

Well, I don’t. With abortion there is no tenable middle ground. And this is why February 5 does not take a position on abortion.