Finally, Someone BIG in Anti Abortion is Recognizing it's About Raising Taxes

I've been writing here for a decade about why anti abortion zealots need to align themselves with Democrats instead of Republicans. Anti Abortion is a dead end when it is advocated by Republicans. It is a dead end because if abortion of all kinds in all places is outlawed, a more extreme position than reversing Roe, costs of raising children from unwanted pregnancies will inevitably land on tax payers. While he says this only indirectly, that is the message of pro life New York Times columnist, Ross Douthat. 

Anyone following this issue knows the pending issues. First, there is a case that is, or was, headed to the Supreme Court. The decision to rule on the case has been delayed. No one knows for certain why a decision to hear or not hear has not been forth coming. The case, if successful, would severely limit access to abortion. Some speculate the predicted opposition to abortion "promised" by Trump's appointments may not be there. Years ago I remember a pithy observation about Supreme Court Justices. The person said, "They read them polls." He meant justices are aware unpopular decisions will disrupt the country and may not prevail over a long period of time. In polls, more people favor allowing at least some abortions than favor no abortions. 

There can be no doubt that the political effort to overturn Roe has an even larger agenda. That agenda is to outlaw all abortion. There is serious talk of a Constitutional Amendment, the 14th, that would do just that. In the link, Douthat explains an amendment forcing large numbers of women to have unwanted babies carries with it a responsibility of the public to care, at least in part, for these children. This is an anathema to libertarian Republican politics. It believes in the most unlikely theory that women will not have babies if they are forced to care for them. Only the Democratic Party has a wing that is ready to raise taxes to support such children. 

The only path available to anti abortion politics is through the Democratic Party. Anti Abortion zealots need to join the Democrats and demand large subsidies for pregnant women and their children. This would tip the economic scales in favor of birth over abortion. Anti abortion might convince Democrats, as it has convinced Republicans, the party needs them to win. As time went on, the demand for abortions might dwindle and make laws against it less disruptive. Democrats could make anti abortion more successful than it has been under Republicans.

It has never made sense to have two opposing positions. One is less government, the other more government. By joining the Democrats anti abortion would solve this problem. It would advocate only more government but directed toward its religious ends. Plenty of those already in the Party, including myself, would appose this. But the balance of politics might overrule what I want.