Maybe SenatorDurbin has always supported legal abortion and he only decided after that 1989 letter that he didn't need to keep up the pretense anymore for his downstate constituents, writes Freddoso. 'Maybe someday he will truthfully explain why.'
Sen. Mike Lee brilliantly put Sen. Dick Durbin on the spot this week during a hearing on the consequences of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. It was a pretty clever move. He produced a copy of a constituent letter Durbin had sent in 1989. In that letter, Durbin pledged his support for overturning Roe v. Wade. At that point, he was a centrist congressman from downstate Illinois and at least talked a pretty good pro-life game, as many Democrats did in those days.
The point Lee made is a smart one. It is not that politicians can never change their views. It is that they cannot change them and then honestly pretend to be outraged or horrified by the fact that someone holds views they once strongly espoused. Had Durbin really thought about abortion rights so little back then that he can pretend to be horrified now?
“I sat down with two young women who were about to turn 18, one a victim of incest, one a victim of rape, and they told me their stories. I didn’t ask them to, but they wanted to tell me. I left that meeting with a kind of understanding that I had never had before about the complexity of the decision behind the abortion procedure,” Durbin said.
Except hey, wait a second. If Durbin was pro-life before and then he was convinced that abortion was necessary because of rape and incest cases, then you would expect Durbin to support something like a ban on abortion with exceptions for the rare cases of rape and incest.
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