In a New Orleans Advocate article of 8/14/19 by Elizabeth Crisp, a Washington correspondent reported that a quarter of Louisiana residents polled by the nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute say they oppose abortion, even in cases of rape and incest a rate higher than any other state in the poll. Those numbers are not surprising to this writer and tell the story why the republicans who have been attacking the abortion decision Roe vs. Wade for the past 40 plus years are cowards on the issue.
The cowards know the only way to change the supreme court's decision is by a constitutional amendment but do not have the courage or character to campaign on the issue because enough states would vote against such amendment. So they try the cowards way out by states passing their own anti abortion laws that get thrown out by the federal district courts.
Louisiana has its own cowards who recently passed anti abortion legislation and tried to escape responsibility by making it effective only if Mississippi's similar law is upheld by the court. The little baby legislature needed a crutch to lean on, they could not stand up on the issue alone like a man. Those elected officials who are afraid of a constitutional amendment are fearful for one big reason. A constitutional amendment is decided by the popular vote, and cowards hate the popular vote. And we know the big coward, President Trump still hates the fact that Hillary Clinton won the popular vote in the 2016 Presidential election.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
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