CNN\u2019s Dana Bash wants you to remember a very important feature of Roe v. Wade: It keeps poor kids from being born.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Bash was interviewing Arkansas GOP Gov. Asa Hutchinson on \u201cState of the Union<\/a>\u201d about a law he signed in 2019 that would ban abortion if Roe v. Wade was overturned, including only an exception for the life of the mother.<\/p>\n (As the Supreme Court nears its decision<\/a> on a case that could potentially overturn Roe v. Wade, The Western Journal will be providing the news and analysis you need to know \u2014 all from a Christian, conservative perspective you won\u2019t find in the mainstream media. If you support our coverage, please consider subscribing<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Arkansas is one of 13 states<\/a> that have so-called \u201ctrigger laws\u201d \u2014 legislation that would ban abortion should the decision be returned to the states by the Supreme Court. If the court\u2019s final opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health looks anything like the draft opinion leaked by Politico earlier in the month, that\u2019s set to change \u2014 and you can bet the media\u2019s ire will quickly turn from the conservative justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade to the governors of these states.<\/p>\n On Sunday, we got a preview of the kind of treatment they\u2019ll get.<\/p>\n First off, Bash pressed Hutchinson over the lack of exception for rape and incest in Arkansas\u2019 trigger law. Hutchinson said he supported a clause for rape and incest but conceded that it might not get through the legislature. (Of course, abortions due to rape and incest are rare \u2014 and it\u2019s unlikely Bash or anyone else who raises this point would support the bill aside from this.)<\/p>\n Next, she said she wanted \u201cto ask broadly about the responsibility of men here\u201d and asked if Hutchinson was \u201cgoing to change the system in Arkansas to hold men equally responsible for the children they\u2019re bringing into the world\u201d via paternity tests and court proceedings. Hutchinson said they would work to \u201cspeed up the system\u201d should it be feasible and would make \u201csure that there\u2019s the assistance that\u2019s needed.\u201d<\/p>\n So there are those two shopworn arguments, still not that great after all these years. Bash\u2019s third argument: Does Arkansas<\/a>\u00a0really<\/em> need more poor kids?<\/p>\n \u201cArkansas already struggles to support vulnerable children. Nearly one in four children in Arkansas lives in poverty. More than 4,600 kids are already in your state\u2019s overloaded foster care system,\u201d Bash said.<\/p>\n \u201cDo you really think that your state is prepared to protect and care for even more children if abortion does become illegal there?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Hutchinson<\/a> noted they\u2019d \u201chad historic challenges with poverty in Arkansas.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut you\u2019re talking about access to health care. Under my leadership, we continued the Medicaid expansion. So, we have improved health care access in our state. We have increased the support for foster parents and foster children,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been a high priority. And so we\u2019re addressing those needs. Obviously, there\u2019s always opportunity to do more. And we have to address this issue with compassion because of the difficult circumstances and the fact that you\u2019re dealing with the most vulnerable of our population.\u201d<\/p>\n While one understands Hutchinson was there to defend the law, not dismantle the ugliest aspects of the left\u2019s worldview, one can\u2019t help but wish Hutchinson had turned around and asked whether being poor makes an individual any more or less of a human life.<\/p>\n In fact, that could be said of all of Bash\u2019s objections to Arkansas\u2019 trigger law: Every single one is divorced from whether or not the unborn child is human life<\/a>. That\u2019s the whole raison d\u2019\u00eatre of the law, and the protection of unborn life isn\u2019t diminished if its the product of rape or incest, if it has a deadbeat father or if it\u2019s (heavens forbid) poor.<\/p>\n My guess is that this wouldn\u2019t fly on CNN, even if Bash had asked it: \u201cMr. Governor, your state has many poor families whose plight will be worse as their babies become toddlers. Shouldn\u2019t poor parents be allowed to kill their toddlers?\u201d<\/p>\n Should Roe v. Wade be overturned?<\/p>\n \nYes: 100% (2 Votes)\n<\/p>\n \nNo: 0% (0 Votes)\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Why, then, should this be allowed to stand? Is poor life worth less than middle- or upper-class life? Fathers should self-evidently take responsibility for their children, and if they refuse to, they should face societal repudiation and state intervention for the purposes of supporting the mother \u2014 but does that make a child with a delinquent parent any less of a child?<\/p>\n But that\u2019s the problem with the left\u2019s arguments \u2014 and why they try their darnedest to avoid the L-word. If they pretend it\u2019s a foregone conclusion that a fertilized, viable embryo isn\u2019t necessarily a human life until it exits the mother\u2019s womb \u2014 or at least until some vague point of \u201cviability<\/a>\u201d in between fertilization and birth, better later than sooner \u2014 they don\u2019t have to confront\u00a0why<\/em> abortion is a moral injustice, merely why outlawing the termination of the unborn could be inconvenient for women.<\/p>\n In doing so, however, Bash and others have revealed something about the leftist mindset: To them, an unborn child carried by a poor mother is intrinsically worth less than an unborn child carried by a wealthy mother. They can\u2019t say that out loud, mind you, but the subtext is as clear as day.<\/p>\n This article appeared originally on The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n We are committed to truth and accuracy in all of our journalism. 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