Jared Polis is often portrayed as a rational liberal whom the Democratic Party would be wise to emulate. A Bulwark writer recently argued that the Colorado governor was a “model of how you can build a coalition of the normal and decent.” It’s true that Polis was one of the first Democrats to shed the hysterical federal Covid regime. And his occasional pushback against fringe progressive economic ideas — the norm among Western Democrats not that long ago — certainly makes him seem less radical. Yet his support for what is likely the most extreme abortion law in America, maybe the world, should put an end to any talk about national office.
Colorado’s new law doesn’t merely allow abortion of viable babies, for any reason, until crowning; it makes eugenic arguments about the “social, moral, and economic benefits” of not having children, as if any law or regulation compels anyone to do so. The debate, lest it be repeated, is over when life is worth protecting. According to Colorado, which has no fetal-protection laws, either, an unborn baby is never considered a life — so you can stop playing them that Baby Mozart.
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