An abortion battle in Florida is highlighting the particular challenge not just for pro-lifers,

but for all conservatives and Republicans in November. Florida currently bans virtually all abortions after six weeks.

If you think it's wrong to murder babies, then this law still isn't perfect, but it's pretty good

relative to many other states, which permit infanticide up until the moment of birth.

Florida Democrats, however, are trying to change all of that through a ballot measure in November

called Amendment 4, which would permit abortion all the way up to 24 weeks. It's a measure that is

unfortunately both barbaric and like so many other pro-abortion ballot measures

in recent years likely to pass.

Because Floridians, despite voting reliably Republican in recent years,

strongly support abortion.

According to Pew research, 56% of Floridians believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases,

while only 39% say it should be illegal in all or most cases, and 5% say they don't know.

Democrats know those numbers and while they do sincerely want to kill more babies

they are also using the abortion issue instrumentally to get their

presidential candidate elected. The abortion issue motivates their base to

show up, especially in a year when the nominee has nothing else to run on.

And what's so interesting about this issue in this election is that the Republicans

are in the opposite situation.

Republicans need to defeat Amendment 4 because it's so horrific.

But the only way they're going to defeat Amendment 4 is to use the presidential election instrumentally to get the ballot measured defeated. The presidential

contest motivates their base to show up. It's a political paradox we haven't

seen before because this is the first presidential election since the Supreme Court overruled Rovi Wade.

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