That Confusing Morality Thing

Hillary Clinton's drive to the middle on abortion rights -- calling it "a sad, even tragic choice" -- was doomed to be short-lived. It is still impossible for a Democrat to stray far from the pro-death party line, and for Hillary the requisite move from the middle did not take long.

As the New York Post reported yesterday:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is putting the brakes on her move to the political middle by opposing legislation that would bar helping underage girls cross state lines for an abortion without their parents' consent.

Clinton - despite preaching moderation in recent speeches - will toe the Democratic line in the Senate in an effort to block a GOP-backed bill that just passed the House and makes it illegal for anyone to help a girl get a secret out-of-state abortion.

Hillary appears to be forgetting that she's running for the presidential nomination of the party of Amy Richards. Richards, as you may recall, is the abortion activist and former Planned Parenthood exec who, when finding she was pregnant with triplets decided to abort two of the fetuses. Triplets are just too much hassle, so two of 'em have got to go.

Hillary's announcement of her search for common ground garnered hundreds of Nexis hits; I doubt that her coddling back up to the abortionists will draw a tenth as many. But even with the help of the media, Hillary and the Dems will still be caught in the morality trap.

As the Dems move farther left and the abortion debate moves from "simple" abortion to late term and selective abortions, it will become increasing difficult for Dems to get their arms around that confusing morality thing.