In Kamala Harris’s new campaign memoir, her love note to her husband, Doug Emhoff, is, frankly, creepy. It’s rooted in abortion.
It’s perverse. The idea that we would have as our first president of the United States a woman who is for more abortion, not less. Kamala Harris stood in an abortion clinic during her time as vice president — a first for the executive branch. May it be a last, too.
In her new campaign memoir, Kamala Harris’s love note to her husband, Doug Emhoff, is, frankly, creepy. It’s rooted in abortion. She describes a campaign event he did for her at an abortion clinic:
As I was delivering my speech in Milwaukee, Doug was in McLean, Virginia, for an event that had long been on his schedule: a roundtable with people affected by the Dobbs decision, held at a reproductive health clinic that had opened in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. It was serving not only Virginians, but also rising numbers forced to travel from states with abortion bans. Since Dobbs, Doug had made it a big part of his role to talk to men about why the crisis of reproductive freedom was an issue for all of us, not only women. He was determined to keep the clinic on his schedule to highlight what he termed “the post-Dobbs hellscape.”
I’d respectfully submit that we would be much better off as a culture if men cherished the gift that is women, and that hell is subjecting women and girls to the horror of abortion, the most intimate violence.
There are some on the Interwebs, or whatever the virtual world that rules us is called now, incensed that Charlie Kirk said in (I think more than one) hypotheticals that he would encourage a ten-year-old pregnant rape victim to have the child. Because we don’t do evil for evil. When pressed on if it was his daughter, he insisted we don’t kill the weak in our family.
That’s a different kind of leadership than we’re used to. It’s absurdly inappropriate as always to find the most extreme scenario and look to apply it to a person’s own family. But a man who wants to protect women and the weak and realizes abortion is from the pits of hell — the woman he is married to would make something of a first woman president. It’s way early, but you can see a longing for a voice like Erika Kirk’s on these cultural issues. It’s okay to know what is a man and what is a woman and fight for their right to be and flourish fruitfully. Enough with the culture of death. May there be a radical openness to life and common sense about the human person.
Our hearts are restless. And they were not looking for the muddled moral mess of the Harris world. I do hope she sees some of why she wasn’t elected in her extremism on abortion. The goodness of our country is that we’ve never been comfortable with it. And it’s not politics that is going to launch us into a more loving approach to life, it’s the culture, and it starts with every family, every pregnancy, every life.