Democrats are so singularly focused on abortion that the party is now arguing that the First Amendment dictates that Planned Parenthood must be given taxpayer funding.

Democratic attorneys general from 23 states are suing the Trump administration over defunding Planned Parenthood, emboldened by a liberal activist judge who has ordered that funding continue. California Attorney General and candidate for governor Rob Bonta characterized it as follows: “We need to just call it what it is: punishment for Planned Parenthood’s constitutionally protected advocacy for abortion. The hypocrisy is really hard to ignore: a party that claims to be defenders of free speech only seem to care about it when it aligns with their own agenda.”

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To be clear on what actually happened, Congress voted to defund Planned Parenthood for one measly year. This is a rare example of Congress doing its job rather than relying on the president to usurp its powers through an executive order because passing laws is too difficult. Congress exercised its constitutional powers to decide to stop funding Planned Parenthood (for just a single year), passed a law, and sent it to Trump’s desk for a signature.

What Democrats are arguing is that this violates the First Amendment, because the Republicans who control Congress defunded Planned Parenthood because it is an unofficial Democratic campaign organ. The abortion mill funnels tens of millions of dollars to Democratic campaigns and causes. As Bonta argued, Democrats view this as retaliation against Planned Parenthood.

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This argument is deranged, an attack on the very fabric that holds our political system together. If Democrats have their way, they can funnel funds to any and all left-wing organizations they want, but Republicans removing those funds even temporarily would be “retaliating” against the speech of those left-wing groups and therefore be blocked from doing so. The argument posits that there is no legitimate way that a Republican-run Congress could cut funding for any group, and that only a Democratic majority in Congress would be able to exercise the branch’s power of the purse.

Planned Parenthood does not have a First Amendment right to taxpayer funding. It is not a First Amendment violation for a Republican-run Congress to choose not to fund an abortion mill. Democrats again want to light the Constitution on fire so that they can get everything they want and prevent Republicans from ever legitimately exercising any form of power. Once again, the “threat to democracy” is coming from the Democratic Party itself.