Townhall Review with Hugh Hewitt

The Supreme Court announced last week that it would hear an abortion case coming from the state of Mississippi. The case is Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. The infamous abortion clinic in Jackson, Mississippi is challenging legislation that makes abortion illegal after the 15th week of a woman’s term. If the law is upheld, lives would be saved—lots of them. This is big news, it’s not necessarily the case that the court will reverse Roe v. Wade. I often refer to the cumulative case theory of the pro-life movement. That comes down to this: Pro-life legislation and pro-life lawyers working to erode Roe v. Wade step-by-step—law by law, restriction by restriction, court precedent by court precedent. Make no mistake, this case is huge and the president will be massive. The second issue is even more important: The Mississippi law and thus this particular Supreme Court case focuses on the life of the unborn child. That is the biggest issue here. We should watch and hope and pray for change from the courts. We also need to hope and work and pray for a change in human hearts.

Calling new Biden legislation an “infrastructure” plan is like calling a shark a dolphin. They both may have dorsal fins, but you mistake one for the other at your peril. Don’t be fooled: Only 5 percent of the bill’s spending would actually go for roads and bridges—what normal people think of as “infrastructure.” Add in items like Amtrak and broadband and you’re still only at 30 percent of the eye-popping total of $2.3 trillion dollars. And you’re supposed to pay for all this with the biggest tax increase since 1968. Here’s what’s worse: the bill is actually about leftist social engineering. It would end right to work—something the left hates, because it guarantees no one can be forced to join a union or pay union dues in order to hold a job. Ending it offers a rich new source of campaign contributions for Democrats. Calling a shark a dolphin doesn’t make it one.