In the hysterical post-Roe scramble, Democrats are sure to show their hand on this radicalism. Earlier this week, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) announced that the upper chamber would hold another vote on the radical Women’s Health Protection Act, which would establish a right to abortion through all nine months of pregnancy nationwide. As David Harsanyi wrote yesterday, “passing Schumer’s bill would likely translate into thousands of viable babies being dismembered for nothing more than convenience (well, thousands more than the approximately 10,000 already killed yearly in late-term abortions).”

Even the ostensibly moderate members of the Democratic coalition are hostages of the party’s activist base on this issue. Just this week, Tim Ryan, a Democratic congressman who is running for Ohio’s open Senate seat in 2022, refused to endorse any restrictions on abortion whatsoever, telling Fox News’ Bret Baier that “you got to leave it up to the woman.” Democrats who are willing to push back against their party’s abortion radicalism are few and far between these days. One of the last genuinely pro-life Democrats in the House, Dan Lipinski, lost his suburban Chicago seat to a well-funded primary challenger in 2020. His pro-abortion-rights opponent, who narrowly fell short of unseating Lipinski in her first primary challenge in 2018, netted $114,550 from the pro-abortion-rights group Emily’s List — her top donor — over the course of the last two campaign cycles. Already, abortion activists are working themselves into a frenzy about the Democratic Party leadership’s decision to back Representative Henry Cuellar (D., Texas), the only House Democrat to vote against the codification of Roe and Casey last year.

Abortion on demand, for any reason, up to the point of birth is now the Democratic Party’s de facto position. Republicans should be sure to point that out, regularly and loudly, in the fight ahead.