Tulsi Gabbard on two key pieces of legislation

Although I'm Canadian, I get a lot of American news. News these days is in kind of a bad state, but I came across a couple of things recently which have given me some hope. They are both pieces of legislation proposed by Rep. Tulsi Gabbard. One proposal is that a child born alive during an abortion attempt must be given life-saving treatment. The other is a proposal to ban male athletes from competing in female sports.

First of all, if you were to tell someone from 50 years ago that these laws were being proposed, they'd probably look at you very strangely and wonder why on earth such laws were needed.

Person from 50 years ago: "Um, so you are proposing that men can't participate in women's sports... and that if a baby is born alive,  we shouldn't kill him? Those two things aren't already obvious 50 years from now?"

That's how I imagine it would go. But the sad reality is that abortion absolutism has gotten so bad that even common-sense legislation is seen as extreme. I'm pretty sure Tulsi will be attacked for even mentioning this legislation, let alone actually officially putting it forward. The Democratic party, by and large from what I have read, has fully embraced abortion in any and all situations. They seem to believe that even the slightest restriction on this procedure will threaten the entire thing. Of course, that's not a bad thing. But what I mean is they are so fixated on an absolutist position that they won't allow even the tiniest disagreement. It's rather shocking when you think of it.

I'm glad to see a Democrat stand up for what's right. I know people will have an all or nothing approach, that relatively few babies are killed by being denied medical treatment after an abortion, and although I generally hate this expression, but if even one baby is saved because of this it will certainly be worth it.

Tulsi also proposed a law stating that biological men cannot compete with women. Captain Obvious approves. But again, our society in general has strayed so far from the idea of objective truth that even this is controversial. Regardless of the whole gender debate, one thing is obvious: in sports, players are not competing against gender identities, they are competing against bodies and minds. Therefore, if the body is that of a male, regardless of how that male perceives himself, it is simply unfair and uneven for a woman to compete against this male. In various areas, men are superior to women. Women are also better than men in various areas as well. Saying they are both the same is absurd and patently false.

Let's hope this is the start of the injection of some common-sense into the Democratic party in the United States.