Former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson delivered one of the most effective speeches so far at the Republican National Convention. I believe it was a speech we will be talking about for years to come.

Johnson described something that I bet millions of people tuning in last night did not know: That an unborn baby in utero will fight to escape an abortionist’s implements, just like any living thing will fight to save its life.

If you raise a hand to a dog, it will cower and try to escape the blow. If you are seen raising a hand to your dog, you’re likely going to be in legal trouble.

But if you put a scalpel in a mother’s womb or inject a saline solution into the womb, there is no legal jeopardy as the baby struggles to avoid having her life snuffed out.

Johnson also described the “Products of Conception room … where infant corpses are pieced back together to ensure nothing remains in the mother’s womb.”

She added that she knows what abortion “smells like.” I hadn’t really thought about that. But as we know, death has an odor and abortion takes an innocent life.

Sandmann Still Standing

Nick Sandmann, the soft-spoken young man who found himself the focus of the left’s fury last year, had a big moment Tuesday night before a national audience. Sandmann said the left tried to “cancel” him. With all due respect, Nick, that’s not exactly what it was trying to do.

He didn’t have a radio or TV show. He wasn’t a social media influencer. He didn’t have a successful business. There was nothing to “cancel.” Nick Sandmann was a powerless teenage Christian who was simply trying to exercise his First Amendment rights.

He and his classmates were mercilessly harassed by a radical black group, and then a professional protestor walked up to him banging a drum in his face. When Nick did not move, they didn’t try to “cancel” him. They tried to destroy him.

It is not an exaggeration to say that many leftists hoped he would die. They used a level of bullying on a national scale that in our schools all too often results in suicide.

One well-known liberal commentator tweeted, “Have you ever seen a more punchable face than this kid’s?” And they’re still smearing him, even after video evidence proved he did nothing wrong.

Radical leftists told him he would never go to college or get a job because they would follow him the rest of his life, telling everyone what an evil person he was. His school had to close because of threats. His family received death threats. They wanted him to put a gun to his head.

God bless Nick Sandman. God bless his courage that day for not yielding to the mob. Thankfully, he is getting some satisfaction in the courts.

But Nick’s fight is not over. Our fight is not over. The left’s assault on free speech and our cherished values is far from over. We must steel ourselves for the days and weeks ahead. We must keep fighting. And we will need all the courage we can muster.

Day Two

The second night of the Republican National Convention began with a tremendous story about the power of faith to transform lives.

Jon Ponder spoke about his time in prison for bank robbery, how he committed his life to Jesus, and how the FBI agent who arrested him (Richard Beasley) became one of his best friends. After leaving prison, Ponder started a non-profit group to help former prisoners succeed in life.

Ponder asked President Trump to speak to his group. This February the president of the United States addressed the Hope For Prisoners graduating class and spoke about the importance of second chances.

Tuesday, President Trump finished the job by granting Ponder a full pardon, wiping his record clean.

Rising GOP star Daniel Cameron, Kentucky’s attorney general, brilliantly exposed the left and ripped into Joe Biden for his claim that conservative blacks “ain’t black.”

First Lady Melania Trump ended the evening with an eloquent and uplifting address urging Americans to “come together in a civil manner” in order to “live up to our shared American ideals.” She also called for an end to the “violence and looting being done in the name of justice.”

The more America sees what the Republican Party is about, the more it also sees what the left is about. (See below.) In response to this call for unity, Bette Midler attacked the first lady as an “illegal alien” who “still can’t speak English.”

For the record, the first lady became a citizen in 2006 and speaks five languages, while Midler sounds like an idiot. Her tweet is exactly the kind of bigotry the left constantly accuses conservative of expressing.

Biden vs. Sarsour

You probably didn’t hear about it on the evening news, but Linda Sarsour spoke at the Democratic National Convention last week. She is a well-known anti-Semite and supporter of Louis Farrakhan.

Joe Biden didn’t have the courage to denounce her and stop her from speaking. When the backlash hit, Biden’s campaign tried to disavow her. But then it apologized.

Sarsour was arrested Tuesday in Louisville, Kentucky, with 70 other radicals staging a major demonstration. The group she was with is so radical that area Catholic schools, Humana, and other businesses closed due to concerns about violence. That’s who Linda Sarsour is. And Joe Biden’s campaign apologized to her.

Biden couldn’t stop Sarsour from speaking at his convention. Biden couldn’t stand up to her when he was criticized by radical leftists. If Joe Biden can’t stand up to Linda Sarsour, why should we expect him to stand up to our enemies overseas or to the radicals in the streets of our major cities?

More Riots in Wisconsin

For the third day in a row, rioting erupted in Kenosha, Wisconsin. This time the violence turned deadly. Three people were shot and two were killed.

It must be noted that Wisconsin’s Democrat governor has been hesitant to deploy sufficient National Guard troops and he rejected an offer of federal assistance from the White House. Business owners and city residents have been left to fend for themselves.

Some of the demonstrators Tuesday were chanting “Death to America!” and “Kill the police!” Clearly, these people are not marching for social justice or even law enforcement reform.

In a country as big as ours, there will never be a year when there is never one questionable interaction between law enforcement and criminal suspects. But these radicals intend to exploit every example to bring down the United States.

Why would we not believe them when they are shouting their goals?

Meanwhile, Julia Jackson, Jacob Blake’s mother, was interviewed on CNN Tuesday night. Jackson called for calm, saying:

My family and I are very hurt and quite frankly disgusted [by the violence]. … Please don’t burn up property and cause havoc and tear your own homes down in my son’s name… It’s not helping Jacob or any of the other men or women who have suffered in these areas.

Host Don Lemon asked her, “Do you have anything to say, Ms. Jackson, to the politicians … to the president or the candidates, Trump or Biden, or anything like that?” I don’t think Lemon got the response he was expecting. Jackson replied:

For our President Trump, first I want to say a family member, and I don’t know if it was heard or not, said something that was not kind. She is hurting and I do apologize for that… And also for President Trump, I’m sorry I missed your call… I’m not mad at you at all. I have the utmost respect for you as the leader of our country.