Pro-lifers need to seriously consider what defeats at the ballot box mean—and ask themselves why recent legal successes have not translated into democratic successes.
Abortion
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Abortion politics played a key role in state elections—and will again in 2024
Ohio becomes the seventh state whose voters have chosen to protect access to abortion through the ballot box since the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade last year.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Permanently expand the child tax credit. It’s the pro-life thing to do.
The child poverty rate was cut almost in half after an expansion of the child tax credit. So why did Congress, including many in the pro-life movement, let the expansion lapse?
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Pro-life playwrights exist. The Dramatists Guild just doesn’t seem to think so.
I was saddened but not surprised by the pro-abortion position of the dramatists guild.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Donald Trump calls Ron DeSantis’s 6-week abortion ban a ‘terrible mistake’
Pro-life leaders respond to former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump calling six-week abortion bans “terrible,” singling out Florida’s ban in particular.
Posted inFaith, News
Mexico’s Supreme Court removes abortion restrictions on a national level
The Mexican Supreme Court has expanded its pro-choice stance as women can now access abortions without criminal penalties on the national level.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pennsylvania will end state funding for anti-abortion counseling centers and maternity homes
For nearly 30 years, Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania have approved millions of taxpayer dollars for an anti-abortion program.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
5 pro-life activists sent to federal prison for blocking Washington abortion clinic
The activists could spend up to 11 years in prison for conspiring to enact a blockade at a Washington abortion clinic in 2020.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Most GOP candidates aren’t on board with 15-week federal abortion ban
Just three of the top nine Republican candidates have said they would sign a federal abortion limit sought by a prominent pro-life group.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Don’t believe the headlines: a Nebraska teen didn’t go to jail for having an abortion
In the year following Dobbs, accurate reporting on any story even remotely tangential to abortion is not to be expected.