3 steps toward a winning pro-life strategy

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The greatest victory of the pro-life movement has been followed by some of its greatest defeats.

Two years ago, abortion was legal in every state, but a majority of Americans identified as pro-life. Today, the Roeregime has been overturned, and 21 states have passed protections for the unborn, but support for abortion has returned to record highs.

Meanwhile, the pro-life side has lost seven out of seven state ballot initiatives – a perfect record of failure.

Some have responded to these setbacks with silence. Others have concluded that being truly pro-life is a losing position, urging Republicans to become pro-choice lite instead. Still others have punted everything to the states, claiming that Congress should stay out of the fight.

PRO-LIFE LEADER ANTICIPATES MAJOR VICTORIES DESPITE RECENT BALLOT INITIATIVES EXPANDING ABORTION ACCESS

But if there is any reason to be pro-life at all, it is that an unborn child is a human being, with as much a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as any other American. And if that is true, then none of these positions is tenable – because each amounts to an abandonment of our Declaration, Constitution and basic human dignity.

The aforementioned positions are also untenable because they ignore one of the chief reasons for our present predicament. Americans have not