Life, Love & Law
A high-powered conservative essay ends up getting nearly everything about the abortion debate wrong
The thing we’ve learned since the Supreme Court upended a half-century of established abortion law with its Dobbs decision — and by “we” I might just be talking about me but hopefully the lesson has spread further and even caught the attention of the big pro-life groups — is that law, especially important law with life-or-death consequences, doesn’t work when its underlying principles are fuzzy and not widely embraced by the larger culture.
That’s a mouthful of a sentence, I know. But it contains a big thought.
Instead of coming off their big victory with fire in their eyes and a belly full of momentum, the pro-life movement has fizzled. In one conservative state after other voters have opted to retore abortion rights their Republican state legislatures took away. More people are getting abortions, despite the draconian bans passed in many states. Donald Trump and other Republicans running for office have spent the past months quite loudly throwing their old pro-life allies under the bus. Trump is now promising to be “great for women and their reproductive rights.”
We have a saying in my business of advertising, a good sales pitch can sell a bad product. But only once. There…
