I'm Pro-Life. I Worry That the Abortion-Pill Ruling Could Backfire.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Otherwise, all of the debates will continue to focus on the difficult edge cases that keep anti-abortion forces on the back foot.
45% : The Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, an umbrella group of pro-life doctors and health-care professionals, sued the FDA over whether mifepristone should have been approved in the first place.
45% : In just the past year, abortion-rights advocates in North Dakota, Oklahoma, and South Carolina have persuaded state supreme courts to find various "rights to abortion" in state constitutions.
45% : When it comes to slowing demand for abortion and curbing the supply of drugs and procedures that accomplish it, pro-life activists can walk and chew gum at the same time.
45% : But some new government action is necessary to take seriously the economic and social costs of parenthood that drive many women toward abortion.
43% : But if left unaccompanied by broader policy changes, it could lengthen the odds of creating a legal and cultural climate in which abortion is both less accessible and less sought-after.
42% : But the pro-life movement cannot rely on legal wins to save itself from the need to make a politically convincing case that abortion is not only immoral but unnecessary.
42% :Pro-life intellectuals and activists have long espoused the ultimate goal of making abortion "not just illegal, but unthinkable."
41% : Meanwhile, purists in places like my home state of South Carolina eschewed compromise for bills that were not only political long shots, but in fact detrimental to the cause (if not immoral), such as the infamous legislation that would have made women who procure an abortion eligible for the death penalty.
40% : But undermining the narrative that says women need to rely on abortion to ensure full participation in society or to maintain their physical or mental health will require a meaningful political and rhetorical pivot from many more who want to see abortion reduced or eliminated.

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