Fri Jun 23, 2023 – 6:00 am EDTFri Jun 23, 2023 – 5:28 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – With the initial euphoria of last year’s overturn of Roe v. Wade firmly behind us, the pro-life movement is now focused on our next steps. Republican-controlled states work diligently to restrict abortion within their borders, and a group of leading pro-life activists and thinkers recently issued a joint call for their federal counterparts to pursue nationwide abortion prohibition, citing the equal protection principles of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Of course, the latter conversation implicitly invites a perfectly reasonable question as to why the U.S. Supreme Court didn’t just apply those 14th Amendment principles last year, prompting some to see the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling not as a seismic victory but as a letdown that could have gone much further.
It’s understandable to be frustrated that after half a century we still have so far to go, and it’s healthy to periodically remind ourselves that the daily slaughter of children demands a sense of urgency that’s easy to lose in the political process. But however well intentioned, that discontent cannot help the preborn unless
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