In the age of Obama, the anti-abortion movement has nowhere left to go

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Troubling article from a radically conservative magazine:

One quite insightful comment from the article:

At 36 years old, the pro-life movement is still energetic and indignant—and trapped. Every year of Republican rule has increased the suspicion that pro-lifers are the GOP’s useful idiots. Planned Parenthood still received federal dollars, and Congress never stripped courts of their ability to overturn parental notification and conscience laws. A human life amendment was ditched for Social Security reform. And just one year of unified Democratic rule in the federal government may undo a generation of small victories for the movement’s incrementalists at all levels. In desperation, pro-lifers may turn en masse to the “Personhood Now” strategy in an effort to impose a “culture of life” that the movement hasn’t built consensus for in the opinions or

amconmag.com/article/2009/feb/09/00020/

 

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A month before his death, Fr. Richard Neuhaus said, “Whatever else it is, the pro-life movement of the last thirty-plus years is one of the most massive and sustained expressions of citizen participation in the history of the United States.” Neuhaus neglected to mention that the pro-life movement has endured for so long precisely because it has failed. On Jan. 22, the March for Life turned 36 years old. In that time, Republican presidents have appointed eight Supreme Court justices, but Roe v. Wade remains law.

While we want abortion ended now, it took 89 years and a war (plus over 100 years under British colonial rule) to end slavery. Was abolition ultimately a failure? Neither will be the pro-life movement. We hope and pray it won’t take that long, but we won’t give up, and we won’t fail.

 

[MarcellusW]

Battles can be lost but the war between good and evil has already been won by God.