Anti-abortion absolutists and incrementalists are fighting again. ed_kilgore writes that there are real and immediate consequences for endangered abortion rights in the states ruled by Republicans
Photo: Olliver Douliery/AFP via Getty Images Practically from the moment Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973, the anti-abortion movement it energized was beset by divisions over goals, strategies, and tactics. While some activists aimed for a constitutional amendment that would ban abortion nationwide, others focused on efforts to overturn the Supreme Court decision and return abortion policy to the states .
“A vital battle stratagem is to choose proper terrain — favorable to you, unfavorable to your foe,” he wrote. “To change the hearts and minds of the public on abortion, it is necessary for pro-lifers to frame the debate to their advantage. Pro-life leaders have wisely focused on this strategy.” The key example: “The debate over partial-birth abortion has furthered this strategy because it has forced the proabortion camp to publicly defend a particularly visible and gruesome practice.
“Hearts and minds,” though, matter more than ever with abortion policy entirely turned over to the states — and in the hands of public-opinion-sensitive governors and legislators in most cases. As the August 2 vote on an anti-abortion state constitutional amendment in Kansas showed, the public can rapidly take away from the anti-abortion movement what the Supreme Court gave it.
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