Stanek wkend question: What is the goal of the anti-abortion movement?
This is a follow-up to last weekend’s question, which was, “Is abortion the problem?”
This weekend’s question is: What is the goal of the anti-abortion movement? What should be our goal?
(I singled out “anti-abortion” from “pro-life,” since the problems and goals of the movement at large are broader.)
Our Quote of the Day today adds real insight:
In every society, there are two critical lists: acceptable conditions for having a baby, and acceptable conditions for having sex. From time immemorial, the one thing that almost every society had in common was that their two lists matched up.
It was only with the widespread acceptance of contraception in the middle of the 20th century, creating an upheaval in the public psyche in which sex and babies no longer went hand-in-hand, that the two lists began to diverge. And now, in 21st-century America, they look something like this:
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.