What Pro-Lifers Must Learn From Kansas Loss

The most important lesson the pro-life movement can take from our defeat in Kansas' constitutional amendment vote is to recognize that it was a defeat. Challenges could—and would—have been overcome had the GOP actually showed up for the fight. Even after Dobbs, the unborn still cannot defend themselves. It is conservatives' privilege to do so, but the Kansas results show that it is also a duty. The end of Roe was not the end of abortion. It was the beginning, finally, of a real abortion debate in this country. Pro-abortion politicians are eager for it. Too many pro-life ones, though, prefer to duck it. They think they're playing it safe, but all that does is let pro-abortion extremists frame the debate. Read more...


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