Religion & Law

"One of the most frequently repeated canards of the abortion debate is that pro-lifers really don?t care about life," writes Helen Alvare and others at Public Discourse.  Certainly, we've all heard this charge in our public conversations.  In this essay, Alvare et al. push back.  She concludes:

While the pro-life cause has always been animated by the conviction that life begins at conception, it has never forgotten that it continues after birth. The pro-life movement?s message has been vindicated by 40 years of legalized abortion: the personal dignity, happiness, and prosperity of women, children, men, and the nation is advanced when life is cherished both before and after birth.