Mixed Pro-Life News and Lessons from Election Night
by Charles C. Camosy, First Things:
There is good news for the pro-life movement from election night. Well-funded and well-placed abortion activists had pride of place in the Harris campaign and, clearly pushed by Harris herself, made the supposed right to engage in the violence of abortion the centerpiece of their effort to get elected. This strategy failed spectacularly. Indeed, it resulted in one of the most resounding electoral defeats in recent memory. It is difficult to imagine a candidate or campaign taking on such a strategy again.
And despite enduring a terrible losing streak with state abortion referenda since Dobbs, pro-lifers recalibrated their strategies and got their first three victories: Florida, Nebraska, and South Dakota all rejected their pro-abortion ballot measures. The pro-life movement was dramatically outspent in these battles, yet won nevertheless. According to Ballotpedia, pro-abortionists spent a whopping $118 million in Florida alone and still lost. Countless lives will be saved because of these three outcomes—and these states, along with others that significantly protect prenatal justice, will be able to demonstrate in the coming years that there is nothing inconsistent with restricting abortion and having positive health outcomes for women.
It is also worth noting that, by just over five thousand votes, West Virginia passed a constitutional amendment banning assisted suicide in that state. That, coupled with recent failures to legalize assisted suicide in deep-blue states like Maryland, New York, Connecticut, and Delaware, signals important good news in defense of the dignity of human life, especially as our neighbors to the north start killing people with dementia.
But there’s bad news for the pro-life movement as well.
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