The Battle for Life Goes On
Hundreds of thousands of pro-life supporters are expected in Washington, D.C this Friday for the annual “March for Life.”
Since 1974, those who support life have come to our nation’s capital despite the cold weather or the equally frigid reception to our defense of our most innocent citizens.
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson in June 2022 may have reversed the dreaded Roe precedent, which made abortion legal in all 50 states in January 1973. That was a major win for life – but it wasn’t the final act in the ongoing drama to protect the preborn.
In fact, it was really the opening salvo in a whole new battle that must now be waged in every state.
A State-by-State Battle
For nearly a half-century, pro-life activists working toward reversing Roe have known that returning the issue of abortion to the states would trigger this next season of passionate cultural debate concerning the defense of preborn life.
Of late, there is predictable discourse over political strategy within the pro-life movement regarding calls for a national standard on gestational limits for abortion. This is where politics smashes up against morality. As people who believe every human being is made in God’s image, we must remain laser-focused on all efforts designed to champion the dignity of every life.
We cannot waver or get drawn into divisions that weaken our agreement that abortion is wicked, evil, and incompatible with civilized society. Neither parties nor elections should silence our efforts to answer and minister to the cries of the innocent.
As an organization committed to protecting the most vulnerable, Focus on the Family supports legislation from the 119th Congress designed to advance the protection of children in the womb.
These priorities include defunding Planned Parenthood, enacting policies ensuring that federal tax monies aren’t used to pay for abortions in either the public or private sectors, and passing and signing into law both the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Act and Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. We also support requiring states to publish the number of babies born alive from failed abortions, and what measures were taken to save them.
We are grateful for any politician of any party who will rightly decry the inhumanity of abortion and encourage any and all legislative efforts designed to champion preborn life.
We are guardedly optimistic that President Donald Trump and the new Congress will champion many of these priorities. Please join us in praying that a new respect for the preborn will permeate all levels of government in 2025 and beyond.
We must never tire nor grow weary in our quest to defend every preborn life.
Jim Daly is president of Focus on the Family.