Pro-life advocates waking up last November 6 could be forgiven for thinking it was 2016 all over again. Now, as then, a candidate and her political party sworn to promote abortion wholesale was defeated in favor of a candidate and party that might limit the evil done. For many pro-life advocates, the result was not exactly a decisive victory, only a stay of execution, warding off something far worse.
However, pro-lifers today are awakening to serious worldview challenges that went largely unnoticed when Roe v. Wade was the law of the land. These challenges don’t replace the ones I wrote of during the previous Trump presidency; they represent additional challenges for 2025 and beyond.
Challenge1:RoeIsGone,butSupportRemains
Roev.Wadewasbadlaw,soreversingitwasgoodinprincipleforthenation.However,thatreversalhasnottranslatedintopro-lifewinsattheballotbox.Indeed,sincetheSupremeCourtoverturnedRoev.Wadein2022,Americansinselectedstateshavevotedseventeentimesonabortion,andthepro-abortioncausehaswonfourteentimesandlostonlythree.Inmoststates,pro-lifersaren’tjustlosing;they’regettingclobbered.Ohioisacase
