One of the great frustrations in being pro-life in the United States is that the chance of success, measured by ending legal abortion, seems a near impossibility. Even with almost half of Americans identifying as pro-life, Roe v Wade and our stubborn government system sets that goal atop a mountain we don’t know how to climb.
Yet the tragic case of toddler Alfie Evans in England should remind us that pro-lifers are not simply tilting at a windmill, we are standing firm in support of the sanctity of life.
Even if it never succeeds in banning abortion, the pro-life movement is important, because once we stop fighting for the lives of the unborn, the fight becomes one over children who are born. By holding that line, and forcing the battle onto the ground of our choosing, we deprived those less concerned with the sanctity of life the opportunity to justify further death. The British courts have done just that with their inexplicable decision to bar Alfie from medical treatment.
Post-Birth Abortion
In 2013, Planned Parenthood official Alisa LaPolt asked if a baby was born during a botched abortion, and was alive on the medical table, what the doctor’s moral obligation is. Shockingly, she replied, “We believe that any decision that’s made should be left up to the woman, her family and the physician.”
In the United States where the debate over the personhood of fetuses is still fierce and competitive, this was a statement beyond the pale– and, thankfully one Planned Parenthood tried to distance itself from. Yet euthanizing children is a growing and troubling trend elsewhere.
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04.28.2025