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Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

It's very far left, that's the ideology there.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

But the pro-life movement has always been a volunteer movement.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

It is different from virtually every other movement because the victims are all voiceless and have no votes and they're unborn.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

So people who are fighting for life, pro-lifers, they're called all kind of names or in media they can be kind of disparaged or put up in caricatures.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

But the reality is there are a lot of just good, normal people who themselves are not getting anything from this cause.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

They're not advocating for their own rights.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

They're advocating for basically other people's children's rights.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

And the amount of money, the sheer amount of money that the pro-life movement has been outspent by, when you consider Planned Parenthood as a lobbying organization, when you consider the money of the Democratic Party that threw it behind pro-abortion ads in midterms after Dobbs v. Jackson and then some of these ballot initiatives to push abortion on demand as part of the state constitutions in some of these states, the pro-life movement was outspent, sometimes 10 to 1, sometimes 30 to 1, and the pro-life movement didn't have the infrastructure

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

that the Democratic Party has built for abortion or that Planned Parenthood, quite frankly, has built in their lobbying groups.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

Now, is that our fault?

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

Yes, we're, you know, live action, one of the projects of live action is working to solve that.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

But the point is, it's a David and Goliath type fight.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

Well, David won.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

Yes, I think there's some absolute wins, and then there's some

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

yet to be won objectives.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

I'll put it that way.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

And what I mean by that is, you know, there's things that I think should be happening that haven't happened yet.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

And the abortion pill should not be on the market.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

That's one of the things that I'm here in D.C.

Interesting Times with Ross Douthat
Why Ending Roe Wasn’t Enough for the Pro-Life Movement

to talk about.