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

Over the last few decades, I know when I was growing up, the girl boss era was in full swing.

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

It's kind of dying down a little bit right now because people are realizing maybe that's not my end game is girl bossing so hard.

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

And by the way, I girl boss, so I'm not saying girl bossing is bad.

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

I mean, girl boss and that, use your talents to the fullest extent you can, you know, for the good of others, you hope, right, is the goal.

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

But also embrace marriage and motherhood.

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

And yeah, there's going to be seasons where you work, you have to pull back.

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

I travel far less than I did when I didn't have my young children.

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

But I think that there needs to be, for women, a better vision for ourselves.

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

And I would say this is true for men existentially, too, to some degree in our culture.

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

I think we're very tired.

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

We're at war with each other.

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

We have been for some time, the sexes.

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

And we've lost a sense of identity about what a woman even is.

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

And you can make a joke about this, of course, with the transgender issue and confusion around biological womanhood.

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

But what does it mean to be a woman?

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

And I would say the most unique thing about a woman versus a man is that ability uniquely in its own womanly way versus this masculine way to bring life into the world.

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

And that's not always going to be biological because not every woman is called a biological motherhood.

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

But I think a mature woman ultimately is going to be called to some sort of

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

emotional or spiritual mothering of others.

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

Same for a man, a fathering of others.