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

It was easy back then.

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

Yes, exactly.

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

And then when we started to report that, it took up a life of its own, mostly through YouTube, some independent media.

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

Some of the more mainstream media started to cover it when Planned Parenthood threatened to sue me at the time for the investigative reporting.

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

As time went on, I started doing investigative reporting across the country.

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

We launched live action news.

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

And since then, we've been reporting now for the last almost two decades.

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

So I would say abortion's wrong.

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

You can do a very simple logical syllogism.

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

First, it's always wrong to intentionally take an innocent human life.

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

And I found that most people agree with that.

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

Virtually everyone I speak to agrees with that.

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

It's always wrong to intentionally take an innocent human life.

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

abortion intentionally takes an innocent human life.

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

And so then the conclusion of those premises is, therefore, abortion is always wrong.

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

Now, some people, of course, are going to take issue with that second sentence, that second premise that you can argue their potential, you can say that, well, they're not the same value as a born life.

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

Certainly they have potential, but it is undeniable scientifically that they are alive and they are human.

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

They are human life.

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

you wouldn't have to have an abortion to end the pregnancy if they were not a human life.

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

And so that is why, in the pro-life movement, we oppose the murder.