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

First of all, you can't, you know, again, put a line in the gestational, you know, time of pregnancy and say this is exactly when it happened.

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

So it's also very dangerous to say, well, that's going to be my line for pregnancy.

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

telling someone they have legal value or not, because you don't know when it is exactly.

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

So I just, I don't buy that argument.

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

I don't find it compelling.

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

I understand people want a line in the sand that they can draw to say some abortion is okay.

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

And I think the question we should ask, why do we want that so badly?

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

And that, I think, is the interesting discussion.

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

Why is America so hooked on abortion?

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

I mean, I think that the tension is an unnecessary one.

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

I think we've walked ourselves into a brick wall and we didn't need to do it.

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

And that's because the mistake of feminism and not first wave, I think first wave was beautiful, but then as we went further down the waves with feminism, the mistake was to say, well, now I need to be the same as men, not just have equal status under the law, but now I need to be the same.

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

And so if a man can't get pregnant, then I shouldn't have to get pregnant so that if we have sex and he's not pregnant and then I get pregnant, then I should be able to disappear the pregnancy.

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

That's not reality.

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

The reality is men and women are different.

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

And the reality is when you get pregnant, you're pregnant with a new human life that also has rights and bodily autonomy and a whole lifetime of choices in front of them.

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

And so when we play the game of unreality, that men and women are the same and should always be treated the same bodily in terms of what they can do with their bodies or reproductive systems,

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

is just a mistake.

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

And that's why one of the reasons why, of course, we have one million abortions a year now because we're not living in reality.

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

I would argue what's truly pro-woman and certainly going to make for a more just and loving society is to acknowledge the differences between men and women and acknowledge what sex does.