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

Because this is the root of the issue.

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

We see sex today, and this was the sexual revolution, right, on steroids, the free love movement.

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

Sex should be divorced at all times for adult pleasure, as long as there's consent, whatever that means.

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

It should be divorced from consequences, responsibility, and certainly procreation.

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

And that's not reality either, because sex creates new life.

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

And sex is incredibly bonding.

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

And sex is also, I think, sacred and belongs in lifelong commitment, which is why historically we've valued sex and marriage as something really special where it belongs.

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

And that's what I would say is the tragic mistake we've made.

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

And that's why people now have this view of sex as recreational, and they've lowered the bar for its value.

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

And then the next step is you say human life isn't valuable.

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

And I think this was a huge error, that feminism, when it started to get married to the free love movement, the sexual revolution movements, it wasn't always like that.

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

But when they started to get married, those movements, it became very toxic for both women and now certainly for children.

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

I would say absolutely yes.

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

And I think part of live action's advocacy is certainly we want to abolish abortion.

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

Legal abortion is at its core unjust and it should not be permitted.

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

Abortion should not be permitted, but I do think the government should provide, there should be safety nets for people that find themselves in tough situations to support children.

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

And I also think there should be public policy to encourage marriage.

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

Because I'm not so, I guess, pessimistic about the future when it comes to... I'm talking about just the short-term future.

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

Well, we know in states like Texas that have banned abortion because there were about 12 states where the laws kicked in after Dobbs v. Jackson where they were able to ban most or virtually all abortions.

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

And you saw tens of thousands of lives saved.