Georgia and AlabamaAbortionBill wreck pro-lifers' claim to defending women—and invite defeat in courts | Opinion
With two new Trump appointees on the Supreme Court creating a conservative majority, conservative states are jostling to claim the title of enacting the nation’s most aggressive abortion laws. According to the Guttmacher Institute, as of mid-April, 34 new abortion restrictions have been enacted in 2019.
As the anti-abortion movement’s image became tied to extremism it fell further away from the majority of the country’s more moderate abortion views. In order to regain traction with the public the movement needed to adapt. Part of this process was guided by the stream of court cases challenging state efforts to restrict abortion. Of these, Planned Parenthood v. Casey was arguably the most important.
In response, the movement transitioned from a focus on saving the fetus to one on protecting women. The new frame not only had potential in court, but it also provided a way to counter the view that the movement only cared about the fetus and not women. With the new parameters for abortion politics in place the mainstream of the movement had, in Ralph Reed’s words, a “strategy…to pass as many pro-life laws as we can at the state level with…bold incrementalism.
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