The wan hope for a anti-abortion, pro-family right. jonathanchait writes
Now that social conservatives have finally won their generational struggle to overturn Roe v. Wade, is it time for the anti-abortion movement to finally embrace a seamless culture of life that extends its protections to mothers and children who have already been born?
Those conservatives have grasped onto the Dobbs ruling as their chance to steer the party’s economic doctrine away from its doctrinaire course. “There is now a really important opening for pro-life Republicans to be more open about their support of social-welfare programs,” Charlie Camosy, ethics professor at the Creighton University School of Medicine and anti-abortion columnist for the Religion News Service, hopefully tells The Atlantic.
That is not merely the future. It is the past and present. After all, conservatives may have more latitude to restrict abortion now, but it’s not as if they had no opportunity to do so before. Conservatives have applied a combination of legal restrictions, social pressure, and terrorist threats to make abortion exceedingly difficult to obtain in much of the country.
The measure, however, has failed to attract any Republican support and expired this year. Mitt Romney has tried to recruit members of his party to support a newer, bipartisan version of the plan. He unveiled his idea last year. The Niskanen Center, which helped Romney design the proposal, boasted that it would reduce the child-poverty rate from 12.41 percent to 8.37 percent.
One can certainly sympathize with Romney’s goals here. The problem is that he is working within the constraints of the Republican Party and the conservative movement. Those constraints include an absolute prohibition on new taxes or any cuts that would harm the rich.
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