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Abortion & Pro-Life Politics blog
'Pro-life stops at birth' is the line to answer, so let's answer itThe charge says the pro-life movement abandons mothers and children after birth. Here is its strongest form, the record, and the honest gaps.The Hyde Amendment rider and the conscience laws that keep taxpayers outHow a spending rider from 1976 and a string of conscience laws settled, by the power of the purse, who pays for abortion and who must take part.Twelve pro-life dinner-table questions and honest answersTwelve questions family and friends actually ask about the pro-life position, answered in law, philosophy and policy, without contempt.Why abortion law differs from state to state, mechanism by mechanismThe post-Dobbs patchwork is not chaos. Six legal mechanisms explain it, and each one has a different group of people who can change it.What the Dobbs decision actually decided, step by step and in plain EnglishA plain-English walk through Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, from the Mississippi law to the vote, the test, the reasoning and what it left open.The pro-choice scholars who called Roe bad law long before DobbsLiberal scholars who liked the result of Roe v. Wade attacked its reasoning from 1973 on, which undercuts the claim that Dobbs was a political coup.The pro-life argument in four premises and where each one gets attackedThe pro-life case is a claim about equality, so here are four premises, the strongest replies to each, and the answers, argued from philosophy and law.