Abortion Policy, Law & PoliticsNEWS OR ANALYSIS
How Should We Respond to the Imperfect Choices in Today’s Election?
Today’s midterm election is likely to be a frustrating one for many pro-life, culturally conservative Christians.
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Movement Leadership & StrategyCOMMENTARY
Why Pro-Life Democrats Disappeared
Williams traces the decline of pro-life Democrats and the partisan realignment of abortion politics. He argues that institutional, electoral and ideological changes gradually made opposition to abortion far less viable within the Democratic coalition.
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Abortion Pills, the Cuban Blockade, and the Policies That Disregard Human Life
This past week was not a good week for human life, as far as American policy was concerned.
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Roe v. Wade Was Not an Inevitable Result of Liberalism
Williams argues historically that Roe v. Wade was not an unavoidable consequence of twentieth-century political liberalism. He traces competing liberal, religious and legal arguments about abortion to show that the coalition supporting legalized abortion developed contingently.
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Why Did Liberal Protestants of the Early 20th Century Champion Eugenics?
Williams examines the relationship between early twentieth-century Protestant reform movements and eugenics. He connects that history to later debates about abortion, disability and the moral limits of social reform.
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