EPPC Releases “Protecting the Unborn: A Scholars’ Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Political Prudence"
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Months after the monumental victory delivered for the cause of justice in the Dobbs decision, forming a comprehensive and prudent political strategy remains a pressing issue for the pro-life movement.
“Protecting the Unborn: A Scholars’ Statement of Pro-Life Principle and Political Prudence,” signed by EPPC's Ryan T. Anderson, Erika Bachiochi, Alexandra DeSanctis, Aaron Kheriaty, Carl R. Trueman, Ed Whelan, and George Weigel with a coalition of leading intellectuals, articulates an ethically sound foundation for pro-life efforts and offers guidance for political leaders in prudent decision-making in the post-Roe political landscape.
“A truly just society would meet the myriad needs of pregnant women while legally protecting their unborn children at every stage,” the statement reads. In light of this, the scholars advance two propositions: the principle that the pro-life ideal “require[s] us to protect access to life-affirming medical treatment for pregnant women facing grave medical complications,” and the prudential counsel that “We should not allow the perfect to be the enemy of the good where the perfect is not currently feasible, but a law better than the legal status quo is achievable.”
The scholars urge lawmakers to continue to pursue what justice demands: a culture in which every human being is protected in law and welcomed in life.
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EPPC’s Life and Family Initiative brings together the longstanding pro-life efforts of many EPPC scholars to create an integrated, holistic response addressing both the necessary protections for unborn children and the necessary support for pregnant mothers and their families.
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Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing, the new book by EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson and Fellow Alexandra DeSanctis, exposes the false promises of the abortion movement and explains why it has made everything worse. Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade and returned abortion law to the democratic process, a powerful new book reframes the coming debate: Our fifty-year experiment with unlimited abortion has harmed everyone—even its most passionate proponents.
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