{"id":2002203,"date":"2023-08-16T08:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T12:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-pro-lifers-dont-get-back-on-offense-theyll-lose-all-their-dobbs-momentum\/"},"modified":"2023-08-16T08:07:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T12:07:28","slug":"if-pro-lifers-dont-get-back-on-offense-theyll-lose-all-their-dobbs-momentum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-pro-lifers-dont-get-back-on-offense-theyll-lose-all-their-dobbs-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Lifers must regain momentum or risk losing Dobbs support."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fif-pro-lifers-dont-get-back-on-offense-theyll-lose-all-their-dobbs-momentum%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2002203&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>Though the results of last week\u2019s ballot \u200bmeasure\u200c in Ohio are being billed as a loss for the pro-life \u200dmovement, they also present opportunities the movement should be enthusiastic to embrace. <\/p>\n<p>Patrick T. Brown, a fellow at\u2062 the Ethics and Public Policy Center, drove\u200c this point home with \u2063a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PTBwrites\/status\/1689069759776583681\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tweet<\/a> that got some attention: \u201cThe Ohio result tonight \u2026 needs\u2062 to be a five-alarm fire for the pro-life movement.\u201d <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2-long d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1377248982\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1379703300879-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-16799e43c332956bbc07ebe51822a82d fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-16799e43c332956bbc07ebe51822a82d\"><\/div>\n<p>In other\u200d words, it has become increasingly clear,\u200c in Michigan, in\u2062 Kentucky, and now in Ohio, that a defensive\u200c posture of\u2064 the movement is unsustainable. \u2062Since the defeat of <em>Roe <\/em>by <em>Dobbs<\/em>, the pro-abortion movement\u200b has fought for<em> <\/em>what they brand as choice, as \u200dperverted a conception as it is. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opinion-republicans-governors-must-use-their-newfound-boldness-to-uphold-sanctity-of-life\/\" title=\"OPINION: Republicans Governors Must Use Their Newfound Boldness To Uphold Sanctity Of Life\">pro-life activism<\/a> on the state level has relegated itself to the \u2062position of reflexively \u200cresponding to \u200ccoordinated\u200d pro-abortion activism, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-pro-lifers-dont-get-back-on-offense-theyll-lose-all-their-dobbs-momentum\/\" title=\"Pro-Lifers must regain momentum or risk losing Dobbs support.\">offering doomed procedural special election\u2062 initiatives<\/a> as a foil to clear, yet seriously flawed, messaging. <\/p>\n<p>As \u200cthese state losses compile, the momentum\u200c of pro-life voters, legislatures, and the movement dwindles. The pro-life movement finds itself in the position of separating the strategic wheat from the chaff. <\/p>\n<p>On the level of procedure, one objective should be \u200da no-brainer for state-level\u200d movements: preventing deep-pocketed national organizations from initiating constitutional amendments. <\/p>\n<p>The largest contributor to the One Person One Vote \u2064Campaign, the group organized under the Kettering Foundation that\u200c campaigned against Issue 1, was the Washington, D.C.-based Sixteen Thirty Fund, which Politico<em> <\/em>described in 2021 \u200bas\u200d \u201ca left-leaning,\u200b secret-money group.\u201d Sixteen Thirty poured\u200b more than\u200b $2.6 million into the campaign. The San Francisco-based Tides Foundation donated more than \u2062$1.8 million. The Advocacy Action Fund in Burlingame, California, gave $1 million. And so on.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2c3b820e15fc207dea6f141e4e1df39c fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-6\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-2c3b820e15fc207dea6f141e4e1df39c\"><\/div>\n<p>The financial incentives would be muted were it \u200cnot for the constitutional amendment regime in Ohio and 17 other states. Those 18 jurisdictions permit citizen-initiated constitutional amendments, which\u2062 require a minimum number \u200cof \u2064signatures from \u200dregistered voters in the state.\u200b This \u200csystem is especially sensitive to the \u2062influence of\u2063 organizations that \u2063function\u200c outside the state. Because money buys the popular vote, millions of dollars flooded into Ohio this year to ensure that abortion codification would be on \u200bthe ballot in November.   <\/p>\n<p>To curb this influence, pro-life legislatures that currently practice citizen-initiated constitutional amendments such as Texas, Iowa, and Kansas \u2064could move to require legislative referrals \u200bfor their constitutional amendments. Any perception of legislatures bending \u2062to the wishes of their lobbyists pales in comparison with the reality of faraway\u200c corporate interests gathering signatures \u2064for so-called grassroots operations. <\/p>\n<p>But\u2062 again, this defensive posture cannot define the pro-life movement on either the national or\u200d state levels. A more straightforward strategy is required.  <\/p>\n<p>Pro-abortion activists have flocked to Ohio, a \u200cstate that former President Donald Trump won by 8 points in both 2016 and \u200d2020, for a reason: The state is a symbol\u200b of a burgeoning pro-life coalition. In 2019, Ohio was one of \u200bthe first states to enact a heartbeat bill, which banned\u2062 abortion about six weeks after conception. The Buckeye State is represented in Washington\u2019s upper chamber by \u200dJ.D. \u200dVance, who was quick to endorse Americans United for Life\u2019s Make Birth Free initiative, \u200ca proposal introduced \u2062this January\u2062 that would subsidize the costs of childbirth for American families.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5ec2441ca6be50c6e689bca16bb718a5 fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-10\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-5ec2441ca6be50c6e689bca16bb718a5\"><\/div>\n<p>By contrast, the pro-life movement has been\u2062 hesitant to take on the citadels\u2063 of pro-abortion activism through political action. The \u200clegislators and governors of California, Oregon, New York, and Maryland will not take on strict\u200c abortion bans for the protection of preborn human life. But those states\u2064 can be positively reformed in other \u2063ways.  <\/p>\n<p>Even if the \u200bstate \u200dof Ohio does\u200c not fall to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/consumers-stand-to-lose-from-swipe-card-regulations\/\" title=\"Consumers Stand to Lose From Swipe Card Regulations\">moneyed special interests<\/a> this November and its voters reject a push to codify abortion in their state\u2019s Constitution, the pro-life movement should focus on pursuing ballot measures that would create abortion alternative funds for pregnant mothers and their children. These states with Democratic majorities, which have\u2062 marketed themselves as havens for abortion, could be tested with a proactive strategy with the aim \u2063of supporting women.  <\/p>\n<p>As long as these electoral wins for pro-abortion\u2062 activists continue, more pro-life Americans will feel that a wet blanket has been thrown over the political and cultural movement to which they feel most attached. The \u2063current reactive path\u200c is unsustainable for all stakeholders in the pro-life movement: legislators, donors, state and national organizations, and the strong base of patriotic, single-issue voters who have held\u2062 a\u2064 candidate\u2019s position on \u200cabortion as a\u200b definitive litmus test for as long as they \u2062have walked\u200d into the polls. The results \u200bof the current path cannot be ignored, but thankfully there\u200b is another way.   <\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-8671ab75dfaf675b75a70242d5befc4e fdrlst__b89e9-after-post-content\" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-8671ab75dfaf675b75a70242d5befc4e\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">    \t\t\t\t\t   \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results of Ohio&#8217;s recent ballot measure are seen as a setback for the pro-life movement. However, they also offer new prospects that the movement should eagerly seize. Patrick T. Brown, an Ethics and Public Policy Center fellow, emphasized this in a tweet: &#8220;The outcome may be disappointing, but it&#8217;s a chance for growth.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2306,"featured_media":2002204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2002203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}