The Ethics and Public Policy Center (my longtime professional home) has issued a statement of principle on pro-life politics. Along with several of my EPPC colleagues and a distinguished set of pro-life scholars, I’m pleased to have signed the letter.

The Public Discourse journal has kindly republished the letter, along with an apt summary of its two parts:

[1] Just as justice requires us to protect all unborn children, so too does it require us to protect access to life-affirming medical treatment for pregnant women facing grave medical complications. This is part of the pro-life ideal, not an exception to it. [2] While children at all stages of development ought to enjoy the law’s protections, political realities may make it impossible to achieve this fully and immediately in many jurisdictions. When that is so, enacting the most pro-life law realistically possible is justified.