Obamacare Subsidy Vote: A Test for Pro-Life Movement

There’s no good case for Republicans to reach a deal that increases Obamacare subsidies and lets them be used for policies that cover abortion, just as the editors argue today. Here I want to make an additional point about the political health of the pro-life movement.

That movement has had some great successes in recent years. Our government no longer pretends that the Constitution requires unborn children to be treated as unpersons with no rights; several states have granted them legal protections. The political backlash against these successes, as the editors also note, has been weaker than is generally appreciated.

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Ramesh Ponnuru

Ramesh Ponnuru is the editor of National Review, a columnist for the Washington Post, and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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There’s no good case for Republicans to reach a deal that increases Obamacare subsidies and lets them be used for policies that cover abortion, just as the editors argue today. Here I want to make an additional point about the political health of the pro-life movement.

That movement has had some great successes in recent years. Our government no longer pretends that the Constitution requires unborn children to be treated as unpersons with no rights; several states have granted them legal protections. The political backlash against these successes, as the editors also note, has been weaker than is generally appreciated.