This is exactly why the strategy of the so-called abortion “abolitionist” movement is dangerous.
During his debate with our Students for Life staffer JoJo Ruba, Bradley Pierce was confronted with a statement from his communications director calling for “more gallows.”
When JoJo asked Bradley directly whether that meant women who have abortions should be hanged, Bradley ultimately answered yes.
And this is why we’re done allowing this movement to monopolize the term “abolitionist.”
We want to abolish abortion. Students for Life exists to abolish abortion. The difference is HOW we actually get there.
These guys are premature abolitionists.
Their strategy demands laws immediately treat all abortion as homicide, including the death penalty for post-abortive women. If a law is proposed that doesn’t ban every abortion, they fund battles to defeat that law. They argue that heartbeat abortion bans should be repealed because those bans don’t save 100% of children. In Missouri right now, those premature abolitionists are campaigning alongside Planned Parenthood to tell voters to vote against Amendment 3, which would restore at least some of Missouri’s pro-life laws.
Even if a law could save thousands of babies today, they believe it’s evil because it doesn’t save every baby.
We are permanent abolitionists.
We will fight to save every baby we possibly can TODAY while working toward the day when EVERY baby is protected. We go after the abortion industry that lies to and abuses mothers, not the post-abortive women who have been victimized by it.
That means changing the culture. Changing minds. Supporting mothers. Passing the strongest pro-life laws politically possible today and coming back tomorrow to save even more lives.
If we have the votes to pass a law today that saves 10,000 babies but not 100,000, we’re going to save those 10,000 babies and then keep fighting for the other 90,000.
That isn’t compromise. That’s refusing to sacrifice children while waiting for the perfect law.
Our goal isn’t to just make a political statement about abortion. Our goal is to actually END abortion.
Premature abolitionists demand total abolition before the culture and law are prepared to sustain it.
Permanent abolitionists are building the culture and laws necessary to abolish abortion for good.
We are abortion abolitionists.
And we’re fighting for abolition that actually lasts.