End Abortion Now

✅Correct Answer: It's common sense law. Pro-life leaders regularly call their incremental legislation “common sense.” The sentiment implied is that protecting human life is an obvious choice. A brief overview shows how widespread this talk is among the Pro-Life Movement: 2012 - Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America stated that Michigan H.B. 5711 “puts into place common-sense regulations of abortion businesses” for things such as ending the disposal of aborted children in trash cans and preventing abortion pills from being distributed online. 2016 - March for Life advocated for banning abortion after a prenatal child can feel pain. In a press release it declared,“...let’s be honest that fetal pain laws are common sense” because those types of laws “have the support of the majority of Americans.” 2019 - Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) urged Congress to pass legislation that would require medical care for a child who survived a botched abortion with multiple senators saying it was “common sense legislation” that “ensures that all babies born into this world – regardless of the circumstances surrounding their birth – are treated with dignity, care and compassion…” 2020 - Tennessee Governor Bill Lee said he would introduce “comprehensive pro-life legislation” to the General Assembly that would require a mother to have an ultrasound before killing her child, restricting abortion motivated by the race, sex or health of the prenatal child, and prohibiting abortions after a heartbeat is detected. Lt. Governor Randy McNally called it “much-needed, common-sense legislation.” 2024 - Live Action warned that Montana ballot measure CI-128 could “strip common-sense safety measures, like abortion facility safety and health code standards.” 2025 - National Right to Life said that the Ohio law that only allowed medical doctors to dispense abortion pills was a “common-sense health and safety requirement.” Several problems have arisen from this “common sense” approach to abortion. If abortion is the killing of an innocent human being, as all mainstream pro-life organizations claim, then definitionally abortion is murder. The US Justice Department defines murder as “the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought.” Upon further reading, “unlawful” means the person killed did nothing to deserve death; in other words, the person was innocent. But this position causes a problem for the Pro-Life Movement. If abortion is murder then there is actually nothing common sense about regulating it. The only common-sense position would be to completely criminalize it under existing homicide law. The other issue is that both pro-life and pro-abortion advocates use the “common sense” language albeit for different intentions. Frances Kissling, founding president of National Abortion Federation (NAF) supports pro-life policies that focus on regulation because it stalls the end goal of criminalization. Kissling wrote in an opinion piece of the Washington Post: “We need more responsible and compassionate state policies…. If the choice movement does not change, control of policy on abortion will remain in the hands of those who want it criminalized. If we don’t suggest sensible balanced legislation and regulation of abortion, we will be left with far more draconian policies - and, eventually, no choices at all.” Michael Wear, a progressive Democrat and former campaign strategist for Barack Obama, also believes regulating abortion with incremental policies is the best strategy to make everyone on both sides of the issue happiest. Wear concludes that Republicans should abandon “the dream of a federal abortion ban” and Democrats their “policy ambitions of legal abortion through viability” and instead all should work “toward a framework that makes the post-Dobbs and post-Roe landscape sustainable, objectionable to activists on both sides.” In the early 1800s, the Colonization movement launched itself as an “anti-slavery” organization. Slave holders were understandably opposed to anything associated with anti-slavery initiatives until they realized it was their saving grace. John Randolph, a slave holder from Virginia, said of the colonization movement: “I thought it necessary to make these remarks, being myself a slave-holder, to show that, so far from being connected with the abolition of slavery, the measure proposed would prove one of the greatest securities to enable the master to keep in possession his own property.” From that time on the movement filled with both those in favor and opposed to slavery, since through their efforts to regulate the industry, they became indistinguishable from one another. Today the same thing has likely occurred within the Pro-Life Movement. Abortion activists have discovered that “one of the greatest securities” for them is to work alongside pro-life incremental policies in order to ensure that abortion will forever be regulated and never abolished. In this way, many anti-abortion individuals are now indistinguishable from abortion proponents who have planted themselves within conservatism. Slavery abolitionist Elizabeth Coltman Heyrick once said: “The enemies of slavery hitherto ruined their cause by the senseless cry of gradual emancipation. It is marvelous that the wise and the good should have suffered themselves to have been imposed upon by this wily artifice of the slaveholder, for with him must the project of gradual emancipation have first originated. The slave holder knew very well that his prey would be secure, so long as the abolitionists could be cajoled into a demand for gradual instead of immediate abolition. He knew very well that the contemplation of a gradual emancipation, would beget a gradual indifference to emancipation itself. He knew very well that, even the wise and the good, may, by habit and familiarity, be brought to endure and tolerate almost anything.” Most pro-life individuals have been brought to endure almost any “common sense” abortion regulation. But in reality, there is nothing common sense about tolerating the murder of millions. 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