Have a blessed day!

My only slightly contradictory response is to the question you pose at the top: “Should legislators not attempt legislation because we suspect it will not pass?” My answer is no, they shouldn’t.

It’s not that the legislation won’t pass, because in many states it would. But passing legislation is expensive. Legislators don’t “attempt” legislation on their own. There is a disturbing amount of money in politics. Even the staunchest pro-life candidates and legislators need oodles of money to run for re-election, and they’ll happily take it from organizations and individuals in the pro-life movement. And then there are the lobbyists who command handsome fees to communicate with and organize fundraisers for those legislators, and who’s paying those fees? The pro-life movement nonprofits are.

And once all that money is spent and the legislation passed, there are the legal battles. This is usually taxpayer money spent defending these laws, almost always unsuccessfully. So we end up spending millions of dollars and countless hours with nothing to show for it.

If you want individuals to forego the shiny new car and invest their money in supporting the impoverished, how about the pro-life movement forego political donations, lobbying and legal defense funds and use all that money to support new mothers and their newborns in poverty? And adoption agencies and medical centers?

Then the legislators can focus on policies that prevent unintented pregnancy, and policies that prevent poverty. Let’s reduce the need for abortion rather than just making it illegal.

Thanks for the thought, Brian. God bless.