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The Mystique of the Pro-Life Movement: On Trump and the March for Life

November 9th, 2023 | 6 min read

By Jake Meador

This piece was originally published on January 24, 2020. Given the election results earlier this week in Ohio as well as other similar post-Dobbs results in Kansas, Kentucky, and Michigan, we are republishing the piece today.

Several years ago Matthew Lee Anderson wrote in these pages that there is no pro-life case for Donald Trump. In many ways the argument has not aged well—Anderson was deeply skeptical that Trump would make good on his promise to appoint pro-life justices. I shared that skepticism. We were both quite obviously wrong on that point—and our friends were happy to remind us of that.

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.