Should We Expand the Scope of the Abortion Debate?

One of the perennial questions amongst pro-lifers concerns the wisdom of expanding the definition of “pro-life” to encompass political issues beyond the question of legalized abortion.

On the one hand, we’ve published several pieces at Mere O over the years that say why this is a bad idea. Matthew Loftus noted that we risk watering down the meaning of the term while Stephen Wolfe argued that often supporters of expanding ‘pro-life’ are confusing political objectives with political policies. Matthew Lee Anderson has made similar arguments in a number of places, most notably at Vox.