Pro-Life and the “New Normal”

Chuck Donovan chronicles the pro-life trend in state legislatures :

While official Washington occupies itself with soaring deficits, health care costs and the status of the war on terror, state lawmakers have been busy passing law after law challenging one or more core holdings of the high court’s landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade .

It’s a stunning development.

Just six months ago, the settled view was that Americans were putting social issues on the back burner. Deficit spending and the national debt were said to be the lone priority of the Tea Party movement and the millions of voters it activated in the 2010 elections.

As a New York Times headline in March 2010 put it: “Tea Party Avoids Divisive Social Issues.”

Some avoidance. Since the beginning of this year, according to a count published by the liberal Alan Guttmacher Institute, state legislatures have introduced nearly 500 pro-life measures. Most alarming to the institute and its allies, an unprecedented number of such measures are being passed, many by wide margins, and made law.

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