Liberals just can’t leave pro-life pregnancy centers alone

Published April 3, 2018 4:00am ET



For the last five years or so, pregnancy clinics have been growing in number around the country even as abortion clinics have been shutting down. What the Right lacked in legal standing, in order to make pro-life advocacy powerful again, they made up for in a culture-meets-policy movement that has slowly been sweeping the country: Abortion clinics now must (usually) meet health standards, many states started regulating abortions, and last year states started blocking Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood.

Naturally, abortion advocates started fighting back, this time against the pregnancy clinics themselves. Just consider Becerra v. National Institute of Family Life Advocates, NIFLA.

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