Tuesday night was a hard one for pro-lifers. Voters sided with abortion rights through ballot measures in states as diverse in partisanship as Kentucky, Michigan, and Vermont. The judicial victory this past summer in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization has turned to a string of electoral defeats from Kansas in August to various parts of the country on Tuesday. Clearly, even a significant number of Republican voters do not wish to protect unborn children in the womb fully.
Those who support the unborn’s right to life would do well to look to President Abraham Lincoln, who offers us needed counsel. In the 1850s, Lincoln fought what seemed an uphill battle against slavery. The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed long-standing rules prohibiting slavery in large parts of the American territories. The Dred Scott v. Sandford decision claimed slavery and racism as fundamental to the American founding, setting the stage for the nationalization of the institution.
