Thread by @AG_Conservative

Alabama bill is dumb and counterproductive. It’s like idiots who gather in stores carrying rifles to make a point about the 2nd amendment. The authors of the bill admit it will never go into effect.

The pro-life movement has been winning the debate and gaining support over the last decade by supporting incremental gains and contrasting it to the extremism in the other side. Trying to mirror that extremism is exactly the wrong way to go.

Further, this bill will do nothing to help challenge Roe. It will be kicked out of court long before that. It gives the courts an easy out that allows them to avoid the hard questions as to viability and what the actual standard should be.

This is the same mistake Green New Deal advocates are making on the other side. By proposing something most people view as extreme and suggesting no compromise, makes it easy for opponents to oppose even incremental aspects of their proposal.

The goal of the pro-life movement has been and should be to save lives, not to feel morally superior because you took what you think is the right position. This bill will not help that goal, and it is very likely to do the exact opposite.

Here is @RameshPonnuru doing a much better job expressing what I was trying to say in this thread:

Righteous impatience is leading pro-lifers into strategic error.

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