The Pro-Life Movement Abandons Itself

This is some great reporting this morning from John McCormack at The Dispatch on the failure of the pro-life movement to stand up for itself.

I can’t really recall the last time a major, well-funded movement in Washington simply decided to give up. The only group willing to voice concerns against Robert Kennedy, Jr. is Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. Every other pro-life group has either hitched their wagon to the pro-abortion nomination or kept silent.

Some, like the Heritage Foundation, actively supported Kennedy from the beginning. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser expressed “concerns” about the nomination in November, but the group, which is the largest pro-life organization in the country, has not opposed it.

In fact, Tim Chapman, the president of Advancing American Freedom, the political group founded by Mike Pence, said he is unaware of any other pro-life groups that have publicly come out against the RFK nomination. “There’s a very quiet, not spoken, but very real concern about RFK leading HHS, but what you’re seeing is a pro-life movement that feels like it’s been losing a lot, and that that movement feels in many ways like they can’t afford another loss,” Chapman told The Dispatch. “So to speak up about their concerns about RFK, but then get completely rolled in the confirmation process would project weakness.”

“It’s just strange for an issue advocacy group to say they don’t want to advocate for their issue because they’ll get on the wrong side of a person who disagrees with them,” said AEI’s Levin. “Then what really is the purpose of these groups? They obviously should be pressing for a pro-life HHS Secretary in a Republican administration, and there’s no way around the fact that not having one would be a huge loss for them.”

I’m afraid we are rapidly reaching the grifter phase of the pro-life movement where they raise money off pro-life donors while doing really nothing much at all.

If they are not willing to fight against putting a pro-abortion Democrat into the presidential line of succession of a Republican administration because they might not get invited to a party, they are useless.