Pro-life activists expect massive increase in demand if Roe goes.
QUICK FACTS:
- The Land Center hosted an online discussion about the future of pro-life centers if the abortion decision, Roe v. Wade, is overturned by the Supreme Court.
- Pro-life leaders said they expect to see a huge increase in need for support for pregnant women in the event that abortion access is drastically reduced.
- Patrick Brown, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, said pro-life centers need to prepare for an uptick in the need for resources.
- Pregnancy help centers and crisis pregnancy centers will need financial support and volunteers to assist with mothers dealing with unexpected pregnancies.
- Pro-lifers, he said, “need to be taking the lead on getting them that support.”
COMMENTS FROM PRO-LIFE LEADERS:
- “Maybe in a status quo [women] might have been tempted to choose abortion. Well, now that option is gonna be a lot harder or maybe not available to them at all,” Brown said. “And so the resource centers and the nonprofit groups and the church ministries are going to be faced with an increase in demand for the services that they provide.”
- “Now more than ever, it’s going to be important for us to think about what that next step looks like in walking the walk right,” he said. “It is going to be a requirement for pro-life leaders, pro-life parishioners, pro-life voters to be thinking about what they can do in their own personal lives to support the work of … a crisis pregnancy center,” Brown went on to say.
- Chelsea Sobolik, policy director at the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, agreed, saying, “It’s not only extraordinarily important to care for and work toward legal protection for the preborn, but also care for vulnerable children after they’ve been born and mothers and to see flourishing families.”
- “It will be a redoubling of our efforts to continue to protect the preborn and care for families,” Sobolik added.
BACKGROUND:
- Abortion activists have been up in arms since the leak of a draft opinion from the Supreme Court that, if signed by the majority, would overturn abortion rights as we know them.
- The liberal group ShutDown DC announced this week that it plans to “blockade the streets around the Supreme Court” on June 13, one of the court’s decision days, to “rise up for the transformative change that our communities need.”
