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A proven strategy

Multiple strategies must be used to save babies and mothers from abortion in our nation. Until the killing ends, many worthy efforts should be made to reach women who are being led into the trap of abortion and to save their vulnerable children. But those daily life-saving efforts, as valiant as they are, will not end abortion. To end abortion in our nation, one proven strategy is necessary.

President Lincoln knew that winning the Civil War would not be enough to end slavery. That’s why he fought for an anti-slavery amendment to the Constitution: our 13th Amendment, which was ratified less than a year after the end of the Civil War. The Emancipation Proclamation freed many slaves, but it didn’t end slavery. The Underground Railroad rescued many slaves, but it didn’t end slavery. The powerful oratory and writings of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Lloyd Garrison, and many others, did not end slavery. But those words changed the hearts of many leaders and voters, preparing the way for a Constitutional amendment.

After the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs, a state-by-state approach to abortion became necessary. Such an approach is effective to save many babies and mothers, but this will not fully protect the babies in any state if pregnant women from that state can still travel to another state to abort their babies. Strongly pro-abortion states like California and New York will be extremely unlikely to end abortion. But the strategy of a Constitutional amendment can still end abortion in those strongly pro-abortion states if enough pro-life states pass the Life Amendment.

Why did the suffragists work so hard for over 70 years for a Constitutional Amendment allowing women to vote? At that time it was up to each state to pass legislation that gave women the right to vote. Just as with abortion at this time, a woman could vote if she lived on one side of a state border and couldn’t vote if she lived just across the border. In 1920 with the 19th Amendment all women could vote.

Tragically, even with a pro-life majority of US Supreme Court justices, the killing of preborn human beings made in God’s image remains legal in the United States.

Passing pro-life legislation is important but legislation passed by Congress or in each state can be changed every election cycle. Many argue that it is usually very difficult to get an amendment passed. There have only been 27 in over 200 years. But as with the amendments mentioned above, Constitutional Amendments are worth working for — especially when basic human rights are at stake.

Scientifically, a preborn baby is a unique human being, distinct from his or her mother. A simple DNA test (such as a paternity test) proves that even a baby in a mother’s womb is a human being (whether or not the baby’s mother chooses to acknowledge the humanity of the baby). Legally, a simple declaration that a human being is a person from the beginning of its biological development will result in existing federal and state laws protecting preborn babies in every state.

In the near term, many strategies are necessary, and all of the leaders of the Life Amendment team are involved in various other strategies. But ignoring the necessary end-game strategy of passing a Constitutional Life Amendment ignores some of our nation’s most important breakthroughs in history.