{"id":98366,"date":"2016-07-29T15:38:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T19:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=98366"},"modified":"2016-08-31T14:04:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T18:04:37","slug":"a-brief-history-of-the-american-pro-life-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/a-brief-history-of-the-american-pro-life-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"A brief history of the American pro-life movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Most Americans likely think of the pro-life movement as an outgrowth of <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, but it actually reaches much farther back in time. <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> simply accelerated the process by thrusting it into the national limelight.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->A\u00a0book, <em>Defenders of the Unborn<\/em> by Daniel Williams, takes a comprehensive look at the conception of the pro-life movement. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2016\/02\/daniel-williams-defenders-unborn\/435369\/\">Williams notes in an Atlantic interview<\/a>, \u201cToo many historians took for granted that the pro-life movement emerged as a backlash against feminism, and\/or as a backlash against the Supreme Court\u2019s decision in 1973.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the early roots of the pro-life movement were considered liberal. Williams notes that \u201cwe have been mistaken in some of our assumptions about the political realignments of the late twentieth century, and that the pro-life movement that we have always labeled \u2018conservative\u2019 was at one time much more deeply rooted in liberal rights-based values than we might have suspected\u201d (xiv). The pro-life movement, in fact, began as a human rights movement.<\/p>\n<p>It was the\u00a0pro-life movement&#8217;s message of human rights that sustained it through the sexual revolution, the feminist movement, and the social changes of the 1960s. The language of constitutional rights and human dignity allowed for the pro-life movement to build\u00a0a diverse coalition that grew in strength over the years.<\/p>\n<p>As the political climate shifted\u00a0in the decades that followed, the message that abortion is a civil rights issue drove the movement. Pro-lifers insisted that abortion was not in the best interest of women and their\u00a0health, and advocated that women facing crisis pregnancies should receive\u00a0financial assistance instead.<\/p>\n<p>It was the feminists of the 1960s, however, who hijacked women&#8217;s\u00a0freedoms\u00a0into an agenda to sell abortion. They began to label abortion as a woman&#8217;s fundamental right to control her\u00a0body\u00a0and her\u00a0fertility. The feminist movement catered\u00a0the message to the public, and abortion became\u00a0widely acceptable among\u00a0Americans who adopted\u00a0the ideals of the sexual revolution.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">It soon gained widespread appeal among liberals who valued personal autonomy, individual rights, and human equality, and who accepted some of the values of the sexual revolution of the 1960s, including the idea that the state had no business regulating issues of sex and reproduction between consenting adults. The arguments of the \u201cpro-choice\u201d movement\u2014 a term that advocates of abortion rights began using in the early 1970s\u2014 seemed to force pro-lifers into conflict with some key liberal ideas. (6)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During\u00a0this time, the abortion rights movement was also rising, with an infamous abortionist at its helm. Bernard Nathanson, who later converted both to pro-life activism and then to Christianity, writes in his memoir, <em>The Hand of God,<\/em> of the pro-abortion movement\u2019s foray onto the public stage. He described that by 1969, the movement was\u00a0preparing for a meeting with national pro-abortion figures,\u00a0which birthed the group NARAL, and was actively building its coalition.\u00a0He admits that\u00a0their agenda was nothing short of\u00a0eliminating all abortion restrictions:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">\u2026 We would settle for nothing less than striking down all existing abortion statutes and introducing abortion on demand in their place. Our first target of opportunity was the New York state statute prohibiting abortion unless the pregnancy threatened the life of the pregnant woman. (90)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nathanson\u2019s account also reveals\u00a0how\u00a0messaging on abortion has evolved\u00a0over the decades. In 1952, Planned Parenthood\u00a0admitted on a pamphlet that abortion &#8220;kills the life of a baby&#8221;\u00a0prior to changing its message and branding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/news\/?attachment_id=92816\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-92816\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-92816\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planned-Parenthood-Pamphlet-Abortion-is-Killing-a-Baby.jpg\" alt=\"Planned-Parenthood-Pamphlet-Abortion-is-Killing-a-Baby\" width=\"580\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planned-Parenthood-Pamphlet-Abortion-is-Killing-a-Baby.jpg 580w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Planned-Parenthood-Pamphlet-Abortion-is-Killing-a-Baby-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/news\/a-brief-history-of-the-american-pro-life-movement\/planned-parenthood-pamphlet-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98367\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-98367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Planned-Parenthood-Pamphlet.gif\" alt=\"Planned-Parenthood-Pamphlet\" width=\"580\" height=\"431\" \/><\/a>The deceptive media messages the abortion industry crafted\u00a0were imperative in shaping public opinion, Nathanson reveals. The goal was to cause Americans to believe abortion is not the\u00a0killing of a child, but reproductive choice. Nathanson admits the abortion lobby\u00a0sold the message to a press too eager to &#8220;rattle the cages of authority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">The manipulation of the media was crucial, but easy with clever public relations, especially a steady drumfire of press releases disclosing the dubious results of surveys and polls that were in effect self-fulfilling prophecies, proclaiming that the American people already did believe what they soon would believe: that all reasonable folk knew that abortion laws had to be liberalized.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">In the late sixties and early seventies, the media trenches were peopled young, cynical, politically case-hardened, well-educated radicals who were only too anxious to upset the status quo, roil the waters, and rattle the cages of authority. (90)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In fact, it was only two years after Planned Parenthood\u2019s brochure that the abortion lobby began to intensify its agenda.<\/p>\n<p>In his book <em>Third Time Around<\/em>, George Grant, offers a comprehensive history of the pro-life movement and marks the change. He notes \u201cIn 1954, Planned Parenthood holds an international conference on abortion and calls for reform of restrictive legislation\u201d (128).<\/p>\n<p>Grant expounds further on the developing pro-abortion timeline, writing that in 1966, the National Organization of Women was established with the goal of \u201cliberalization of abortion laws\u201d (129). And one year later, \u201cthe American Medical Association reverses its century-old commitment to the lives of the unborn and also begins calling for decriminalization of abortion\u201d (129).<\/p>\n<p>The following year,\u00a0the United Kingdom legalized abortion, and laws began to follow suit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the end of 1971, nearly half 1 million legal abortions are being performed in the US each year\u201d (129). So by the time <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> was decided, abortion was well underway in America.<\/p>\n<p>But Williams notes that while pro-life Catholics fought the wave of feminist opposition and media messaging by insisting \u201chuman life\u2026was ultimately more important than individual choice,\u201d (7) the battle continued. By solidifying their argument in the principle that individuals must care for the weaker, pro-lifers won victories in the public square until <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> was decided.<\/p>\n<p>In the years after <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, several groups rose to meet the national abortion decision head on. In 1975, many leaders met with Billy Graham for two days to form a biblical response to the new law, forming the Christian Action Council (145). In 1979, the American Life League was formed to parallel and extend the work of National Right to Life. Also in 1979, Francis Schaeffer released <em>Whatever Happened to the Human Race<\/em>, a book and film series, following by a book in 1981, <em>A Christian Manifesto<\/em>, which helped \u201cgalvanize the nascent pro-life forces (145).&#8221;\u00a0A major impact also came from Dr. Nathanson, who quit the abortion industry and became pro-life.<\/p>\n<p>As the years continued, the abortion battle bounced back and forth, with each side cropping up to a victory before the other side did. Legislation was introduced\u00a0on Capitol Hill; and in 1987, Planned Parenthood launched\u00a0&#8220;a full-scale negative publications campaign to discredit and close the more than three thousand alternative crisis pregnancy centers around the country\u201d (146). This is a campaign that has not lessened for the abortion chain, which still contends these pro-life centers should not be allowed to operate.<\/p>\n<p>By 2008, when Barack Obama\u00a0\u2014considered as\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sba-list.org\/suzy-b-blog\/obama-most-pro-abortion-president-ever\">most pro-abortion president in American history\u2014<\/a>\u00a0was elected, the pro-life movement was ready to meet the challenge. When\u00a0the 2010 mid-term elections came around, many pro-lifers had been voted into office; and in\u00a0<a href=\"\/news\/2011-breaking-records-for-pro-life-laws-passed\/\">2011, they broke records with <\/a>new pro-life legislation. Throughout both of President Obama\u2019s terms in office, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/6\/28\/12043116\/abortion-scotus-pro-life\">hundreds of pro-life laws<\/a> have been passed, and the trend continues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/news\/a-brief-history-of-the-american-pro-life-movement\/roe_changes_restrictions-490\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98368\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-98368\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/roe_changes_restrictions-490.png\" alt=\"roe_changes_restrictions-490\" width=\"490\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/roe_changes_restrictions-490.png 490w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/roe_changes_restrictions-490-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As in the decades that preceded them, pro-lifers today continue their fight to protect\u00a0the most vulnerable\u2014 from the state house to the White House.<\/p>\n<p><em>Works Cited:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Grant, George. Third Time Around: A History of the Pro-life Movement from the First \u00a0\u00a0 Century to the Present. Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth &amp; Hyatt, 1991. Print.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nathanson, Bernard (2013-02-25). Hand of God: A Journey from Death to Life by The \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Abortion Doctor Who Changed His Mind (p. 90). Regnery Publishing. Kindle Edition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Williams, Daniel K. (2015-12-04). Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement\u00a0 before Roe v. Wade (p. 3). Oxford University Press. Kindle Edition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-indent: 20px;width: auto;padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px;text-align: center;font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #ffffff;background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px;cursor: pointer\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Americans likely think of the pro-life movement as an outgrowth of Roe v. 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