Pro-Lifers Must Recognize That Abortion Stops Only If Women Face Consequences

The Pro-Life movement keeps trying soft approaches to end abortion, but the only thing that will stop the slaughter is for women to know they, personally, are at risk.

Arthur Schaper | July 6, 2026

Another Planned Parenthood has closed down.

Another state has banned mail-order abortion pills and/or requires mothers to get an ultrasound before seeking an abortion.

Another politician has issued a proclamation declaring June to be “Natural Family Month” or “Nuclear Family Month.” Of course, you can’t have a family without children, and those children matter from conception.

All of this is well and good.

And yet...abortions are still rising across the country.

Earlier this year, State Rep. Tony Randolph of South Dakota informed the state House Health and Human Services Committee about this disturbing trend. The Guttmacher Institute has affirmed the truth of this sad reality.

What’s the problem with these efforts?

Oklahoma State Senator Dusty Deevers reluctantly yet necessarily pointed out that much of the piecemeal pro-life legislation passing around the country serves as “pressure relievers” and nothing more.

These lawmakers, with their proposed statutes tinkering around the edges of ending abortion, virtue-signal about stopping abortions. Legislators can pass statutes to crack down on abortions, but they don’t stop all the abortionists. They refuse to take the necessary steps to ensure that life in the womb enjoys protection equal to life outside of the womb.

Sounds like a no-brainer, doesn’t it? Everyone deserves the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. No one should get in the way of or inhibit those natural rights. All lives matter, do they not?

What do Equal Protection statutes do, specifically? They require that every party seeking an abortion be held criminally liable, including the mother.

This proposal strikes many as harsh, but let’s put aside the emotions and........

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