Why Conservatives Refuse to Abolish Abortion

America has focused so closely on the woman that we’ve ignored the child, and even when looking at the child, we avoid inexorable logic and morality.

Arthur Schaper | May 6, 2026

In a previous article, I talked about my conversion from “pro-life” to abortion abolitionist.

In this article, I want to look at the foundational reasons why I (and many conservatives) had such a weak stance on abortion in the past, and how robust pro-life groups like Foundation to Abolish Abortion are committed to the right course for change on this fundamental policy, a course that allows only the most narrow exceptions for “life of the mother,” and that would criminalize all involved, including the woman.

For starters, why was I so hung up on the exceptions? Why did I go along with this idea that exceptions were acceptable?

Like many, I was focused on how pregnancy by rape or incest affects women. I thought it was ghastly or wrong to make a woman who had been raped then endure carrying an unintended or unwanted child to term. The pro-abortion messaging always focuses on the rights of the women (not the child), and such emotional appeals are subversively persuasive. Too often, emotional arguments sway, pushing away reason and natural right.

Granted, a society should care about policy to the degree that it harms women. Yet why do so many of us ignore the well-being of the child? We are talking about human lives, here. They should count, too.

Feminism, gender-based cultural Marxism, and aggressive, left-wing agitation have seeped into our culture and poisoned the truthful awareness of the abortion issue.

First off, the fundamental, false basis of feminism is that women are (supposed to be) equal to men.

Such an assertion is inherently problematic.

At its core, feminism posits (falsely) that men and women should be fundamentally the same. Women should have........

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