On July 28, an Obama-era judge blocked a key provision of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act: the one-year ban on taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood.

This latest ruling is just one of many setbacks the pro-life movement has faced since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. But that’s not surprising: For 50 years, Roe corrupted not just our laws and courts but our culture—landing us in a society where the defense of unborn human life struggles to resonate.

Roe (1973) didn’t emerge in a vacuum; rather, it represented a pivotal moment in the sexual revolution that has reshaped our society for two generations. Despite a solid scientific case for the humanity of the unborn, legal abortion persists because of the staying power it provides for that revolution.

To make meaningful progress, the pro-life movement must frame legal abortion as one battle within this broader cultural upheaval.

That might seem like quixotic advice, but the recent battles over gender ideology and pediatric gender medicine have exposed the destructive logic of the sexual revolution to a large majority of Americans like never........

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