Some pro-life Christians reject abortion as pro-life’s sole defining issue

Evidence

“Do we not owe people more than simply reducing ‘pro-life’ to one issue?” he says. “I mean, no one wants babies to die. No one is ‘pro-abortion.’ That is a false dichotomy. Do we not owe more to people than to force them into one box or another? As much as abortion is a pro-life issue, so is affordable health care, access to contraceptives, and real, comprehensive sex education. Minimum wage. Fighting poverty. These should all be part of the ‘pro-life’ conversation.” — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers, 117

Categorization

• XREF: The contest over expanding pro-life to health care, wages, and poverty echoes the internal Christian-left critique archive (and links to Chris’s earlier white-evangelical critique of narrow issue politics). — connects to: Pro-life social conservatives also endorse the death penalty — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1886
• SHARE: A valuable counterweight for anyone writing on the Christian right/pro-life movement internals: cites an actual dissenting conservative voice at the event.

Broader Connections

• Pro-life social conservatives also endorse the death penalty #expands (0.75) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1886