Abortion Foes' Dilemma: Confront or Cooperate?

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Source: Wall Street Journal

After making significant gains during the Bush administration, the anti-abortion movement was dealt sharp setbacks in last week's election with the defeat of three state ballot measures restricting abortion.

Now, strategists are debating whether the way forward should be based on confrontation or cooperation with the incoming Democratic administration.

Hard-liners say they cannot compromise on their goal of criminalizing the roughly 1.2 million abortions in the U.S. each year. Judie Brown, president of American Life League, calls it "the civil rights movement's final battle."

But others fear their cause has lost its urgency as a defining issue for many voters of faith, replaced by opposition to gay marriage. In contrast to the defeated anti-abortion measures, three states passed bans on same-sex marriage last week.

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3. Warmest welcomes to DU.

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4. Hey, nice to see someone who thinks like me on this issue!

I've always said that priests are against abortion for that very reason.

Warm welcomes from a recovering Catholic!