Personhood, Not Politics

Judie Brown says that the "total protection for all preborn human beings might be the only viable option remaining for prolifers to pursue" and takes on the "growing prolife support for bills at the state and federal levels that contain not only exceptions for cases in which the mother's life is said to be endangered, but also exceptions for cases of rape and incest" — Toward a Personhood Amendment.

She questions the wisdom of "prolife leaders who grasped at the brass ring of partisan politics, believing with all sincerity that a quick and easy way to end abortion was by electing men and women who agreed that the act was barbaric and had to be stopped." Noting that "the result has been tragic," she is "tired of the meandering politics that have devastated our cause by watering down the principle."