The Surprising Coherence of the Pro-Life Left

The Surprising Coherence of the Pro-Life Left

In America’s splintered, sometimes incoherent, dual-party political field, nothing offers more certainty in defining political affiliation than abortion. For both parties, abortion policy helps to define a broader set of social values: Social egalitarianism and feminism are bound to abortion on the left; family values and religion are bound to it on the right.From these opposing poles, two incompatible rights-based discourses proliferate—female …