36 Years Of Failure

Michael Brendan Dougherty has a sobering post on the pro-life movement:

At 36 years old, the pro-life movement is still energetic and indignant--and trapped. Every year of Republican rule has increased the suspicion that pro-lifers are the GOP's useful idiots. Planned Parenthood still received federal dollars, and Congress never stripped courts of their ability to overturn parental notification and conscience laws. A human life amendment was ditched for Social Security reform. And just one year of unified Democratic rule in the federal government may undo a generation of small victories for the movement's incrementalists at all levels. In desperation, pro-lifers may turn en masse to the "Personhood Now" strategy in an effort to impose a "culture of life" that the movement hasn't built consensus for in the opinions or lifestyles of its fellow citizens.