Another brief thought for pro-life day. I'm a skeptic of a "seamless garment" Catholicism (or any other moral framework) that treats other social-justice as implicitly the equal of abortion in terms of their political and moral gravity. But ...
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... I think there is another possible kind of "seamless garment" pro-life politics, which keeps abortion at the center and then tries to weave policies explicitly related to motherhood and childrearing around a core pro-life commitment.
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That's the kind of seamless garment that, say, crisis pregnancy centers and adoption advocates to try to weave. But it's also part of what might motivate pro-life support for child tax credits, a child allowance, etc.
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This recent op-ed in our paper, in which a pro-choice writer looks anew at what the best crisis pregnancy centers actually do, is a good example of what this kind of abortion and maternity-centric seamless garment means:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/opinion/sunday/abortion-crisis-pregnancy-centers.html …
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A seamless garment movement for "life" that tries to be against the death penalty and environmental despoilation and so on down a list of issues seems unlikely to make clear progress on the unique evil of abortion.
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death penalty is quite different from enviromental regs, subsidized college education, etc. Given there there is no compelling Christian argument for death penalty and some against it, seems very coherent for "pro life" to embrace that, if only for rhetorical points vs progs
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Replying to @MorlockP @DouthatNYT
You are assuming that all pro life positions are based in Christianity. Not all are.
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no he's not. he's talking about a seamless Catholic pro-life movement. Read the 2nd sentence of his first tweet in the thread. others might exist in parallel.
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