Pro-lifers can stop losing by refusing to argue on pro-abortion turf

But many pro-life people argue on this ground today. What is a heartbeat law except a tacit admission that before a heartbeat is detected the baby might not be a baby? Other arguments based on medical advancements, no matter how much they push the viability earlier in the pregnancy, cede that babies who are not viable can be aborted. The incremental approach to save some now is understandable, but it entirely undermines the argument to end abortion.

Pro-life people have largely accepted the left’s terms and argue on the grounds their opponents prefer. We talk about “women’s rights,” an invention of the left, and scientific explanations that a baby is a human being, as if we could ever twist the left’s upside-down version of rights and science enough to convince them that killing babies for women’s liberation is wrong. As if pro-choice people don’t know they are advocating for killing babies. We know; all of us know. Fighting in enemy territory is always a disadvantage.