USA - Pro-life advocates worry that the November election might have resulted in a weakening of Congressional pro-life sentiment

Abortion Expansion in Defense Bill Gets Troubling Support

From Pro-Life Senators

BY STEVE WEATHERBE

The unanimous passage through the Senate of a defense spending bill that expands abortion access for military personnel has generated concern that pro-life politicians are in retreat because of the November election results.

• “It’s extremely disappointing,” Tom McClusky, vice president of the Family Research Council, said of the National Defense Authorization Act’s almost certain endorsement by Congress after passage by the Senate. 
• “And we’re concerned that we’ve allowed the other side to frame the debate entirely in terms advantageous to helping women. Everyone wants to help women. But we also want what happens to the child be part of the debate. The child is a human being.”
• But McClusky said he saw the passage of the bill as a result of a general failure by the pro-life movement. 
• “We all have to take responsibility,” he said. 
• “If we point fingers, the pointing would go full circle.”

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