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Ross Douthat: What the pro-life movement won and lost

The pro-life side has an opportunity to win some of the doubters to its side.

(Damon Winter | The New York Times) A demonstrator’s sign outside the Supreme Court building in Washington, as oral arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson were being heard, on Nov. 30, 2021. When abortion wasn’t directly on the ballot in the midterms, voters showed no inclination to punish politicians who backed abortion restrictions, Ross Douthat writes.