Fox sportscaster Colin Cowherd has a saying: “Never go cheap on transportation, toilet paper or quarterbacks.” I would add another item to his list: Building a culture of life. Yet, “going cheap” is exactly what the mainstream American pro-life movement has done.

Its strategy consists of changing minds and laws. The movement depends upon moral suasion and gaining enough political power to enact laws that prohibit or at least reduce the number of abortions. The strategy succeeded — in making the phrases “pro-life” and “anti-abortion” virtually synonymous. This made a “culture of life” not only easier to describe, it also made it cheaper.