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ERLC Contributor Claims It’s Republican’s Job To Ensure ‘Abortion Rights Landscape is Tolerable and Sustainable

Days after former AND Campaign chief strategist and TGC & ERLC contributor Michael Wear Proposed that Congress Acts to Makes Abortion Federally Legal, the progressive Democrat activist has doubled down on his idea in a new Substack post. Despite receiving sharp pushback from conservative circles, he proffers an article for Politico he wrote recently, in which he denounces the ‘draconian laws’ in states that just recently banned abortion, as well as saying it’s the Republican’s job to be more comprising on abortion, so that the abortion landscape can be “sustainable” and “tolerable” for the American people, many who want to see mass baby murder codified into law.

If Republicans recognize this moment for what it is, they’ll understand that it’s their job now to ensure the majority of the American people come to believe that the post-Dobbs abortion rights landscape is tolerable and sustainable, which was not achieved by those who support Roe. To advance this aim, Republicans and anti-abortion groups would understand that draconian laws in the most conservative states would undermine the project of building a post-Roe America and take a much more active role in policing their own side. As Republican-controlled states move to pass legislation restricting abortion post-Dobbs, they would do so without criminalizing women, and in tandem with robust supports for women and families….

With Dobbs, pro-life Christians should reassess their policy preferences and priorities. Single-issue voting on abortion may no longer be justified, if it ever was.

Wear concludes by dismissing the idea of being a single issue voter on abortion, saying it’s no longer needed, “if it ever was” because apparently the death of 63 million babies over 50 years is not something worth drawing a line in the sand over.

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Former ‘AND Campaign’ Chief Strategist Proposes Act of Congress to Make Abortion Federally Legal

Former AND Campaign chief strategist Michael Wear, a progressive Democrat activist who was President Obama’s campaign strategist and who has been featured on The Gospel Coalition and written for the ERLC, has written an article titled “This is How To End Abortion Politics as We’ve Known It” 

In the post, he suggests that in light of the toxicity from Roe v. Wade being overturned (after 50 years and with 63 million babies dead) a compromise is in order to keep the Republic from killing each other, noting: “What would be healthier for our politics is for Congress to ask the extremes to accept something they don’t like, as a change from the current tact of asking the majority in the middle to choose between two extremes.”

The law hasn’t been overturned for two weeks, and already Wear is suggesting a “sustainable compromise” on the ability of states to make baby butchery the law of the land again, proposing:

“… a federal ban on abortion post-viability with exceptions for the life of the mother, rape and incest (the ceiling); the legalization of abortion up to a certain early-stage in a pregnancy (somewhere, perhaps, between eight-fifteen weeks, depending on the makeup of the coalition to support such a bill; the floor); the codification of the Hyde Amendment; the codification of robust conscience clause protections; a prohibition of federal laws overriding state restrictions on abortion as proposed by the WHPA; and a mandate that states ensure reasonable access to a safe abortion provider.”

Put another way, the leader of the supposedly pro-life organization wants to make it impossible for any state to abolish abortion. Instead, every state must make baby-murder legal for cases of rape and incest up to birth and between 9 and 15 weeks for everyone else. He’s proposing this to “provide a framework that makes the post-Dobbs, post-Roe landscape sustainable, objectionable to activists on both sides, but too delicate to upset.”

Call us crazy, but we don’t want a compromise that is objectionable to us. We want a landscape where those who are trying to kill the babies are perpetually wailing and gnashing their teeth on account of being unable to execute their grotesque, Mephistophelean plots. We want a landscape where every day they weep bitter, resentful tears that they can’t kill the babies, and Wear here is seeking to codify child-butchery for all the citizenry? Is this a joke?

Specifically, he wants this done because “such a deal could place abortion in our politics where it is in the politics of most European nations—sometimes a second or third-tier issue, but never an issue around which their politics revolves.”

Right. Because the state-sanctioned murder of millions of babies should be a “third-tier issue.” Wear would never allow this in cases of child sex abuse, where all states must allow sexual abuse of children to be legal, but only up to six years old. He would never allow this for slavery, where people have a right to enslave people in all 50 states, but cannot own more than 8-15 at a time. He’d fully and forcefully repudiate that. But killing babies? That should be reduced to the same importance and consideration as arcane tax breaks or specific trade policies and tariffs, apparently.

Wear concludes that one of the reasons why the American public has so identified with Biden as a person is because he has “poignantly described how the issue has bedeviled him” and that “Speaker Pelosi (who has similarly wrestled with the issue of abortion throughout her career) (Editor’s Note. No she hasn’t) could transition our nation into a new era.” free of the encumbrances of this divisive issue.


Editors Note. This article originally stated that Wear is the chief strategist for the AND Campaign, based on his biography on his website, but new information indicates that he is the former chief strategist. This article has been updated accordingly.