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...questions are always framed the same way: when does life begin, what role should the government play, and what are the rights of the fetus versus those of the mother. The posters reconfigure the issue entirely. Just like Bill Clinton signing the Republicans’ 1996 welfare reform bill, HRL is sweeping abortion-rights advocates’ twin foundations—the logic of choice and women’s interests—out from under them. Once pro-lifers stop saying women shouldn’t be able to have abortions and simply say that they shouldn?...
Both sides insist that HRL has given no ground. “As much as I’d like to think that it’s a concession, I couldn’t say that it is,” says Evelyn Becker, deputy communications director at NARAL Pro-Choice America. “[Abortion] is a choice. Are they acknowledging that? I guess. To the extent that they’re recognizing that, well, OK. But the message they’re giving is certainly not in support of that choice...
...HRL also maintains that the postering campaign does not reflect a shift to the center—perhaps its only point of agreement with NARAL. There was no concern within HRL that the campaign represented any endorsement of the right to choose whether to have an abortion, according to Tapia. Schultz says, “The shift in the rhetoric comes from the recognition that more can be achieved in the short term if women stop making that decision, independent of the possibility of that option being taken away...I think if someone were really playing or teasing with...
...while HRL may have won the upper hand in this publicity battle, it’s unclear what it has given away. National pro-life organizations support HRL in saying that the slogan doesn’t necessarily convey support for choice. “It’s a different audience, it’s college women,” says Holly M. Smith, an advisor at National College Students for Life. “The women seeing the posters may be in a position where they’re considering abortion, so [HRL is] looking at a personal...
...HRL acknowledges that the campaign is just an initial step in an incremental agenda culminating in the overturn of Roe. “[Abortion] is only going to be illegal when people understand that it hurts women and ends the life of the child,” says Tapia. “It’s a moot point to argue for it being illegal until you show that it’s wrong.” The strategy, it seems, is to rope in moderates with liberal language that will make them start listening, and begin to form...