You Can’t be Personally Pro-Life But Politically Pro-Abortion

The late Mario Cuomo, as governor of New York in the 1980s, said he opposed abortion but wanted to allow it as a matter of public policy. He pioneered the combination of “personally pro-life” and politically pro-choice.Other politicians have picked up this position in the decades since, and ordinary citizens often express similar ideas. Many people are uncomfortable with abortion—and might even call it wrong—but don’t want to “impose” that view on others or pass laws protecting unborn children.H