Pro-life movement grapples with how to maintain leverage over GOP leaders

Nearly four years after the pro-life movement achieved its biggest victory with the reversal of Roe v. Wade, antiabortion activists are trying to maintain their powerful status inside the Republican electoral coalition.

This year’s March for Life found abortion opponents debating how they can best maintain their leverage over the White House and Republican elected officials to use the power to set policy on this issue they gained with Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

Pro-life influence in Republican politics was evident for decades. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani sat atop national polls for most of the year before the 2008 Republican presidential primaries. He was “America’s Mayor” and seen as a hero during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. His endorsement and campaign appearances were coveted