Originally published at National Catholic Register
Editor’s Note: In an article published last week, The New Yorker portrays part of Donald Trump’s strategy to win the 2024 election: sidelining the established pro-life movement in order to build a new vision of conservative family policy.
In the article, “The New Pro-Life Playbook,” reporter Emma Green writes, for two generations, members of the pro-life movement were oriented around the political and legal goal of overturning Roe v. Wade. Along the way, they lost the culture. The next Trump administration will be staffed with people who wish to change that.
To discuss this topic and what the shifting GOP strategy on abortion reveals about our current political climate, EWTN News’ Catherine Hadro spoke to Green, a staff writer for The New Yorker who was previously a staff writer for The Atlantic.
The interview transcript is below:
Emma, thank you so much for joining us. Really fascinating reporting. And I want to go ahead and highlight one of the other major points that you made. You write, quote, “social conservatives within Trump’s coalition have been workshopping a new playbook. They have a much broader social policy agenda in mind for his next term, overhauling the way
