Under Trump, a new vision of conservative family policy is ascendant. Illustration by Keith Negley “Republicans have just spent an election cycle promising that they won’t ban abortion at the federal level,” Emma Green writes in this week’s issue. “Now that they’ve won, they will be tested on whether they meant it.” Even if the Party does uphold the post-Roe status quo, in which reproductive rights are enumerated with varying limits or protections at the state level, the pro-life movement will have significant influence in the new Administration. But, as Green reports, the primary policy goals may have shifted, away from a focus on abortion and toward socioeconomic strategies that emphasize the central role of families in American life, by connecting the progressive policy goal of greater spending on child care with conservative social initiatives such as reducing the role of public education and furthering a religious agenda. “What remains an open question,” Green notes, “is how their new family-policy agenda would account for the many families in the United States who don’t fit that mold.” |
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