Of course, it doesn't.
Pro-life and pro-family policies translate into smaller government. Healthy, confident families tend to rear healthy, confident, law-abiding children. Discipline and prudence is inculcated at the family level thus relieving government of many burdens and external costs. Wise governments follow policies that recognize and build on this truth.
Nations that slaughter their unborn and that adopt policies that weaken the traditional family tend to have much larger and more intrusive governments to counter or neutralize the forces of dependence and lawlessness that such policies loose on society.
Anti-family lawlessness is the lesson of our liberal infested inner cities; anti-family nanny-state dependence is the lesson of the mega-government socialist governments of Europe.
These are lessons lost on fiscal conservatives who foolishly believe that smaller government can be had on the cheap--without regard to the social conservative needs of families.
So well said! : )
No it doesn’t....... When you have the fed gov pass pro life laws, that is increasing the size of the Fed Gov...
Excellent post.
Oh, my ... you nailed that one.
That deserves consideration for post of the year.
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites—in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity;—in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption;—in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon the will and appetite is placed somewhere: and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds can not be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
— Edmund Burke