Religion & Law

The Left should be concerned about the real-world human freedom and equality rather than the nominal equivalents traditionally favored by the Right. (For example, the Right has long been for equal legal freedoms to work, go to school, etc. while ignoring de facto differences in power and wealth that make for unequal outcomes.)

Making abortion financially nearly costless through federal subsidies (as Reid-Nelson may well do, except in those states that refuse the federal funds) appears at first to make women more free, but in fact it empowers those men who control their female sexual partners (especially among the poor). Ordinary abortion is not expensive, but the decision to spend any money at all is a real-world point of deliberation and negotiation. As the cost of an abortion is reduced almost to zero, some women will lose a last locus of possible resistance to their exploiters: "Just you get on down to that clinic, sweetheart. It's free."

The Left should also be concerned about another real-world result (and, for some, purpose) of federal abortion funding: the decimation of minority races. (Shades of the documentary "Maafa21"...)