Pro-life victory is defined narrowly. It happens when unborn humans are legally protected, which means outlawing elective abortion and destructive embryo research. That’s the standard. True, our tasks vary achieving that objective and necessarily include pregnancy center work, apologetics, political strategy, and educational campaigns, to name a few—but the objective itself is singular.Click over to read his five points.
Pro-life victory does not mean the poor are fed and every unwed mother has all her needs met if in the end elective abortion remains legal. It does not mean reducing the need for abortion while lawmakers make sure it is nowhere restricted. It does not mean mass conversions to Christ, though as a Christian I have a mission to communicate the gospel wherever possible. It does not mean that we wait for hearts to change (though I hope they do) while another 40,000,000 humans are killed.
Pro-life victory means one thing: The state no longer permits 1,200,000 (read that number again, slowly) defenseless human beings to be butchered annually through elective abortion. It means the state no longer funds and permits destructive embryo research. In short, victory does not mean hearts are changed; it means the heartless are stopped. As Martin Luther King once said, “it may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me.”
To that end, I’m encouraged by five current trends (there are others) that give me hope for eventual victory, though I’m prepared for a long fight.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
What is Pro-Life Victory?
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Disagree. Pro-life victory is when elective abortions are not done. Legality is just a stepping stone towards that victory. I fear his vision has gone from narrow to myopic.
Kevin,
What do you mean by "not done?" Do you mean never done or done rarely when compared to the current legal realities? If the former, your goal is unrealistic. If the latter, the legal climate is key.
For example, laws against rape don't stop all rape, but they do stop most. In the same way, laws against elective abortion will stop most and put in place a moral premise that human beings should not be unjustly killed.
I call that victory.
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