Creating a Climate For Change on Abortion

Paul Pauker:

...we can learn many lessons from the movement to abolish slavery. Lerone Bennett Jr., author ofForced Into Glory, worded it best when he described how such a climate was created back then by individuals “who planted seeds and prepared the ground in the 1830s and 1840s … for a crop that could only be harvested in the 1860s.” That crop, of course, was the Thirteenth Amendment, which freed the slaves. Now we need to plant seeds and prepare the ground for a new crop. 

And that starts with the pro-life community discontinuing the use of the words “unborn” or “preborn” and “postborn” human life and instead using the words “pre-delivered” and “post-delivered” human life. Using the words “unborn” or “preborn” and “postborn” imbeds the false notion in the public’s mind that an embryo or fetus isn’t fully human until “born” at delivery. One way to help shift public opinion from merely opposing abortion and embryonic stem cell research to supporting prohibition is by demonstrating the fact that a human life is born at the moment of conception and that an embryo or fetus simply hasn’t been delivered yet. Repeating that point at every relevant opportunity is crucial.

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