There is no way to end abortion short of changing the way we love and live. Without addressing abortion as a corruption of how we love, the greatest legal victory is a sand castle on a beach before the tide comes in. The tide will win no matter how large the sand castle, or how well it is constructed. The solution is not to build castles at all but to become the tide itself. Only through lives changed can abortion become the sand castle and love the tide.
In viewing abortion as a problem solved by legislation the pro-life movement plays defense on an opponent’s field. A playing field that separates abortion from sexual behavior handicaps the pro-life advocate. By treating the problem as political the tactics he uses ultimately transform him into the one he opposes. In protesting and persuading he assumes the character of his pro-abortion opponent. After all, both care fervently about their cause. Both proclaim their advocacy of mother and child. Both return home at day’s end morally righteous. And, between one rally and another, both live lives unchallenged and unchanged. To wear the pro-life badge and separate abortion from sexual behavior is to mistake public compassion for private commitment, confuse caring with a lever pulled in the voting booth, and substitute feelings of righteousness for change in one’s own life. The pro-life advocate becomes the one he opposes. The game is lost before it begins. (more...)
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