The unborn
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I don’t usually involve myself completely in the pro-life issue, because it’s too terrible to think about for very long. How do you try to reach people when they’ve heard everything? What can you say that hasn’t been said before? How do you tell them these are nascent human beings and not trash to dispose of?
A godson at church showed a 7-minute video that has an answer to that, but it’s not pretty. The video is the one you can see at www.abort73.com, which simply shows the results of abortions, with no narrative. It’s very graphic — we excused the children under 10 and any their parents thought couldn’t deal with it. I’m a terrible wimp, and I knew I wouldn’t like it. But I’ve always had a deal to myself not to turn away if what’s at stake is an important reality. This qualified, and I pass it along in case it’s important for others. (By the way, the film gives a warning before the images are shown, for any others faint of heart.)
I have had a problem with things like this, because people seem so thoroughly divided. But the stakes get higher all the time. In a Salon article, for example, a feminist admits that abortion is murder — even calls it ‘the extermination of the powerless by the powerful’ — but supports it anyway. (Link HERE.) This is a new level of commitment to the slaughter of the unborn that we haven’t seen before.
And so, doing nothing seems like less and less of an option. This practice is a national (and international) disgrace, and we will have to answer before God for what we do. Lord, have mercy on us, and on the unborn.
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I wish there were a way to respond that would compel people from their hearts. Stark stuff doesn’t seem to touch them other than that as you note, to admit the obvious issues. It’s not enough to change them I imagine that has to be a softer approach. I wish I knew how or what it took.
Unfortunately, the soft approach hasn’t worked any better and the hard approach (www.abort73.com video) does convert many people. Not all, but many. No major social change has ever occurred in this country unless people are confronted with the stark reality of the offense in question. Until Americans saw black people being bombarded with cutting streams of water from fire hoses on the streets of southern cities, did the tide turn in support of civil rights. It’s not comfortable and it isn’t pretty, but the carnage will not stop without a combination of calm, reasoned rhetoric and visual evidence of the gruesome reality of abortion.
The abortion issue has to be one of the most painful struggles our country has had to go through, and still goes through. It doesn’t help to look at other “civilized” countries in the Western world and see that they’ve abandoned the struggle and are trying to present abortion as enlightened and courageous. (Right now in England, they’re working on a postage stamp to commemorate Marie Stopes, an abortion ‘pioneer’ who despised the poor and favored ‘selective breeding’ — link HERE.)
And so we’re left wondering what the best approach is. None seem ideal. The most ideal thing would be for the Christian Church to have reached young men and women and taught them to value chastity as much as they do romantic love. The most ideal thing would be for all humanity to know that they and their unborn are made in the image of God.
Hopefully, we don’t reach for shocking truths without remembering how to back them up with love and the kind of exhortation that lifts people up. But as I said, doing nothing doesn’t seem like a very strong defense either.
Never underestimate the power of prayer. Continue to pray for this situation. Always be ready to reassure any woman “surprised” by pregnancy, that life is “natural” and God is with her. Always be ready! Always pray!