Pro-lifers will win. I’m convinced of it. As long as we hold to our values against the world’s dehumanizing trends we will counter this darkening culture with light and eventually prevail.
Here are a few reasons for my hope:
1) Pro-aborts can’t call themselves what they are. They call themselves pro-choice. It’s a not-so-subtle nomenclature shift meant to appeal to freedom-loving Americans. But in the end, I believe, if your rallying cry is a lie your supporters are going to figure it out after a while. They’re not pro-choice. They’re pro-abortion. But they can’t admit to that. If you have to lie about what you’re for, you’re going to lose…eventually.
2) Improvements in science continues to enhance our knowledge of what’s going on in the womb, putting pro-aborts on the side of being “anti-science.” When Roe first became the law of the land pro-aborts argued that the baby wasn’t a baby at all but just a clump of cells. Most people know that’s not true anymore. People have seen 3-D Ultrasounds. People have seen the photo of the baby reaching out during an in-utero surgery. The numbers of the ignorant are dwindling and that aids our cause.
3) There are no great pro-choice speeches and there never will be any. You can’t move people by speaking eloquently of the right to have consequence-less sex with someone you don’t love. Think back – how many great speeches in the American pantheon have there been which include the words “rape and incest.” I’m thinking it’s a pretty low number. “Give me freedom or give me rape and incest” just doesn’t work right. Even the great orator of our time Barack Obama could only come up with, “I don’t want them punished with a baby” in support of abortion. Pro-lifers on the other hand speak about those things which move us -life, rights and God. In the end, our superior speechifying will win out.
4) We pro-lifers have more babies. It’s simple. Those that don’t believe in killing babies in the womb typically end up having more babies. Pro-lifers are more…prolific. Go to church some Sunday and you’ll hear a chorus of babies attempting to drown out the sermon. You don’t bring babies to a NARAL meeting. It’s considered rude. In the end, demographics win.
I truly believe we’ll win. We have to. We must. And we must never accept that some must die for convenience or that some must be selected to die for the greater good of society. And we must not accept that killing someone is a mercy to them because their life would be difficult due to illness. Until every life is legally esteemed as sacred we should never rest and never give up.
July 30, 2008 at 12:52 pm
We must keep continued vigilance in our prayers and with the grace of God one day we will protect every life.
July 30, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Thank you for the comforting reassurance. As an addendum to # 4, pro-choicers will contracept themselves to extinction. A sad fact but the writing is on the wall.
July 30, 2008 at 1:45 pm
It was G.K. Chesterton who said this:
“Fortunately, those of us who don’t believe in contraception will soon outnumber those who do.”
You are absolutely correct: In the end we will indeed win!
Blessings, Mum26
July 30, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Disasterously wrong.
Pro-lifers are NOT going to win. Present-day pro-choicers are going to win — but they will win it for the pro-life side.
To get into this whole idea and talk of pro-lifers defeating pro-choicers/pro-aborts is a guaranteed losing strategy. Such talk implicitly adopts a static, set-in-concrete, us-against-them worldview.
The problem is that there are more of them than there are of us – even with us having babies. There are more of them, and they have more power and resources. As such, pro-lifers will never defeat the pro-choicers/pro-aborts.
The only way to win is, not to defeat them, but to convert them — and there is a BIG difference between the two. The war will be won for the pro-life side only by present-day pro-choicers being converted over to our side, i.e. by becoming pro-life. The war will be won for the pro-life side only when present-day pro-choicers demand an end to abortion, etc. It is only when THEY demand it, not when we demand it, but only when present-day pro-choicers demand an end, will abortion, etc. stop.
And one day they will. But not when we continue to think of their views as forever set in stone (even the views of someone like Obama). But not when the strategy is not to convert them, but to beat them down and defeat them. That only strengthens their resolve and ensures our own defeat.
July 30, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Bender,
The problem is that when “they” become “us, they are viewed as “us.” Got it?
July 30, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Matthew raised the issue of technology in his post being used to convert.
But make no mistake, pro-choicers will always be with us or more accurately against us. Some will refuse to see no matter how clear.
Your hope of converting all is touching but unrealistic.
July 30, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Amen, brother!
July 30, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Part of the winning strategy, as implied in the post, is ownership of language. The pro-death camp has successfully redefined the lexicon in their own image. Owning the vocabulary is the first step to owning the minds then the hearts of a nation. If people’s conversation is conditioned so as to suppress differences of opinion, the the camp that owns the discussion is the camp with all the power (to coerce through the courts, to condition through the media, to enact culture of death legislation in government). Slowly we are seeing a shift in understanding take place. People are waking up to discover they have been conned into complicity for crimes against humanity by selfish brutes who have no real interest in the common good. If we continue to insist (through education, dialogue, rallies, curbside witness, support to expectant mothers and fathers) that language and action reflect reality, the process of converting the pro-aborts to the cause of life will be swifter, and less lives (and souls!) will be lost.
August 4, 2008 at 2:56 am
Great Post, good reasoning. Some of them I have thought about frequently.
One thought was left off and I think it is the most realistic reason why we will win.
We are one Supreme Court justice appointment away from throwing Roe v. Wade back to the states where it should be, legally.
I foresee at that point we will have some states than ban abortion, and some states that condone abortion. The states that condone it will be subject to all the dark ripples that come with this evil industry and the states will deteriorate quickly.
One by one they will realize that the wrong type of element is coming to their state, costing them millions in health care, and millions in malpractice lawsuits to make money, and crime rates will increase. This deterioration will lead to the citizens of each state to finally say they have had enough paying for all of this, and will legislate the end of abortions in their states. One by one the pro-abortion states will turn pro-life, not for moral reasons, but for economical and standard of living (selfish)reasons.
That is my belief on how America will end abortion.
I am not sure if I will be alive to see this, but would not be surprised in my children are around.