Every day 4,000 babies are murdered in the womb in this country. This is a statistic that every pro lifer is familiar with. Once upon a time it was difficult to prove that a fetus was a baby. The abortionist called the baby a blob of tissue. Today's technology has proven the inaccuracies of that concept. 3-D imaging, prenatal surgeries, and continuing technological care of preemie babies leaves little doubts that the "blob" of tissue is indeed a human being. The argument shifted away from the issue of viability to the issue of woman's rights. It is here that the pro life movement has fallen short.The pro life movement has failed to acknowledge that for EVERY baby that is aborted there is a WOMAN. They yell at the culture about the life of a baby, bill boards proclaiming that its a baby not a choice. The pro life movement has succeeded in this area. No one doubts that it is a baby which makes that theory an argument that is seldom brought to the debate floor. However, the pro life movement continues to use this same tactic. What about the mother. Until we reach out to woman, those who have already suffered and been wounded by an abortion, those who would consider abortion as a viable alternative to their circumstance and those who love the woman in those circumstances we will not win the lives of babies or the hearts of their mothers!
For every baby that is killed there are grandparents, aunts, uncles, sisters, brothers, husbands, or boyfriends whom this act will forever define. The statistic is that 1 out 4 woman have had an abortion. The statistics run across the board and include woman sitting next to you in church. Multiply the number of people affected by that decision and every single day upwards of 40,000 people are affected by that "choice". For these people there is only three realities to living in the aftermath. They can harden themselves to the reality they know in their hearts and deny any wrong. They can admit the truth to themselves and live with the guilt and shame they feel which will keep them silent and unable to pass "judgement" on others by voicing their experience. Or, the final choice is to find forgiveness and healing in Christ. For these woman and their families the statistics do not matter because they are the statistics.
Our culture will never pass a law making abortion illegal. To do so would be to convict millions of people of murder. Those people are not going to vote for legislatures who are willing to attempt to pass such legislation. Knowing this is true many pro life advocates have decided that they should pursue a law that would make exceptions because they feel this has more opportunity to be passed. It has no hope of working and is hopelessly flawed. So how do we reach the millions of people affected by abortion in this culture and convince them to make the change. I would say, that we have to convince them that they have been wronged, lied to and damaged. We have to convince them the truth of forgiveness and help them heal. We have to get the truth to them and bring the abortion industry out of the dark, out hiding and into the light. We have to educate the culture on this multi million dollar industry, the health issues surrounding it, and the damage it has done to woman. The pro life movement needs to become the movement that loves woman!
Friends don't let friends have abortions.
