Has the Pro-Life Movement Failed? Not By a Long Shot, Ask an Abortion Doctor

Life News ^ | 1/22/09 | Austin and Cathy Ruse

[hiredhand]

It's DEFINITELY encouraging!

[NellieMae]

Link to best pro-life message I’ve ever seen:

http://www.coralridge.org/medialibrary/default.aspx?mediaID=CRH0902_S

12 minutes long, but, well worth the time.

[presidio9]

Your state legislature passes new laws every year that hurt your business.

[kms61]

Not to nitpick, but it should be “supine on a table.”

[Salvation]

Novena for the Protection of the Unborn

[Salvation]

The result of this iron rule of Roe is that a thousand pro-life flowers have bloomed. It seems pro-life initiatives spring up almost spontaneously at kitchen tables and dorm rooms all across the country. A woman who suffered from abortion decided to tell her story in public and a movement was born and now thousands more speak out. A young man got an idea about prayer and fasting and cooked up 40 Days for Life, a movement that is sweeping the country. Pro-life messages are emerging in the least likely of places, like popular radio and even Hollywood. And yes, hearts and minds are changing.

We give you thanks, Our Father in Heaven, please help others to continue speaking out for life.

[GAB-1955]

If FOCA is passed, it is one of those immoral laws that St. Augustine noted cannot be true law, and must be ignored.

[hinckley buzzard]

your unknown patients lying prone on table after table,

I presume they mean "lying supine."

[RKBA Democrat]

Good commentary and some needed optimism.

From my point of view, the key to Roe v Wade is realizing that the politicians and courts are never going to act to rescind it until it’s irrelevant anyway. And I especially include so-called “conservative” politicians in that. Abortion is just one of those issues that so-called “conservative” politicians haven’t fixed and won’t fix, if for no other reason that if they do fix the problem, they have one less hot button topic to use to rally the troops.

The hope that exists in my view lies with the people who would have abortions in the first place. Women of childbearing age (and their men) are increasingly coming to view abortion as what it is: infanticide. Why is that? In my view, a lot of it is an almost darwinian succession within pro-creation families. People who are pro-creation tend to live their ethic. They have children, and most importantly, inculcate their pro-creation beliefs in their children. Adherents of the culture of death live, or more accurately die, their ethic. Their children would carry on their views. But alas those children don’t exist. They were contracepted or aborted out of existence.

Tactics such as the use of free ultrasounds are important, but I don’t think that’s the real story. The real story is the increasing numbers of women who would not even consider terminating the life of an unborn child in the first place.

[Wonder Warthog]

"What about FOCA?"

"FOCA, just like Roe itself, will further injure the legitimacy of the US government, but to the pro-life movement it will be a potent catalyst."

Superb answer!