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effective collaboration with non-Catholics in the political arena can be damaged severely by overemphasis on contraception

But this is precisely my point: there's no effective collaboration with our separated brethren, there is no point in ever trying, WITHOUT addressing contraception.

The pro-life movement will NEVER succeed UNTIL we address the contraception issue. Legalized abortion was and remains the natural and logical result of the cultural embrace and legalization of the contraceptive lifestyle.

Trying to fight abortion without addressing its root cause is pointless. It will not ever bear fruit. Contraception simply CANNOT be overemphasized because it remains the only emphasis never addressed and the only one that holds the key to defeating abortion.

For whatever it is worth:

The attorney representing the State of Connecticut in Griswold vs. Connecticut was a very Catholic Irishman named Joe Clark. He was one of nine children and he had nine children of his own. He was an assistant prosecutor in what was then the New Haven County Court. He was very dedicated to the cause of stopping contraception. He got little help. On Estelle Griswold's side (she being PP's state Executive Director) was Yale Law School and the ringleader and strategist of the PP case, Yale Law Professor Thomas Emerson. When the Supreme Court ruled in Griswold, Emerson was reported the very next day in the New Haven Register as saying: Now is the time to go for abortion.

Joe Clark later became a judge and he told me repeatedly that we would never resolve Roe legally until we got rid of Griswold simultaneously, that the entire matter was simply none of the business of the federal courts, that the Tenth Amendment left such matters to the states and that we should strive to establish that strategy. He was an old-fashioned kind of Democrat and tone of the very best human beings as a judge. He died rather suddenly of a heart attack when putting on his coat in chambers one day to walk home from the New Haven courthouse. I forget exactly when but it was in the mid-nineties. Keep Joe Clark, his widow and his family in your prayers. They were also Tridentine Mass Catholics just like our ancestors.

This is a sincere question (meaning, I'm not being sarcastic): what would you have pro-lifers DO about contraception with regard to the law? Are you proposing that pro-lifers work to legally ban, say, diaphragms? The late John Cardinal O'Conner, a holy man devoted to the pro-life cause, even said in a long article he wrote in Catholic new York, that he knew of no Catholic bishop (including himself) who wanted to make contraception illegal. So what exactly is the author of this article sayinf pro-lifers should do? I am sincerely baffled.