[Aquinasfan]

"When is a good time to talk about abortion?"

After thinking about this - a lot - in the last couple of days, honestly, I don't think there is a good time. Certainly not at a Mass celebrated for a different cause. It would be very out of place. There is quite a lot more to life and living than sex and its consequences.

Abortion isn't an STD, it's murder.

general discussion regarding anything having to do with sex is still not socially acceptable and makes many people very uncomfortable.

Better uncomfortable people than dead babies.

The hammering on this topic should be consistant, but not thundering. Gentle persuassion will be much more effective.

So we should speak out about abortion? Is your disagreement with tactics? You seem to contradict your first statement.

[Desdemona]

"So we should speak out about abortion? Is your disagreement with tactics? You seem to contradict your first statement."

What seems to be the preferred method among the readers of this forum is hellfire and brimstone and whole homilies on this topic. On another thread, I said I walk out on these homilies. I don't, however, walk out on challenging messages and questions on lying, questions of spiritual aethism, etc., and I also don't walk out on the prayers of the faithful. But I regularly walk out on certain priests who start on this topic and beat it until the carcas is mutilated.

Let's face it, priests would be preaching to the choir on unborn child killing. And sometimes this message is out of place. Not that it's wrong, just out of place - and when it is, it loses it's effectiveness.

In advertising, there is a method of constant "noise". The message is regular, but low key. This is the one, if it were me, I would employ in this case, sort of like the endless prayers for the conversion of Russia (before my time, but I've heard about it). Weekly, at the prayers of the faithful. A constant reminder, there, but not obtrusive.