The Undriven Life—The Christian Difference, Part 3 by Carolyn Cote
The impromptu speech I gave that day was thought-provoking but not genius.
Abortion became legal by a Supreme Court ruling on January 22, 1973. Average Americans were stunned and Catholics led the protests. They helped expose the truth of what abortion truly meant: innocent babies being killed with saline or dismembered in their mother’s wombs.
Making abortion illegal again appeared straightforward—show America what abortion really was and they would never support it. In some cases, this informative approach worked but before long, clinics opened nation-wide and were performing an average of 4000 abortions a day.
Still, the information campaign continued. The pro-abortion folks rebuffed every exposing truth: it’s not a baby—it’s “products of conception” or, humanity begins with the first breath, or when a mother can feel movement. When adoption was proposed as the answer, the tearful answer shut down the conversation, “If I can’t raise my baby I don’t want anyone else to have it either.”
My speech began with, “We can’t judge women for having abortions if we are not willing to help them. If we give women and teens what they need to be successful, they won’t have abortions. If women have abortions because they are poor, still in high school, have unsupportive parents, etc., we should be ready to meet every need. That’s what Christians are supposed to do.” I then used the remaining minutes to flesh out the specific ways everyone could help.
Without knowing it, I had discovered the driven-life. Worse, I had spread it to others.
