[Editor’s Note: This piece is written by guest blogger R. Clayton Strang, author at RedState and Life of the Party.  Strang is an activist and abolitionist in the fight against abortion.  Victory Girls has decided to publish this piece from a guest male blogger because it’s important information that should make every pro-life conservative think very hard.  Are you really pro-life?  Are you really looking to end abortion?  Then why are we compromising so much? — Kit]

What is the purpose of the pro life movement?  If one were to ask liberal groups in both the Republican and Democrat Parties they would probably say that the purpose is to take away a woman’s right to control her own body.  Conservatives who consider themselves pro-life might say that the pro-life movement exists to end legalized abortion; I certainly grew up thinking that that was the case, but it’s starting to seem as though I was either mistaken or the pro-life movement has forgotten itself.

I have, along with countless others, have covered some of these issues before (see here and here), so I’ll do my best to keep this brief.

The pro-life movement’s biggest claim to fame these days is not their opposition to the existence of abortion, but their opposition to the legality of certain types of abortions: Partial birth abortion is bad (clearly, right?), abortions after the pre-born baby can feel pain should be banned, abortions after a certain arbitrary time such as 20 weeks of development should be ended they say.  We’re told that abortions via internet, so-called “telemedicine abortions,” need to be ended.  The pro-life movement would like the paid assassins that they call “doctors” to have admitting privileges at local hospitals, and we absolutely need to be sure that these “clinics” are clean, because we need to protect the life of the mother-turned-murderer.

Let’s tackle that last one first, shall we?  Abortion clinics should have strict cleanliness standards.  Really?  That’s the stand you want to take?  Why?  So that the intended mother-turned-murderer can feel like she’s undergoing a real medical procedure?  So she can be nice and safe from infection while her little helpless, innocent child is burned, ripped, crushed or vacuumed until he or she is dead? How pointless!  How about replacing it with this: Abortion clinics should be illegal.  Doesn’t that make more sense?

As for banning certain types of abortions, I think that we agree: partial birth abortions, abortions after 20 weeks, abortions after a baby can feel pain are all bad, but they’re no worse than any other abortion that is currently legal and that the pro-life movement currently ignores.  The hypocrisy is shocking, isn’t it?  A baby that’s been allowed to develop, safe inside her mother, for 20 weeks is worth more than the one that’s only developed for 19 weeks and 6 days.  We’re told that the goal is to “save lives.”  Wrong.  The goal is to end abortion; to change the culture; to give all humans equal protection under the law!

To really see how the pro-life movement has neutered itself, look no further than this recent article from LifeNews.com by Jennie Stone, “Hey Pro-Lifers: Six Things NOT to Do To End Abortion.”  In this article, Stone outlines the things that she believes are harmful to the pro-life cause including: “Using inflammatory language,” “Judging abortion-minded women” and “Hating clinic workers,” and “Fighting amongst ourselves.”  You see, the pro-life movement doesn’t want you to think of abortion as murder, Stone even says as much.    She says that using words like “murder” and “abortion mill” does “nothing to educate others” and that those who do so may be “just plain cruel.”  We’re told by Stone that we must have unity, and anything that disrupts this unity should be cast aside.  (For my Republican friends, this cry for “unity” at any cost should sound sickeningly familiar.)  She continues:

“Groups like Secular Pro-Life (you can find them on Facebook) consist of people “from atheists to Zoroastrians” and bring together pro-lifers of all faiths, or none at all. This is what true pro-life unity is all about.  It’s perfectly fine to be motivated by your faith to put an end to abortion, but when it causes division, it’s time to take a step back and figure out how to get along.”

If Jesus gets in the way of the goals the pro-life movement, He must move out of the way.  Do you fight abortion because of your belief in Jesus and your correct understanding of the Gospel?  Fine, now sit at the back of the bus.

Stone implores us to speak up against abortion, just so long as you don’t tell the truth about it, are willing to go along to get along and keep your Jesus to yourself.

I don’t want you to misunderstand me, LifeNews.com has done and continues to do some great work, and by and large, their articles are informative and useful.  This article, however, clearly demonstrates why the pro-life movement has become impotent.  The implication that if you think that abortion is murder, and are willing to say so makes you “hateful” is absurd!

Is it unloving to tell a woman who is about to or who has in the past had an abortion, that what she’s doing or has done is, in fact, murder?  What could be more loving that to tell her the truth?  Think about this analogy: You see someone about to step right in front of a train: Is it the loving thing to do to whisper quietly “Um, excuse me, Miss?  There’s some sort of noise coming from down these tracks.”  If we truly love our neighbor, we shout “Stop!  Come back!  There’s a train!  STOP!”  The same could be said about those who work at these killing centers that Stone apparently wants us to call “clinics” (which only legitimizes their existence, by the way).  I would argue that it is, instead, unloving to willfully hide the truth from these individuals.

If you call yourself “pro-life”, you should examine what your goals are.  Do you want to tell the truth, preach the Gospel and enter in to the war with our culture to end abortion and the mindset that allows it?  Or do you want to just “love” everyone, make everyone feel good about what they do, and simply limit what types of abortion are legal?  Wake up, pro-lifer!  Stop trying to be politically correct and start telling the truth.

On May 9^th of this year, Dr. John Bruchalski, a former abortionist turned pro-life activist, gave a lecture at the University of Washington as a guest of the UW Students for Life and he closed his talk with something that is profound.  He said “I don’t blame the other side for the abortion problem, I blame us.  I blame me.  We don’t do enough.”  He’s absolutely right.  Evil will always, always exist, until Christ returns, or calls us home, that’s reality.  That’d doesn’t mean that we give up and simply try to manage the evil.  It doesn’t mean that we coddle it.  It certainly doesn’t mean that we pretend that it’s anything other than evil.  It does mean that we dig in, and fight back by unashamedly telling the truth about what the evil is and what it looks like.  And we never, ever put Christ second to the cause of mere men.  Unless we’re willing to do that, abortion will never end.

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