First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
I was mulling the pro-life movement’s engagement this weekend. Our message isn’t being ignored. Pro-life stories and the abortion debate are all over the news. Our message is ridiculed by some and others are, well, “fighting” us, I guess you could say.
We are winning hearts and minds, one person at a time. If Gandhi’s stages are correct, I’d say we’re hovering between stages three and four.
So what’s a “win”? For PWPL, it’s a desire “to bring an end to abortion, not by coercion, but by choice.” For others, it’s via legislation, restricting abortion.
Food for thought.
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The neat thing about ‘an end to abortion .. by choice’ is it would signify a society of choosing life. The idea of an end by ‘coercion’ congers up a hyper controlling police state wherein acts contrary to the government, like abortion, would be seen as an exercise in ‘freedom’. A friend who works in a women’s care center once said; ‘We’re not against choice, people will always choose’. Much the better then to be for an informed society wherein individuals see carrying babies to birth is just ‘normal’.
Interesting comment, David.
Ah. It was penned in thinking it was consistent with the ‘PWPL desire’.