One Pro-Life View of the Mid-Term Elections

Like just about every other pro-lifer, I am sickened by the results of the mid-term elections in the US.

I don't blame the opposition. I don't blame the liberal media. I don't want to blame, period.

I think that if pro-lifers lost, it's because American pro-lifers need to do things differently.

I am not saying this as a criticism, just as a statement of fact.

We know that the overwhelming majority of Americans favour making abortion illegal except in cases of rape, incest and the life of the mother.

The American pro-life movement has done an excellent job of turning the tide on the issue of fetal rights. We can't comment on the poor results of the election without pointing to that fact, because it would be doing American pro-lifers an injustice.

However, even though opposition to abortion is a mile wide, I think it's an inch deep.

And that's the problem.

It's obvious that there were numerous pro-lifers who didn't vote pro-life. I don't have any hard statistics, but it's a pretty sound hypothesis. If all pro-lifers voted pro-life, there's no way the unborn would be in such a precarious state in the US.

The MSM pounded into the heads of voters that the war in Iraq was the issue. Americans kept seeing pictures of violence and death and mishap every night.

What they didn't see are coffins of the aborted babies, or the tears of people who lost them through abortion.

Since the MSM won't show any such thing, pro-lifers have to work on pounding the message that pro-lifers must vote pro-life PERIOD.

Everything else, including the war in Iraq, is secondary, as far as social justice issues are concerned.

ONLY THEN can you count on electing pro-life politicians.

So long as the vote is split, and other concerns dominate, pro-lifers will lose or be completely subject to the political crisis du jour.

Pro-lifers must work not not only on convincing people that unborn children deserve equal rights, but that pro-lifers are obligated to do something about it.

They must also work on changing the culture. We have to begin to see more pro-life people create cultural products-- writers, filmmakers, painters, and so on. We have to create a pro-life culture, not just "hope" that people in Hollywood who positively despise our values will want our money badly enough to sell themselves out, because I strongly suspect many won't, even for profit. Because the whole edifice of the abortion mentality is what sustains the perverted culture that goes part and parcel with Hollywood, and if it's a choice between being rich and perverted or poor and perverted, they'll choose the latter. It's all about indulging their own lusts and anything that challenges in any serious manner, they will not abide for long.

So American pro-lifers: you've come this far. Keep going. You've done some good stuff, you just need to build on it. You lost one battle. You have definitively not lost the war.