Do you oppose abortion because you are a conservative or for political reasons?

I am liberal on some issues and conservative on others, and I don’t care a bit which label falls on me. I am seeking to follow Christ, and it doesn’t matter if I sometimes sound Democratic and other times Republican. As for abortion, I oppose it for one simple reason: that it is the killing of innocent children.

Do you think the willingness of both political parties’ leaders to acknowledge the moral implications and aspects of abortion are an offering of good will and common ground?

To say that the acknowledgement of the moral implications and aspects of abortion are “an offering of good will and common ground” sounds nice, but William Wilberforce and his fellow abolitionists were constantly told this by those who wanted to massage slavery and tweak it here and there and maybe improve the conditions a little on the slave ships.

A Special Challenge to Pastors Regarding the Unborn

I did a phone interview for a film called The Life Project, produced by Verite Studios. Our office received an email from Timothy Eaton, the director, in which he wrote:

Pastors know that roughly one out of five women in their congregations have had an abortion.  Many pastors have had abortions in their families.  Many pastors may not have counseled unwed pregnant women strongly enough against aborting their babies.  It is a subject fraught with pain for any congregation.

Would you recommend continuing to be part of a Christian activist group that I assumed would be prolife and have now found out that some are prochoice and even outspoken about it?

You may have an opportunity to influence that you otherwise wouldn’t. And I don’t just mean influencing those who are adamantly “pro-choice” who may never be swayed (though I know some who have been). I mean those in the group who are silently okay with abortion, who would never speak out in defense of it, but who drove their daughter to the clinic to get hers, who think they are prolife in theory, but in practice, when push meets shove, they choose convenience over life or feel it is okay for others to do so.