This election has provided us an opportunity, nothing more. As someone who has tasted just a little bit of what unborn children suffer every day, I plead with you not to let the opportunity go to waste.
I've always been an activist, never a professional political strategist. The vicious cycle of appeasement that pro-life candidates and office holders have stuck to for so long makes no sense to me.
'Within this room of stone I lie, and watch the traffic hurry by, outside the narrow window pane, where love and life alike are vain, and ponder, between them and we, who the real prisoners be,' wrote jailed pro-lifer Jonathan Darnel.
What occurred last week was a natural result of the pro-life movement's myopic focus on political power and its neglect of cultural transformation. We've tried to change law without simultaneously changing hearts, seeking a harvest without first sowing seeds.