Vanquishing the Pro-Abortion Mindset -- Part Two of Two

Part Two today will be brief but hopefully entertaining and useful. Two weeks ago I wrote about “Amazing Grace and the Scourge of Abortion.” [www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/March07/nv030807part1.html.]

Many, many readers wrote back to thank me for talking about the then-new movie about William Wilberforce, the British Backbencher who tenaciously led the twenty-year campaign that eventually abolished the brutal British slave trade. Pro-lifers look to Wilberforce’s seemingly impossible task as a model for overcoming an evil that appears to be irretrievably entrenched in society.

What I didn’t realize at the time was that there was a companion book released, Amazing Grace, written by Eric Metaxas. That was brought home to me when I was directed to a column written by Mark Steyn that appeared two days ago in the Chicago Sun Times. Fortunately for me, Steyn liberally quotes from Amazing Grace to support his conclusions.

Slavery “was as accepted as birth and marriage and death, [and] was so woven into the tapestry of human history that you could barely see its threads, much less pull them out.” Metaxas explains. Civilization without slave labor was virtually unimaginable.

But Wilberforce vanquished something even worse than slavery, Metaxas writes, "something that was much more fundamental and can hardly be seen from where we stand today: He vanquished the very mind-set that made slavery acceptable and allowed it to survive and thrive for millennia. He destroyed an entire way of seeing the world, one that had held sway from the beginning of history, and he replaced it with another way of seeing the world.''

Slavery did not end overnight. Indeed it persists in pockets around the world today. “But not,” Steyn writes, “as a broadly accepted ‘human good.’''

That’s what we are about, isn’t it? Altering the very way the culture looks at abortion. Teaching people, young and old, male and female, that there is nothing “good” about ripping apart the most sacred bond in human culture, that between a mother and her unborn child.

If you have not seen Amazing Grace, please check it before it leaves the theatres. As I said two weeks ago,  ”I promise you'll be inspired, uplifted, and reminded that so long as we refuse to give into discouragement, with God's help, someday the scourge of abortion will be removed from our great nation.”

If you have any comments or questions, write Dave Andrusko at daveandrusko@hotmail.com.

Part One