That is the thrust of pro-life advocacy, is it not?
In fact, the moral indictment of our public funding of child-killing pales in comparison to our complicity in not pursuing legal protections. We should not be relegating our advocacy of the rights of the preborn to the more popular complaint that at least we shouldn’t have to pay for their murders.
So, even with our pleasure of knowing that the new Congressional House leadership is prioritizing a defunding of Planned Parenthood, we must remain levelheaded and dissatisfied, maintaining a demand: Work for the restoration of rights to the preborn.
Until the personhood of the preborn is recognized and protected by our laws, we are far from fulfilling our obligation to the preborn.
Pro-lifers have been hearing many promises from those who represent us on Capitol Hill that these representatives will focus on defunding the abortion industry, specifically Planned Parenthood. We rightly celebrate this step in the right direction!
However, we must not overlook sending Congress a reminder. Fighting for the rights of the preborn and fighting to keep our tax dollars from contributing to their demise are two different, albeit related, things.
We implore them not to focus on the funding aspect at the exclusion or delay of focusing on winning back the rights of these vulnerable children. No matter what funding victories we are able to pull off, the preborn are still vulnerable. And, as long as they are vulnerable, their holocaust will persist and will likely grow in more sinister ways.
Those who wish to profit from their demise will use the same tactics they always have—dehumanize the child, emotionalize the manufactured plight that new “technologies” purport to remedy, and propagandize the masses with the intent to sell them more death masked as cures.
Our best defense of the preborn is a good offense. When we focus the conversation on personhood—that all human beings are persons—and insist people confront the absurd anti-human rights stance that our opposition takes, we win. We win this way every time.
While Congress is prioritizing a defunding of Planned Parenthood and public funding of abortion in general, let us remind its members of their primary obligation as self-professed pro-life legislators—to attest to and defend the rights of the preborn.
Our pocketbooks are not the only things at stake.