Note: This letter was addressed to Steve Deace, who wrote the recent WND column “How about ‘focus on our principles’?” in which he argues against pragmatism in the pro-life movement.
Dear Steve,
Given the family history you shared, your passionate personal feelings on abortion are understandable. I, too, share your belief that the child conceived in rape is not a criminal and has as much right to life as you and I.
However, there are a few points you may want to consider. First, your mother-in-law, Mary, was not almost killed as a result of legal abortion. Abortion was already outlawed, and her grandparents still almost forced her murder. This is not to belittle the outlawing of abortion; it’s just to clarify that in Mary’s mother’s case, whether 100 percent (as was the law at the time) or 99 percent of abortions were against the law, her parents still could have forced her to abort Mary.
Second, if you were standing outside of a burning school building with 100 students inside, would you stop to count how many lives you could save, or would you rush in and pull as many as possible to safety? If you did stop to count, and you calculated that you could save only 99 of the 100, would you then walk away and let all 100 perish in the flames? Of course not! That’s ridiculous!
You would save as many children as you could. By saving whom we can, we are not condemning other innocents to death. We are saving whom we can. In the struggle for the sanctify of life, time is of the essence, and we must rush, metaphorically, into the burning building and save the lives we can. Too unrealistic?
How about adoption. Would you not adopt one child because you cannot adopt them all? Would you not feed one starving child because you cannot feed them all? We do what we can and work toward the ultimate victory.
Oh, and the biblical examples of the lesser of two evils … may I suggest that you reread what the prostitute Rehab did to earn her place in the list of heroes of the faith in Hebrews and then Matthew 2:13-18. Why did God not warn the other fathers? Should not Joseph have taken all baby boys with him or at least have warned his neighbors? He did what he could and saved the life he could. How pragmatic.
I, too, have fought the good fight for over 20 years to have abortion outlawed. There have been many setbacks, but that has not stopped me from saving the lives I could along the way to our ultimate goal of saving all innocent life.
Attacking Dr. Dobson instead of the baby killers is only dividing the movement and not helping the unborn.
May God continue to richly bless your family and you.
Chuck Campbell
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