Yesterday began oral arguments in the Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. It’s a date I hope and pray gets etched into history as the beginning of the end of the greatest injustice ever perpetrated in America. This isn’t just another Supreme Court case. Its decision could lead to the abolition of abortion in many states.
Everyone knows the importance of this case, even the most radical of the pro-choice crowd, from the women who stood outside the Supreme Court on Wednesday, claiming to take abortion pills to pro-abortion politicians seeking to pass a “bill in Congress that would overturn every pro-life law in America.”
The pro-life movement has never been this excited in my lifetime, and the pro-murder crowd has never been this scared. Dobbs v. Jackson is threatening their sacred idol of child sacrifice in real-time. I pray their fear becomes reality.
Abortion must end, and we cannot be quiet until it does.
In fact, silence is one of our greatest enemies on the issue of abortion. Polls have shown the number of pro-life Americans to be as many as pro-choice Americans or even slightly higher; yet the loud voices on the side of injustice still make us feel like a minority.
But we feel like a minority because too many of us remain quiet.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was harsh when discussing those who remained silent on weighty injustices, and there’s some wisdom in his criticism.
“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people,” Dr. King said.
That statement was true of the civil rights movement, and I think it will be true of the modern movement to abolish abortion when the world looks back on this moment.
Bad people will always shout their praise of evil. But it’s not about stopping the bad people from shouting—it’s about getting the good people to speak up.
Many who “support” abortion aren’t radically for murdering children—many people support abortion because they don’t understand just how evil it is. It’s incredible to watch videos like this one of how people will change their minds on abortion when confronted with scientific evidence and facts of the humanity of an unborn child.
Those people changed their minds because someone spoke up. How many people you know would change their minds on abortion if you just talked with them about it?
We as a society are at a breaking point. A society that murders its children will soon die. Either abortion will end or our country and culture will collapse, and now could be the best opportunity we have to end this genocide.
So, don’t fall into the injustice of silence. Don’t back down from any opportunity you get to speak up for the lives of unborn children—whether that be through a conversation with a neighbor, giving time or money to a pregnancy center, or public activism. Even the smallest voices make a difference as long as they’re speaking out.
Abolition of abortion is possible. We cannot be quiet until it’s reality.