What to Do About Abortion

Suppose you think abortion is wrong. Suppose, further, you think it is evil. What should you do?

Clearly, you should speak out against it, and act to stop it. If you think an abortion is as bad as killing adults, it is not unreasonable to expect you to blow up abortion clinics. After all, if abortion clinics were gas chambers for Jews, that would be your moral duty.

Most people actually wouldn't have the guts or be willing to take the trouble to blow up gas chamber clinics, I think. But also I think most people, even those strongly against abortion, don't think it is as bad as killing adults, whatever they may say. So let's suppose you just think abortion is evil.

If you think abortion is evil, you shouldn't keep quiet about it. You should want your church and your political organizations to say it is evil, and to condemn people who do it-- the mothers and the clinics both. Abortion is very common, so we can't say it is a minor evil, either. So it is just cowardly for a church to say it won't take a public position because that would offend people and keep them from coming to church.