I have heard many prolife speakers talk about how we are winning the culture battle, but I think we should just shut up about it. I don’t know if we are winning the culture battle; neither, in a sense, do I care. Is that going to be the source of our motivation? I don’t think Mary and John remained by the cross because they thought they were winning.
By all signs we were definitely losing the battle yesterday. The waiting room of the abortuary was packed, well beyond its seating capacity. Almost no one spoke to us. At 9:30 a mother and her daughter did come out of the abortuary and climb into their car. Normally, that would have been a very good indication, especially since many of the turn-aways leave the abortuary between 9:30 and 10:00. This scenario, however, was different. The teenager daughter, who had been laughing earlier in the morning, was crying. She walked stiffly. Her mother was hard, angry, yelling at us to back away from them. By 9:30, Joon Ann Nahm had already killed this girl’s baby and kicked her out the door. I have never seen anything like it.
Winning the battle or losing the battle, we have to stay at the foot of the cross.
