In his article “Abortion: A Failure to Communicate”(published in First Things, April 1998), Paul Swope challenged the pro-life community to consider that it had failed to communicate its message effectively to the audience that most needed to hear it: modern American women of childbearing age.
For 25 years, he said, the pro-life movement had “stood up to defend perhaps the most crucial principle in any civilized society, namely, the sanctity and value of every human life”; however, despite the rightness of the cause and the integrity of those working to further it, the message had not been effective with the very audience who needed to embrace it-women at risk for choosing abortion. Why? Because pro-life activists were focusing “almost exclusively on the unborn child, not the mother.”
Originally Published in Human Life Review – Read the Article Here
Author: Maria McFadden Maffucci