“Pro-choice” activists have launched a legal assault on volunteer-run “crisis pregnancy counseling centers” nationwide — which is ironic, says author R. Albert Mohler Jr., since the crews running such storefronts are dedicated to offering pregnant woman a real choice.
“The U.S. Supreme Court’s declaration of war upon the unborn in its infamous 1973 decision, Roe v. Wade, caught most conservative Christians unprepared and unaware,” recalls the author. “This shock to the nation’s conscience required Christians and other pro-life activists to develop arguments, strategies and organizations in order to confront the Culture of Death and the legalized killing of the unborn.
“The Roe v. Wade decision was quickly repackaged by pro-abortion forces into a ‘pro-choice’ argument that was intended to avoid the scandal of being pro-abortion. Nevertheless, the pro-choice mantra never really worked as a public relations strategy for pro-abortion forces for one simple reason: The only ‘choice’ the pro-abortion forces would accept or respect is the choice to abort.
“If that sounds extreme, just consider recent developments in cities like Baltimore, New York and San Francisco. First in Baltimore, and then in New York City, municipal governments passed laws intended to shut down or curtail the work of crisis pregnancy centers in their cities. The crisis pregnancy centers have been among the most important platforms for saving unborn human lives and reasserting human dignity. This is especially true in more recent years, as many of these centers have begun using sophisticated ultrasound imaging technologies in order to show pregnant women the unborn babies within them —
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