Tuesday night hurt. But let us not lose heart, writes carringtonam. We must renew and even reform our efforts, seeking the wisdom to achieve victory as much as circumstances permit.
Tuesday night was a hard one for pro-lifers. Voters sided with abortion rights through ballot measures in states as diverse in partisanship as Kentucky, Michigan, and Vermont. The judicial victory this past summer inKansas
Those who support the unborn’s right to life would do well to look to President Abraham Lincoln, who offers us needed counsel. In the 1850s, Lincoln fought what seemed an uphill battle against slavery. The Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed long-standing rules prohibiting slavery in large parts of the American territories. Thedecision claimed slavery and racism as fundamental to the American founding, setting the stage for the nationalization of the institution.
Lincoln’s answer lay not in giving up on justice or on the democratic process. Instead, he engaged in persuasion. This persuasion never denied that slavery was evil. But it also refused to define all slavery supporters as evil, either. And it sought to work according to all the constitutional means available, but no more. Lincoln believed it possible to compromise without surrendering, to move toward a righteous goal without in that act fully achieving it. This is our course.
Many Americans would say this about abortion. Many are — like in Lincoln’s sentiment against slavery — naturally pro-life. As Lincoln said, “I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.” That noble instrument thundered across the Atlantic Ocean the principle that all men are created equal and that such equality began, by necessity, with the unalienable right to life.
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