via Center for Faith and Culture (January 10, 2022)— “How Christians Can Prepare for the US Supreme Court’s Monumental Abortion Ruling,” by Jessica Prol Smith, fifteen-year public policy write-in Cumberland, Maryland:

“Know your audience and seek to win hearts, not just minds ….

Christians believe that every image-bearer — born or unborn — is worthy of protection. Scripture certainly lends support for this conviction and advocates can use a host of logical and well-reasoned arguments in defense of the unborn person. But an effective advocacy won’t just aim for the head; it will seek to reach the heart ….

A robust advocacy for the unborn will usually lead Christians to effectively serve those closest to the unborn child — the child’s mother and father.

Pro-abortion advocates sometimes sneer that pro-lifers stop caring about babies as soon as they’re born; thankfully, those critics are usually wrong. Thousands of life-affirming pregnancy care centers (often affiliated with Heartbeat International, CareNet, National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, or the Human Coalition) offer spiritual, emotional, and material support for those most tempted to get an abortion.

But the church (both its pastors and its people) must understand and address the motivations for and reasons why abortion exists.

Abortion advocates rely on the myth that women need abortion in order to operate as fully useful and equal members of society.

In the Dobbs case, a group of 240 professionally and academically successful women have filed a Supreme Court brief challenging that myth. Instead of helping women, they note, the data suggest that abortion correlates with the feminization of poverty and women’s declining levels of happiness.

Abortion hurts women ….

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