In a recent Life Report podcast, esteemed colleagues Steven Ertelt (founder and editor of LifeNews.com) and Josh Brahm (director of education, Right to Life of Central California) took issue with the notion there can be a “silver bullet” to ending abortion. The discussion centered around one “silver bullet” in particular: something I proposed in a 2012 BreakPoint piece titled “We Could End Abortion 'Overnight'—If We Really Wanted To.” The plan I proposed is called The One-Minute Strategy to End Abortion. Responding to the article, Ertelt stated, “We can't, unfortunately, end abortion right now, even if we wanted to, and many of us do.” Brahm concurred. “My concern,” he said, “was [the strategy] doesn't deliver on the promise. . . . I agree with [Haggard] against apathy. . . I'm just concerned with the way the article is written because it basically says if every pastor spent one minute on Sunday morning talking about abortion, like, the church would unify, and we would raise up, and . . . end abortion . . . 'overnight'. . . What if everybody rose up; then what?”
I think my friends miss the whole point of the One-Minute Strategy. It is not about the “then what?” It is about getting to the “then what?” The first and greatest obstacle to ending abortion is the apathy we agree is rampant. Overcome the apathy—i.e., get the church to “unify” and “raise up” —and we're nine-tenths of the way home. And that’s the point of the One-Minute Strategy: to overcome church apathy ..... Click here to read the rest!