Probably nowhere in the modern Western context do otherwise Bible-believing Christians, both Reformed and otherwise, accept ecumenism as readily as is the case in the pro-life movement. Attend a crisis pregnancy center fundraiser or a March For Life or similar event and you will certainly see evangelicals, Reformed, papists, and Eastern Orthodox (not to mention other pagans and unbelievers) shoulder to shoulder, having all dispensed with distinctive dogma for the sake of the lowest common denominator slogan, “Save the babies,” as all listen attentively to the secular Jew delivering a pro-life ..read more

Scott Klusendorf has written in favor of incrementalism at the Desiring God website. In this response, we analyze Klusendorf’s three main arguments against immediatism and for incrementalism. He writes, First, it [immediatism] assumes that pro-lifers have the power to immediately end abortion but simply won’t. This is simply not true. Pro-life advocates do not have the power to say which children live and which ones die. The federal courts did that when they ruled that no unborn children have a right to life. Given that legal environment, effective pro-lifers are immediatists in principle and ..read more

One of the five tenets of abolitionists is that abortion abolition ought to be immediate. We call for the immediate abolition of human abortion. The reason this is one of the tenets is because there is a contrast between this position and the efforts of the pro-life movement over the last 42 years. Over 42 years, the pro-life movement has attempted, through legislation, not in one fell swoop to abolish all human abortion, but rather to nibble away at the edges of the cultural accepted practice of abortion. Examples include making abortion clinics more regulated, under the assumption that some ..read more