I’ve watched local pro-life groups save literally thousands of children by practicing the kindness you despise. That includes seeing them close a clinic in Rockford, IL that was killing several kids a week and ain’t coming back. One thing that’s interesting is that when the sidewalk people spoke compassionately to (in your words “coddled”) the “patients,” the clinic’s owner would try to drown them out with loud music or a truck’s backup alarm. Strange...he knew that if we “coddled” these girls, they would less likely, not more likely, to go through with an abortion. But hey, I guess he knew less about it than you after he was in the abortion business for 35 years or so.
Also, I’ve seen the number of clinics in this country shrink dramatically from sidewalk counselors, crisis pregnancy centers and other activists doing pretty much the exact opposite of what you’re selling.
In short, I’ve held babies that were saved from abortion because people started with compassion and delivered truth.
Meanwhile, I’ve never seen your approach work. Tell me, do you spend a lot of time at abortion clinics yelling “MURDERER!” at passing women? If not, why not? If so, how’s that working out for you?
I guess you’d say that smuggling Jews out of Germany was the solution, and massing an army to halt the slaughter was a bad idea.
You think "calling them what they are" is analogous to massing an army to halt the slaughter?
Let me explain the analogy since you missed it:
Should we save the victims one by one? Or would it be better to go after the killers instead?
Do we treat the symptoms as they arise? Or shouldn’t we instead treat the disease?
Do we save a handful of Jews at a time from death camps? Or do we march in with guns blazing and instead put an end to the evil Nazi regime that’s slaughtering them?
If these women are killing their babies because they’re “basically good people” whom our culture has convinced that abortion is not murder, maybe we could put a swift end to all this butchery by shouting far and wide that it IS murder. It’s worked in the past. What’ve we got to lose? (Except a smile of approval from certain of our fellow pro-lifers.)