Is the Pro-Life Movement Becoming More Bold?

Pro-life activist W. L Garrison wrote an open letter concerning his positions on the rights for the unborn.  Some say this signals a more radical pro-life movement.  Others say it is the just rhetoric without substance.  Below are excerpts from the letter.  I am curious what readers of the Patch and this blog think  Please give me your comments.  I will supply more details and my opinion next week.

I recently toured the country hoping to stimulate interest in the pro-life movement by making a series of lectures on the subject of rights for the unborn.  Everywhere I went I saw greater enthusiasm for the pro life movement   This was especially true in states where pro-life legislation has been successfully implemented.  This was particularly true in the South and less so in the New England where  I found people with more bitter contempt, opposition more active, detraction more relentless, prejudice more stubborn, than found from abortion mills where millions are made from the deaths of unborn children.  Of course, there were individual exceptions to the contrary.  I was more determined to lift up the rights of the unborn at every obstacle.  These challenges while saddened, did not dishearten me.  The sites of places where liberty was born only gave me more strength to win liberty for the unborn and defeat the anti-life movement.  Limits to abortion and rights for the unborn must be strengthened.  Neither time nor the political attacks of a desperate anti-life movement will stop the pro-life movement.  Until the rights of every unborn child is secure let the owners and investors in the abortion mills tremble.  Let all those supporting the deaths of innocent unborn children tremble.

Accepting the “self-evident truth” maintained in the American Declaration of Independence. “that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights -- among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,”  require a strenuous  fight for the immediate recognition of rights for the unborn.  There was a time when I accepted the possibility of achieving this goal gradually.  I take this opportunity to totally reject this prior assertion.  I publically ask for God’s forgiveness for my past timid positions.  I may now sleep with a clear conscience.  

I am aware many will object to my positions and language as harsh.  Is there not cause for harshness?  I will be as harsh as I am truthful and uncompromising as I seek justice.  I will not think, or speak or write with moderation.  Would you tell a man whose house is on fire to speak in moderate tones when seeking help?  Would you tell a man to moderately rescue his wife or mother moderately rescue her baby?  Just as they cannot act in moderation neither may I.  I will work in earnest.  I will not equivocate.  I will not excuse.  I will not retreat one inch and I will be heard.  

It is falsely stated that I hurt the cause for the unborn by the harshness of my tone or actions.  .  My actions and my influence will be seen differently in the future.   What is seen as harsh today will be considered a blessing and posterity will see me as right.  I thank God for the strength to overcome the fear of the power of those who oppose me and speak his truth in its simplicity and power.