Churches will need to take on a greater role in advocating for life after the passage of Amendment 3, according to the executive director of Missouri Right to Life.
“While the churches just did a fabulous job in this election cycle, I think we’re going to have to work harder in our interaction with people so they see Christians are compassionate, caring people,” Susan Klein says. “I think that is going to have to grow and develop as we move through the days ahead of us, especially when abortion clinics start popping up on every street corner, in every city.”
As reported in Metro Voice on Wednesday, Klein also said “Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry were able to deceive Missourians about Amendment 3 and we will now have unlimited abortion in our Missouri Constitution.”
Because organizations providing alternatives to abortion may run into difficulties because of Amendment 3, Klein encouraged churches to find ministry avenues for helping women choose life for their preborn children.
“Our churches are going to become more important in getting the message out” that women in crisis situations can choose life, she said. “They may even become more important in walking alongside that woman.”
Small acts of kindness can go a long way in helping women choose life for their babies, Klein added. One woman, for example, was considering an abortion because “she had too much laundry, and she didn’t have a washer and dryer at home.” But she chose life for her baby after people showed her kindness and bought her a washer and dryer.
“It may be something just as simple as that,” Klein told The Pathway. “Church outreach is going to be the key to helping keep our abortion numbers down until we can get the law changed back to where we can protect babies and women.”
Klein said Missouri Right to Life is speaking with its attorneys and with lawmakers about how best to respond to Amendment 3 on legal, legislative and political levels. But she was also clear that churches and individual Christians will be essential in the pro-life movement in years to come.
Florida and Missouri were among 10 states with abortion initiatives on their ballots, with South Dakota and Nebraska following Florida’s example in defeating measures designed to loosen any restrictions on abortion. Nebraska had both a prolife and pro-abortion initiative on the ballot. The former passe and the latter failed. Pro-abortion amendments passed in Arizona (62 percent), Colorado (61 percent), Maryland (74 percent), Montana (57 percent), Nevada (55 percent) and New York (62 percent). South Dakota defeated a pro-abortion constitutional amendment (60 percent).
As for Missouri, Klein stated they’re moving on with the work at hand. “As we move forward in Missouri, it is our goal to help women in difficult situations so that we can make abortion and other life-changing decisions unthinkable and families can grow and thrive in the State of Missouri.”
–Alan Goforth | Metro Voice