Welcome to a break point, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

According to the general social survey, the number of people who favor allowing abortion for any reason has increased from 42% back in 2012 to 57% in 2022. This, along with the repeated failures of pro-life legislation since

the Dobbs decision, reflect that there is a growing number of Americans who oppose legal

restrictions on abortion. It does not necessarily mean that there is a growing acceptance

of the practice.

And yet at the same time, we now know far more about the science of fetal development,

about the reality of abortion, about the harms of the abortion pill for women.

The pro-life case has only gotten stronger.

But there are still too many Christians unwilling to make it.

My friend Scott Klusendorf has spent a lifetime training pro-lifers that they can,

and they should make the case for life to friends, family members, and neighbors.

At the Colson Center National Conference in May,

he summarized how to make the case for life to hypothetical Aunt Betty.

Here's Scott Kluszen-Dorf.

I'm pro-life because it's wrong to intentionally kill innocent human beings. And the

science of embryology is clear that from the earliest stages of development, you were a distinct

living and whole human being. You weren't part of another human being like skin cells

on the back of my hand. You were already a whole living member of the human family, even though you'd yet

to grow and develop. And you know what else, Aunt Betty? There's no essential difference between

you the embryo and you the adult that would justify killing you back then. Klusendorf then

repeated his call for all Christians to defend

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