You're Not Too Particular About Who the Firefighters Are; When Your House; Is On Fire.(abortion law)

There is a fire in our country which is raging out of control: abortion on demand. Since 1973, abortion has been burning a gaping hole in the fabric of our families, communities, government, and indeed the very culture itself.

But there is hope. You and your pro-life friends and neighbors are the firefighters who are working to put out the blaze by restoring legal protection to all innocent human life.

The astonishing thing is that pro-life people are erasing the boundaries that in the past have so often kept people apart. Today, differences in religion, education, age, sex, race, ethnicity, and occupation pose no obstacles to cooperation within the pro-life movement.

This is nowhere better illustrated than in the interdenominational cooperation that is the hallmark of the National Pro-Life Religious Council (NPRC).

In the mid-1980s, Candice Muller and I helped found the NPRC, which sought to promote communications and cooperation among the various "for life" religious groups that were operating independently within various denominations. Attendees at the first few meetings were somewhat guarded about whether or not this new organization might somehow violate their particular denominational norms.

At the time abortion was rampant, euthanasia was on the horizon, stem cell research and cloning were distant nightmares. NPRC has continued to grow because we set aside our differences so that we might better focus on the life-threatening threats that had already arrived or were soon to arrive. Before Pope John ...