The pro-life movement is making enormous gains and preparing the cultural ground for lasting political change, too. But we’re not there yet.

These are heady times for the pro-life movement. In the last few weeks, I’ve spoken at several pro-life gatherings. Each time, I can feel the energy in the room. The stalwart defenders of life sense that momentum is shifting our way.

No doubt the horrors revealed in the videos released by the Center for Medical Progress have helped turn public opinion against abortion on demand and especially its chief purveyor, Planned Parenthood. In fact, as I mentioned recently on “The Point,” According to a recent CNN poll, a solid majority of Americans — now 58% — oppose most or all abortions.

This is great news. But as recent failed attempts in Congress to de-fund Planned Parenthood show us, there’s still a long way to go — and even more work to do in the larger culture than in politics to make abortion as unthinkable as racism has become.

I say “even more work to do in the larger culture,” because that’s where the pro-life movement has been most successful.

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Think about it. One of the chief pro-abortion arguments is that we pro-lifers only care about life in the womb, but don’t take care of the women and their children once the babies are born. Well, no one can really make that argument today, although some still try. Pregnancy care centers outnumber abortion clinics in the U. S. 2-to-1, and families are lining up to adopt.

And many pro-lifers and churches have now turned their hearts and helping hands towards those women who did go through with abortion — helping them find healing and redemption even in the midst of their grief and shame.

The pro-life movement has also made great use of technology such as ultrasound and photography in utero to show women and the public just how human and beautiful babies in the womb truly are.