What is the cost of an abortion?
Some will read that question and respond, coldly and callously, with a simple dollar amount. To an extent, it’s an understandable response and one that illustrates our larger point. For the cost of an abortion cannot be reduced to a mere financial figure. Nor does reducing it to one victim appropriately capture the extent of the real harm that is done by the procedure. No, the actual cost is far wider and deeper than any of us can fully comprehend.
Abortion is a grave evil. It snuffs out a life. It permanently fractures a family. It damages a community. It distorts the futures of a whole state. In other words, the cost of abortion is a culture.
That is precisely what proponents of Amendment 3 on this November’s ballot are asking Missourians to sacrifice.
Read the full article in the Kansas City Star.
