Smashmouth or Sellout? How Men of Conviction Can Actually Work Together To End Abortion

Roe v. Wade is gone. The headlines said “victory.” The pro-life movement threw parties. Politicians took their victory laps.
But the blood still flows.

Abortion is still legal in all fifty states. The clinics still hum. Chemical abortions are quietly taking more lives than ever before.
So we have to ask the hard question: have we really won?

And maybe the harder question: why can’t Christian men who claim to love the truth actually work together to end this evil?

The War Within the Ranks

The problem isn’t just “out there.” It’s in us.
While the culture murders children, Christian men murder each other’s reputations.
We’ve got abolitionists calling incrementalists compromisers. We’ve got pro-life organizations that raise millions but never touch the root of the issue. And somewhere in between, good men get labeled, slandered, and sidelined.

That’s not courage. That’s cowardice dressed up as conviction.

If the church of Jesus Christ is going to stand against the bloodshed in our land, she must do it as a band of brothers — not as a brawling mob of self-righteous orphans. Truth matters, but so does character. If we can’t fight like brothers, we’ll lose like orphans.

The Dirty Little Secret

My guest, Jason Storms from Operation Save America, said it plainly:
many “pro-life leaders” don’t actually want to end abortion.

It’s a hard truth, but look at the evidence.
In states like Florida — with Republican supermajorities and “pro-life” governors — abortion remains wide open. Bills to teach embryology to middle schoolers get shot down by “conservative” legislators. Why? Because they want the issue to stay alive long enough to keep winning votes and raising money.

It’s the political equivalent of the Pharisees’ clean hands — “We’re pro-life, but not that pro-life.”
Meanwhile, the killing goes on.

The Real Battlefield Is Local

National politics has its place, but the real battle is local.
You don’t win the war for life by posting memes about Trump or DeSantis. You win it by discipling men, training fathers, and building churches that fear God more than public opinion.

Jason Storms put it well: “All politics is local. And if the pulpits in a community are silent, the politicians will be too.”

The pulpit leads the world. When pastors preach a soft gospel, you get a soft nation.
When pastors preach repentance, justice, and courage, you get Daniels, Davids, and Deborahs rising up from the pews.

So before we complain about Washington, maybe we should ask: what’s being preached in our pulpits?
If the gospel you’re hearing can’t make a man stand up to evil, it isn’t the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Truth Without Love Is Not Strength

It’s easy to swing the hammer of truth. It’s harder to wield it with love.
Some men in the abolitionist movement saw clearly that abortion is murder — and they were right. But too often that zeal turned into contempt for anyone who wasn’t as radical as they were.

The result? The movement began to eat itself.

As Storms pointed out, you can have zeal without knowledge, and you can have conviction without wisdom. Both destroy what they claim to defend.
We don’t need young men who are simply angry. We need men who are dangerous and disciplined — warriors with calloused hands and soft hearts.

Christ was both the Lion and the Lamb.
He flipped tables — but He also washed feet.
That’s the balance of masculine virtue.

How Men Disagree Matters

Recently, Jeff Durbin and Doug Wilson debated the issue of abolition versus incrementalism. It was a rare sight: men who disagreed on tactics but treated each other as brothers. They didn’t compromise truth, but they didn’t lose their dignity either.

That’s what Christian disagreement should look like — iron sharpening iron, not iron stabbing iron.

Too many men confuse being abrasive with being bold. They think mockery equals courage. They think snark equals strength. But as Storms said, “It’s not a masculine flex to be disrespectful.”

The world doesn’t need more loudmouths. It needs men who can speak the truth in love — who can rebuke evil and still build unity around the gospel.

The Pulpit Must Lead Again

America doesn’t have a political problem. It has a pulpits problem.
When pastors become nice instead of noble, sentimental instead of strong, the world fills the vacuum.

A feminine Christianity produces a weak nation.
But a masculine Christianity — one that preaches repentance, judgment, and redemption — produces order, courage, and life.

If you want to end abortion, start by ending cowardice in the pulpit.
If you want to save babies, raise up fathers.
If you want to build a righteous nation, disciple men who fear God more than they fear social media.

Build. Fight. Protect. Lead.

The abortion battle isn’t just about laws — it’s about lordship.
Who rules the womb, the family, the church, the state? Christ or chaos?

Ending abortion isn’t just about winning arguments or passing bills. It’s about building a culture where fathers lead, pastors shepherd, and men act like men.

So let’s stop sniping at one another. Let’s stand shoulder to shoulder.
Truth and grace. Strength and tenderness. Courage and humility.

That’s how Christian men fight — and that’s how, by God’s grace, we win.

Men need truth. Men need strength. Men need Christ.
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