Dear Pro-Choice Friends,

It has been a perplexing three decades for those of us who are pro-life. We have been keenly aware of you, our acquaintances and close family members who don't share our pro-life convictions. It is baffling to us—you are decent, hard-working people, people who do much for our communities and much for us.

But you do it all while believing in, and voting for, a system that, we have learned, hurts women and kills children.

The next 30 years, we expect, will see a return to normalcy on the question of abortion. The last 30 years—since the Jan. 22, 1973, Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade—were abnormal.

The wrongness of abortion seems so obvious to us, we expect it to be just as obvious to you, our loved ones. Likewise, the objections that seem so obvious to you aren't obvious to us.

Abortion is good for women, you say. But is it? As one pro-abortion feminist put it, women “choose” abortion like an animal caught in a trap “chooses” to chew off its leg. Statistics show that women are backed into abortion by circumstance, unsupportive mates and negative family reactions. Abortion seems to us to be custom-made for men, who, let's admit it, are usually the ones who don't want children.

We oppose abortion only because we're religious, you say. We know that the opposite is true for many of us who returned to the faith. By seeing that abortion is wrong, we realized that there is right and wrong. We first learned to believe in the unborn child, and to hope for his future, and to love him. Only then could we believe, hope in and love an unseen God.

To support “a woman's right to choose” is the sophisticated position, you think. But we are startled by the extent to which it relies on ignorance.

—The very name you use—pro-choice—is tailor-made to avoid the issue. You don't support a woman's right to choose drugs, to choose to abuse her children or even to pay or not pay her taxes. Only to choose abortion. Well, if it's really okay to choose abortion, then why do you get so mad when we call you “pro-abortion”?

—Abortion is the most common surgical procedure performed on young women, but the television news has never explained its mechanics, explored its complications or exposed the many cases of the abortion industry's malpractice, let alone televised an abortion (as it has every other common surgery). Why?

—Most Americans don't know that abortion is allowed, and is common, through all nine months of pregnancy; in fact, you probably don't believe it even when you see it written here. The major sources of public information omit this basic fact. Why?

The next 30 years will be different. An argument that can only win if it isn't spoken can't last for very long.

And the pro-life answer will be heard. Countless women have had abortions. Mostly, psychologists tell us, they repress the memory. They don't talk about it. They don't think about it. When they do, it is with anger and pain. Abortion will fall in the next 30 years because more and more of these women will speak out against it. They've already started.

At any rate, even if you are for abortion, you are still our loved ones. In the past, perhaps we've offended you. We're sorry. Please know that our difference of opinion on this matter isn't personal. We want you to see what we see because we care about you.

Watch the 30th anniversary commemorations of Roe v. Wade, and you'll see that abortion's days are numbered. Abortion activists will make a show of celebrating Roe v. Wade, but America won't.

We all celebrate the Fourth of July in enormous crowds because we all know it gave us freedom. But we know in our hearts that Roe v. Wade didn't. The only enormous crowds this Jan. 22 will be crowds of protesters.

We hope you'll consider joining us.