As the importance of the pro-life movement continues to fade within the mainstream conservative platform, many pro-life advocates have been left asking: What do we do next? When the subject of abortion has been downgraded — or even removed — in the world of conservative policy, how can we drag the fight against modern humanity’s greatest moral crime back to the forefront of what it means to be a conservative?

Well, Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, has an idea: Politely force pro-abortion activists to admit what they actually believe.

During a hearing on the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act — federal legislation which prohibits the obstruction of so-called “reproductive health services” and/or places of worship — Gill held abortion advocate and policy researcher Jessica Waters’ feet to the fire on what she actually not-so-openly supports. How? By describing what these “reproductive health services” actually involve.

After refusing to answer whether she supports “any limits on abortion,” Waters also agreed that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare,” while (as Gill noted) missing the absurd requirement that something that is a supposed moral imperative also be limited by rarity. Then the core of Gill’s success came when he asked Waters whether she has “a preferred method of abortion,” to which she finally responded, “I do not.” Gill then proceeded to outline the various forms of abortion — suction abortion, dilation and curettage, or dilation and evacuation — all while asking the visibly uncomfortable Waters whether she agrees that descriptions of these abortions “sound pretty gruesome.”

Here’s the thing: When abortion advocates are forced to face the reality of abortion — including using the word “abortion” — they wriggle and squirm and wrestle, because even they know the obvious evil that is at the heart of the brutal removal of a baby from his or her mother’s womb. If they truly believed that these “reproductive services” were mere medical procedures akin to the removal of a tumor or a cyst, then why do they rely on euphemisms at all?

Why don’t we hide behind euphemisms for other surgeries? When you have a rotten tooth removed, you don’t say that you’re going in for a dental service and start to sweat bullets when someone asks you what that means.

So why is abortion different? Well, because abortion is different. Abortion isn’t health care; it’s the murder of an unborn life, and the pro-abortion movement knows full well that if people saw what abortion actually involved, they’d be utterly repulsed. That is why they engage in rhetorical propaganda and repackage the entire subject to make it more palatable to the ignorant and the misguided.

And that is why advocates like Waters will fight tooth and nail to refuse to admit precisely what they spend their lives fighting for. Because when abortion is put under the spotlight in such a manner, all that remains is the truth. And the truth is, as Gill put it, gruesome.

So if you are a pro-life advocate wondering how to navigate a world in which the subject of abortion is quickly fading into political unimportance, remember that we have truth on our side, and all we need to do is help the world see the truth.

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