Randall Terry is Wrong, Pro-Life Author and Speaker Declares

Until the law reflects what is right, we want to persuade as many people as possible to choose life.

Editor's Note: Speaking about a special ad to be played during the Superbowl featuring Quarterback Tim Tebow and his mother, Pro-life activist Randall Terry issued the following statement:

"The Tim Tebow ad will be 'pro-choice;' child killers have nothing to fear." 'Choose life' is a 'pro-choice' message; it presumes it is ethically and legally legitimate to choose murder. We want to take the 'choice' of murder away.

"The goal of the pro-life movement is the criminalization of murder (abortion) from conception until birth; the Tebow ad will not address this in any way."

In a press release, author and pro-life speaker Anthony Horvath took issue with the statement.

LA CROSSE, WI (Christian Newswire) - Pro-life activist Randall Terry's recent pronouncement that urging people to choose life is nothing short of endorsing the pro-choice agenda is generating concern from others in the pro- life cause. Author and pro-life speaker Anthony Horvath issued his own statement in defiance of Mr. Terry's position.

In Mr. Terry's release, he said that "'Choose life' is a 'pro-choice' message; it presumes it is ethically and legally legitimate to choose murder."

Anthony Horvath is a member of Lutherans for Life's national speaker's bureau and the author of a book, "We Chose Life: Why You Should Too." The fact that Terry's pronouncement strikes at the premise of his book is not lost on Horvath.

Horvath argues, "Terry is wrong. If it was legal in this country to steal cars and people were saying not to do it anyway, that wouldn't be an endorsement that theft is morally acceptable. My wife and I were given the choice to abort our daughter who had been diagnosed with spina bifida. Apparently, by choosing not to abort her- by choosing life- we actually were validating the pro-choice position. This is absurd. Maybe we should have just aborted her rather than validate the pro- choice position! Nonsense."

Horvath agrees that the Tebow ad will probably be 'warm and fuzzy' but contends that Terry misses the mark, "I wonder how Mr. Terry hopes to make abortion on demand illegal without first persuading a sufficient number of people that human life ought to be protected."

Horvath explains, "Persuading people is not easy work. It is precisely for this reason that the pro-choice movement did an end run around the people and promoted their agenda through the courts in Roe vs. Wade. Until the law reflects what is right, we want to persuade as many people as possible to choose life. This in turn will help change the law."

Is Terry's announcement offensive to those who have chosen life and dedicated their time and resources to persuading others to do the same? Horvath says, "I give no man the power to offend me. Regardless of what Terry thinks, every chance I get I will try to persuade people to choose life. However, we're all working towards the same goal and it's doesn't help to shoot our friends in the back."

Anthony Horvath is available to speak nationally. Reach him for interviews at director@athanatosministries.org.