I don't disagree stable families are ideal. But when that's lacking, additional efforts are needed to help. Welfare isn't a diversion, along with having a family is being able to provide for it. Socioeconomic forces lead people to certain decisions, including abortion. I'm confused what your plan would be to address the underlying causes, with or without government; other than ban abortion, which wouldn't solve the other problems such as unwanted children or poor families etc. If those aren't solve, abortions will be pushed underground.
Christian unity is not going to come on everybody getting together in order to build the biggest welfare state ever in a society where welfare already exists.
Until Christians start out with the basic agreement that abortion is wrong, and that killing a third of each generation through abortion is truly horrifying to contemplate, there is no possibility of unity on the issue.
If welfare is the most important thing for you, well that is just great for you.
My plan starts with just sharing the basic horror of what abortion has wrought on society.
For people to use abortion as a pretext to "fix" society with more and more and more welfare without first bluntly stating that abortion is a blasphemy against all that the Incarnation stands for is disingenuous at best, and in my mind a diversion.
The way that this conversation started out was with someone saying ' conservative don't give a hoot about children after they are born, because they don't support my social welfare program' and that is nothing other than a lie and a diversion. What true unity entails is where those socialist Christians state that conservative Christians are not the only ones that care about the unborn, and that Christians on the left are every bit as horrified over what abortion is doing to society as they already know that conservative Christians are.
Christianity is not about government programs; it is about evangelizing the message of Christ.
And the message of Christ is this slaughter of the least of my brothers is a monstrous act.
That is the first premise that defines Christianity for me. What about you? From there socialists can work toward the goal of eliminating that holocaust from their own perspective, and conservatives can work toward the goal of eliminating the abortion holocaust from their perspective too. Christian unity is not going to come about by unity of method. It exists in the unity of the goal, with every one taking the path that they believe will be the most effective of bringing about the goal of a society where the infinite worth of all human life is acknowledged and believe in.
The proselytizing of the message that every life is made in the image of God from conception until its natural end is the Christian is where Christian unity is to be found.