Our Lord, who ate with sinners, also confronted them. Love demands confrontation, because it cannot rest if the beloved is entangled in evil. Love seeks the good of the beloved, and this means it has to get tough at times to extricate the beloved from evil. Many think of the price of confrontation, but forget that there is also a price to be paid for NOT confronting. That price is that evil continues to flourish, relationships become shallow and superficial, and true leadership vanishes because the leader is no longer able to point out the right path, and will eventually lose the respect of those who look to him for guidance.
Abortion is a brand new cause every day.
Each day it is a new tragedy, demanding a new response. No, not for a minute is this a waste of time. We have no reason and no right to declare this cause lost. It can, must, and will be corrected again. All the teachings of the Church hold together in an indivisible, living unity.