How do I respond when someone asks me about sex-trafficked children?

People who are guilty of abortion or defenders of abortion often deflect that guilt by questioning why you are focused on abortion. Their argument boils down to a few ideas:

1. There are other evils like sex-trafficking that you could spend your time on. This is intended to portray you as someone who isn't prioritizing well, or someone who ignores some evil while purporting to fight another. Often, detractors will bring up homelessness or any number of perceived injustices in our society.
2. There are other evils that you do not agree are evil that you are not fighting for at all. This is intended to portray you as a hypocrite. Someone who permits one evil (children being killed in Gaza, e.g.) but argues against another. Or they will bring up immigration and "how ICE treats" people as if there is a single definitive thing happening that you ought to have an immediate opinion on. And when you don't, or your opinion doesn't agree with theirs, you are a hypocrite.

It is important to keep a level-head in these conversations and do your best to respond in a way that is helpful to you hearers and honoring to God. But in no way do either of the above responses invalidate your abolitionist arguments.

Let's take the first argument. Real evils or injustices that you agree exist, and that you are not at present working on. There are a few ways to respond. One of them is to compare that evil to abortion. T. Russell Hunter has taken this approach several times in Abolitionists Rising videos where he points out that what he is arguing is that abortion is legal, therefore since sex-trafficking is illegal, what he is doing is different and more foundational. The point is, sex-trafficking is already illegal (even if still practiced) so he doesn't need to be petitioning people to make it illegal. But abortion is legal, so standing on the street talking to people about it is not a waste of time.

Secondly, you could take the tack that says, "I believe abortion is a foundation issue that rests beneath others." That is to say, the reason I'm talking about abortion and not homelessness is that I think homelessness is a problem that is caused by a people who practice child-sacrifice. That is to say, I believe many of our societal evils exists because we murder children under the cover of law. Therefore, by taking the axe to the root of our nations problems, I'm actually fighting all the issues you are bringing up.

It's also possible to simply say, "Today I'm talking about abortion, an important issue in our culture, and I'm free to talk about those other issues (or not talk about them) some other day."

Now the second objection is harder to deal with--when the detractor is trying to do a gotcha by showing you don't really love kids because you promote a war in Gaza or you didn't wear a mask during C0VID or whatever their red herring may be.

Unfortunately, you may even have gotten something wrong on another issue. Maybe your stance on wars or immmigration or disesase control are actually wrong. As disapppointing at that can be, it doesn't invalidate your arguemnt about abortion. So train yourself to take the conversation back to the conscience of the person in front of you. That will be more effective many times than trying to convince them that you are consistent in other areas that they don't understand. And it will keep you from potentially defending a position you haven't thought through if they bring up something new to you.