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October 29 - October 31, 2024
The CDC puts the number at about ten thousand per year.[8] However, the number is likely far higher, as only a handful of states are required to report their numbers on late-term abortions.
“When you’re performing a procedure to save the life of the mother, it is not morally considered an abortion. Therefore, it is ethically permissible…. You act in the best interest of both patients. If the
death of the unborn child is a result of your intervention, that is a tragic outcome, but nonetheless, our priority is to save the life of the mother…. That can be accomplished without performing an abortion.”[10]
In other words, in a situation where the mother’s physical life is at risk, the baby should be delivered, and, if medically possible, helped to survive. In some cases, like when the complication occurs early in the pregnancy, the baby’s survival isn’t possible, so the mom must be saved by delivering her child. This is very different, scientifically and morally, from purposely and violently killing the baby inside the womb.
Those who advocate for the legality of abortion make the separation between born humans and preborn humans because we’ve all been fed a steady diet of lies—from the media, from Hollywood, from the multibillion-dollar abortion industry, and from the government—that abortion is a different, more acceptable form of murder. Actually, we’re told it’s not murder at all. It’s “planning parenthood.” It’s “reproductive freedom.” It’s “bodily autonomy.” It’s “women’s rights.” It’s not a baby that’s being killed, it’s “pregnancy termination,” the removal of a “clump of cells.” People on the side of
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unscientific terminology is adopted to make what’s always the gruesome killing of an innocent human more palatable to the public. A good rule of thumb is this: if you’re on the right side of an issue, you don’t have to lie to convince people to join you.
Every day, thousands of pregnant women are shown true care by pregnancy centers. According to The New York Times, pregnancy centers are “largely run by conservative Christians,”[24] a fact that anyone who has entered a pregnancy center can tell you. These facilities service thousands of mothers and babies every year by providing them with free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, prenatal vitamins, parenting classes, education courses, adoption information, pregnancy and baby items—and most important, genuine love. As of 2021, there were about three thousand of these centers in the United States, and
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Of course, the pro-abortion side doesn’t want you to know this about pro-lifers and the centers they run. They are incentivized both by profit and ideology to villainize the people keeping pregnant women out of abortion clinics.
Parenthood employee Abby Johnson has recounted on my podcast, Relatable: “If a woman decides to parent her child, that’s where our assistance stops at Planned Parenthood because we don’t provide any prenatal care. We don’t have any resources for her: baby items, diapers, anything like that. So essentially, she becomes a person who is not revenue-generating for us. We don’t want her in our doors anymore…. She’s now become a money drain on us, a time-suck on us, so we send her out the door. The only way that we could keep our patients as revenue-generating clients was to sell them an abortion.”
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Abortion providers use empathy—“I can imagine your situation, and a baby would be too hard to raise right now”—to lure women into believing abortion is their best option. Pregnancy centers like Prestonwood offer love and real support. As Christians, we have the option to be on the side of death and destruction and fake empathy, or we can be on the side of truth and love.
Feelings are often misaligned with reality and can actually blind us from—rather than lead us to—wisdom.
