Abortion-rights supporters continue to attack prolife pregnancy centers. They call them "fake clinics" and claim that they "endanger women." Meanwhile abortion-rights supporters remain blithely indifferent to facilities that actually do endanger -- and even kill -- women. They maintain this indifference even when the facility is a fake clinic -- a doctor's private practice advertising and presenting itself as if it is a licensed and inspected clinic.
But terrible fates have met women who trusted abortion facilities. Young girls have had to have hysterectomies before they were out of high school. Women have ended up passing waste through a stoma into a bag for the rest of their lives. They've ended up in mental hospitals, in nursing homes, and in cemeteries. And where is the prochoice movement's concern for these women? There is none. As long as the fetus dies, it's a happy ending. Even if there was no fetus, if the woman only thought she was pregnant, if she gets vacuumed out, mission accomplished. That's all that matters.
And it's not even the fly-by-night fake clinics. It's Planned Parenthood and the prestigious National Abortion Federation.
If even one woman died because she visited a pregnancy center, she would be a poster child for the abortion rights movement, front page news, showing up endlessly on social media streams. But there are none. Zero. Zilch.
When we look at the death toll, it's hard to defend the idea that the prolife centers endanger women and the abortion facilities provide safety.
Key:
FC = Fake Clinic
I don't know how to even begin to get the prochoice movement to care about women. I've been trying for over twenty years now. I've seen individuals learn to care more about women than about politics, but they all become converts to the prolife cause. And then, like me, they realize that they're powerless to do anything to protect the women who think that they can trust Planned Parenthood, NAF, and NARAL to look after their best interests.
It's the great paradox of our time.
Key:
FC = Fake Clinic
PP = Planned Parenthood
NAF = National Abortion Federation clinic or individual member
I don't know how to even begin to get the prochoice movement to care about women. I've been trying for over twenty years now. I've seen individuals learn to care more about women than about politics, but they all become converts to the prolife cause. And then, like me, they realize that they're powerless to do anything to protect the women who think that they can trust Planned Parenthood, NAF, and NARAL to look after their best interests.
It's the great paradox of our time.
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