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Yesterday I came across this article from Washington Post: “A louder voice in fighting abortion bans: Men in red states”

*I encourage you to read it before reading my rebuttal*

Miscarriage care is not abortion, period. You can check out one of our first articles about this here. The WP article gives ear to some harrowing tales of problematic medical care practices, all of which shine a light on clear issues with current abortion regulations in states that have passed restrictive bills. The takeaway, however, is a fraudulent misrepresentation of the issue by men who (despite their admission otherwise) are not, nor have ever been, staunchly Pro-Life.

Abortion apathy runs deep; these men, having experienced difficult-if-not-horrific miscarriage mismanagement have thrown up a white flag in the fight against abortion. The reasoning presented in the article is a rallying cry for men who never thought much about abortion and now correlate bad practice with Pro-Life idealism.

An Example in Logical Reasoning:

If A is bad, and B stops A, it does not follow that A is good simply because B caused C which was also bad.

If abortion restrictions are resulting in increased maternal mortality due to an unwillingness or inability for medical providers to become involved in high-risk miscarriages, that is a failure of policy. Abortion, being the destruction of an otherwise viable or soon-to-be viable pre-born human, should have no correlative effect on true miscarriage management.

These stories of miscarriage mismanagement, rather than sobering the overzealous and advocating for better abortion restriction policy, utilize false acclamations of past “Pro-Life” views to buttress the modern glorification of baby butchering.

Mothers have a Right to medical care, as do their growing children. The cessation of a heartbeat or any otherwise necessary development in the fetus turns a pregnancy into an active or definitive future miscarriage.

However, it needs to be addressed that diagnosis of miscarriage, especially early in pregnancy, is not an easy thing to do in many cases. What we cannot afford to allow are abortion policies that make it too easy for a woman to cite health concerns and receive an abortifacient pill simply for doing so. Abortion is a grave matter. Indeed, gravely Evil in almost every conceivable circumstance. Our job as a Nation is to make policy prescriptions that do not infringe on the care due to women in precarious situations like those experienced by the Hamilton’s.

Sadly, if you read the article, you will notice all but one of the cases involved a fetus that was still alive. One may have had a fatal condition, another extreme anomalous growth and another likely to be stillborn. 
Love does not end when your grandmother gets stage 4 terminal cancer or Alzheimer's, neither should treatment turn to termination once your child is deemed in peril. I am not arguing that any of the babies in the article would have survived to term, rather, highlighting the macabre capacity for excited parents to turn towards destructive power rather than cling to hope despite the odds. For such a turn to be possible in one's heart they must begin fundamentally at odds with the concept of pre-born equality.
We will discuss the particular case of imminent maternal mortality in a later Essay; suffice it to say if a human fetus is a human life there are hardly any circumstances where one could even make a case for termination before natural miscarriage. 

So, give ear to the grave implications of poorly considered policy, but do not use them to overshadow the 99.7%¹ of pregnancies terminated without serious health risks as a cited concern. The overwhelming issue of abortion is elective abortion without sufficient cause. And even among “risky” pregnancies the vast majority resolve without serious health complications. Remember: there is 1 abortion for every 4 live births but the maternal mortality rate in the US sits below 40 per 100,000 live births or 0.04%.

-M.

Sources Cited:

1. Charlotte Lozier Institute. “Fact Sheet: Reasons for Abortion – Lozier Institute.” Lozier Institute, 24 May 2024, lozierinstitute.org/fact-sheet-reasons-for-abortion/#_edn6. Accessed 4 Sept. 2024. ↩︎