Donations to pro-abortion groups are the hottest new baby gift, according to a recent article in the Los Angeles Times. If this isn’t the most contradictory thing you’ve ever heard, I don’t know what is.
“I wanted to bring a daughter into the world knowing that she could be anything, and that starts with bodily autonomy,” Melissa Connelly, a pregnant mother from Cleveland, told Sonja Sharp. “To have that right stripped a month before she’s born, and then to know she has more rights as a fetus — it’s absolutely absurd to me.”
It seems as though this mother is recognizing the fact that she is carrying a baby with living rights and value. She first assumed her baby’s gender, which I guess is unacceptable now, and, one way or another, accepted her baby is living!
“She … join[ed] scores of expectant parents across the country who are using maternity shoots, birth announcements and baby registries to stump for abortion rights,” the outlet reports.
As these things often are used to celebrate life and the baby, it is mind-boggling that the money will be used to fund the killing of babies, all in the name of reproductive rights. In fact, in a Washington Post article, it was found that more pregnant women were in support of Roe v. Wade.
“We’ve had [pregnant women] do social media campaigns for us for fundraising, and we have individuals list us in their registries in lieu of gifts,” Sylvia Ghazarian, an executive director of the Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project, told the Los Angeles Times.
Many of these women are using their pregnant bellies to make a statement that it is their choice to become a mother and that other people should have the option. Funds for nonprofit groups that support abortion rights have increased by 200%, according to Emily Forrest, a spokeswoman for the wedding registry website Zola. But what they fail to realize is that each individual does not have the ability to deem what life is and is not.
For example, just because one denies the fact that Joe Biden is the president of the United States does not negate the fact that he is the president. Just because one denies there is a living baby in the belly of a pregnant woman does not negate the fact the baby is still alive. If one mother decides to have a baby, she recognizes something is living inside her, but if another woman decides to abort the baby, is she saying nothing is living inside her? When did humans gain that power of saying what life is and is not? Until that argument is cleared up, articles like the one in the Los Angeles Times absolutely make no sense.
Esther Wickham is a summer 2022 Washington Examiner fellow.
