The pro-choice movement, nay industry, has always been a bit aloof. They have to be to sell the lie that abortion is really about a woman’s right rather than what it is: aborting a baby. Lately, that trend has worsened. While this obtuseness is undoubtedly the result of society being conditioned for decades that abortion is a right—to the debate being framed that way—it’s starting to become downright ghoulish and may backfire.
On Sunday, Mother’s Day, Cecile Richards, the CEO of Planned Parenthood, tweeted the following:
Nothing says “I love you, Mom!” like standing up for the right of mothers everywhere to get the care they need. https://t.co/uFRM9UeosH
— Cecile Richards (@CecileRichards) May 14, 2017
How about: “Nothing says ‘I love you, Mom!’ like standing up for the rights of the unborn!”
For a woman who takes more than $500,000 per year in salary from an industry that provides hundreds of thousands of abortions a year, that tweet is ignorant at best, disgusting, at worst. Roe v. Wade aside it’s still remarkable that the abortion industry has completely conned society, particularly young women, into believing that a woman’s rights surpass those of the young baby gestating in her womb. Science has not only scrapped this logic—many doctors believe life begins at conception—but the law does as well, with fetal homicide laws and the like.
It’s particularly baffling that Richards would essentially “troll” the unborn babies Planned Parenthood extinguishes by parading the rights of the mothers who carry them, and treating them as if they mattered more. All this on a day honoring women who chose not to have abortions and enjoy the privilege of motherhood.
The twisted mindset — turning love, even when confused or unrealized, into a weapon — seems to be common when it comes to the unborn.
This Australian jewelry company has made waves because they turn unused or “extra” IVF embryos into jewelry.
This couple tried IVF for six years and ended up with three children. They didn’t want to discard, store or donate the extra embryos, so they turned to Baby Bee Hummingbirds, which turned their embryos into a piece of keepsake jewelry. “Now Ms. Stafford has all of her babies with her every day – including seven embryos in her heart-shaped pendant worn close to her heart, always.”
While I can imagine the decision of what to do with remaining embryos must be difficult, Snowflakes is an embryo adoption program that has been helping couples with this for two decades. Certainly, that seems to be a more viable, and less grisly method than turning a tiny frozen baby into a necklace?
It’s only been a few decades since Roe made abortion legal but already the warped mindset that allowed babies to be viewed as commodities, as inconveniences, has twisted society’s worldview to the point that the life staring straight at their sophistic ways — the baby not aborted making a mom Mama, the embryo turned into jewelry — can’t be acknowledged for the precious thing it is.
Nicole Russell is a contributor to the Washington Examiner’s Beltway Confidential blog. She is a journalist in Washington, D.C., who previously worked in Republican politics in Minnesota. She was the 2010 recipient of the American Spectator’s Young Journalist Award.
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