Confronting the reality that abortion ends a human life is something liberals don’t enjoy. For Nicole Auerbach of the Athletic, that means it’s preferable to silence a story about the bond between an athlete and his mother.
Auerbach took to Twitter to complain about a Penn Live story about Penn State linebacker Micah Parsons and his mother. Auerbach was outraged that the subhead of the story said Parsons was “spared from abortion” and was incredulous that the story was still up.
I cannot believe a legitimate news outlet ran “spared from abortion” in a subhead about someone.@PennLive published this Tuesday AM and it’s still up. https://t.co/TvyXkV4RWb pic.twitter.com/1U3dWwNxFS
— Nicole Auerbach ? (@NicoleAuerbach) April 22, 2021
Parsons was spared from abortion, with his mother Sherese believing something spiritual stopped her from following through. She already had two children and wasn’t sure she could afford another. A call from Sister Hall from the church talked her out of it.
It’s a fantastic story that is worth reading in its entirety. Now, Micah Parsons is on the verge of being selected in the first round of the NFL draft. He will become a millionaire overnight. But more importantly, Sherese says that he is her “biggest blessing.”
Parsons said he doesn’t think he’d ever told this story before speaking to Penn Live in a pre-draft interview. He thanked reporter Brian Linder for telling his story. But Auerbach is outraged that it is still up, because acknowledging the reality of abortion makes the liberals’ position difficult to defend.
@SportsByBLinder thanks for telling some of my story man really appreciate it!! https://t.co/JFVGva9fQm
— Micah Parsons (@MicahhParsons11) April 21, 2021
It is incontrovertible that human life begins at conception, when a single-cell organism with its own unique human DNA is formed. Ignoring this fact is what guides pro-abortion talking points, which water down the concept of abortion by couching it in euphemisms. But no amount of explanations about a “women’s right to choose” or “reproductive rights” or “clumps of cells” can overshadow that phrase used by Penn Live: “Spared from abortion.”
Parsons and his mother are not even explicitly making a pro-life argument against abortion or lobbying against pro-abortion policies. They don’t have to. Their story puts a human face on an issue that liberals try to sanitize as much as possible. The babies killed in abortions are unceremoniously discarded. But the ones who aren’t, such as Micah Parsons, are a living reminder of what abortion really does.
Parsons will almost certainly be drafted next Thursday. God willing, he will have a long and prosperous NFL career. But he is already a winner. He was indeed spared from a fate that hundreds of thousands of children in a given year in the United States will not be. His story is a reminder of what abortion really is: a procedure that is designed to end a human life
