Families are stronger when they know the truth about abortion, and strong families strengthen communities, states, and nations. The Left tends to hide the truth and/or lie about abortion, while the Right tends to put out the truth about abortion. Thomas Jipping and Sarah Parshall authored an article about how abortion was built on fraud.
Jipping and Parshall referenced an essay written by Dr. Chavi Eve Karkowsky, a physician who practices maternal-fetal medicine, and published by The New York Times. They claim that “the campaign for unlimited abortion is as fraudulent and deceptive as ever.”
From the beginning, the “right” to
abortion was built on fraud. Abortion advocates pushed states to repeal their
pro-life laws with baseless claims about illegal abortions. The claim that “thousands”
of women died from illegal abortions began in the 1960s and persists even
today. The National Center for Health Statistics says the real number was just
36 in 1973 – the year that the Supreme Court issued its Roe v. Wade decision.
The Washington Post’s “Fact Checker” column gave Planned Parenthood its worst
rating of “Four Pinnocchios” for that lie.
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court created
a fictional account of abortion history that long ago was exposed as radically
revisionist. The strategy behind Roe was built on so-called “scholarship” that
even the pro-abortion lawyers believed strained credibility. Pro-abortion
historians since Roe have tried to maintain the fiction, deliberately erasing
the 19th-century feminists and physicians who opposed abortion from
their duplicitous narrative.
Since 2022, when the Supreme Court
overruled Roe v. Wade with its opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health
Organization, abortion advocates have achieved most of what they said they
want. All but four states banned abortion from conception in 1973; 14 states do
so today. No state allowed abortion until birth before Roe; nine states do so
now.
Even the most restrictive post-conception
abortion ban, at six weeks, covers barely half of abortions. The laws in effect
in 1973 prohibited more than 90% of abortions; the laws in effect today allow
more than 80%.
The cataclysmic fallout of Roe’s
overturning – a narrative pushed by the abortion lobby – has not, in fact, come
to pass. Though based on her writing, one would be hard pressed to think that
Dr. Karkowsky thinks otherwise.
Back to Karkowsky’s essay in The New York
Times. The physician professes concern that women are using abortion drugs “far
from the supervision of qualified medical providers.” But the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration previously required such supervision for more than 20 years
after approving mifepristone, the primary abortion drug, in 2000.
That was the case until the Biden-Harris
administration deregulated the abortion pill mifepristone in 2021, ostensibly
because of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, the action made the pill easier
to get, more dangerous, and less predictable in its effects.
Among the changes: The federal government
eliminated the requirement of an in-person doctor’s visit to secure the
abortion pill, expanded use of the pill from seven to 10 weeks’ gestation, and
allowed women to obtain pills by mail.
This was foolhardy.
For a drug with known and serious
potential side effects (including incomplete abortions, severe bleeding, failed
abortions, and infection), the Food and Drug.
Administration’s regulatory determinations
made a dangerous pill even more dangerous.
In fact, FDA’s own warning label on
mifepristone states that complications from using the abortion pill can reach a
frequency of between 2.9% and 4.6%. In 2023 alone, that represents nearly
20,000 emergency room visits for medication abortion patients. And now there’s
an active disinformation campaign by abortion advocates about what state
pro-life laws say and how they apply.
The
authors continued with using the case of Kate Cox as an example. Her claim was
that the pro-life law of Texas did not allow her to have abortion. “It turns
out, as the Texas Supreme Court explained hers was also a fraudulent tale.”
Then
there is Cox’s doctor, an abortion advocate. He “chose not to make the medical
finding that, under the Texas statute, would have allowed her abortion.”
Instead, he “filed an unnecessary request for a court order that, thanks to the
lawyer’s decision, was certain to be denied.”
Cox
claimed that “she had no choice but to leave Texas to get an abortion,” but she
was actually part of “a legal hoax to sow seeds of confusion and doubt about
the state’s pro-life law.”
Abortion advocates spin other fraudulent
yarns. They claim that laws prohibiting abortion also block medical care for
miscarriage or ectopic pregnancies. Others say pro-life laws require that a
pregnant woman literally be at death’s door before a doctor may treat her for
complications.
None of these claims is true. Not one.
No
one can make wise decisions without honest information. Abortion is about ending
the life of at least one child. Individuals who know the truth about abortion
can strengthen their families, and strong families strengthen their
communities, states, and nations.
