Abortion Advocacy in a Post-Roe World
Let's start with what we know:
- As long as people perpetrate abortions, there will be a certain number of women who die as a result of those abortions.
- If the woman dies from a "safe" legal abortion (Jennifer McKenna-Morbelli, Christin Gilbert), the abortion rights machine will minimize the death and wait for any bad press to blow over.
- If the woman dies from a quacktastic legal abortion (Karnamaya Mongar, Carolina Gutierrez),
the abortion rights machine will do the convoluted routine of "It's all
the antichoicers' fault because they regulate and inspect abortion
clinics and won't give them money."
- If the woman dies from a politically useless illegal abortion (Daisy Roe, Kris Humphrey), the abortion machine will ignore it.
- If the woman dies from a nice gory "back alley" style illegal
abortion, the full-blown, aggressive Blame Game will begin in earnest.
It will be Rosie Jimenez all over again but with the aid of social
media.
It all boils down to this: Abortionists will continue to kill women once
abortion becomes illegal. It's an inevitable side effect of their
trade.
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We also need to remember that Big Abortion will find out about the dead
woman long before we will. They have connections in public health
agencies that we simply don't, because they began planting them there
back when Planned Parenthood was still calling itself the Birth Control
League. Those connections will give them adequate lead time before
allowing the story to break. Public health officials will not be neutral
sources of information -- though of course they will pretend to be.
They will be a key part of the orchestrated media blitz, just as the
Centers for Disease Control was a key player in the media campaign when
Rosie Jimenez died. The specifics of which woman they manage to get
killed, and under what specific circumstances, will be well known to
them but will blindside us and leave us playing catch-up to find out
what really happened.
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The prolife movement already has everything in place necessary to
prevent there from ever being another abortion death. We have pregnancy
help centers. No woman needs to be without friends, help, and hope. The abortion machine has recently launched another assault on those who dare to stand in their way.
Exposing this effort for what it is -- a way to fatten abortionists'
purses and give more power to the abortion lobby -- needs to be a key
part of our strategy to prevent Big Abortion from creating and
exploiting another Rosie Jimenez.
