‘We care about young women. We care about young children. And we want to make it possible to choose life.” Perhaps the mere fact that then-United States senator from Ohio JD Vance felt the need to say that was an indication that pro-life efforts to hold back the hand of the abortion industry in the Buckeye State would fail come Election Day 2023.
In that same interview with the Catholic cable channel EWTN, Vance also explained the financial and social pressures that single mothers especially feel when faced with unplanned pregnancies, believing “they don’t have any other options.” He was arguing for the freedom for women — and girls — to choose life. Housing shouldn’t be the pressure that leads a woman to choose abortion. Money or career should not be what drives a woman to the most intimate violence our culture tries to mainstream with euphemisms so the bloody truth of abortion is buried deep in the pain women suffer. Women see the death of their children as an expectation in all too many circumstances. Women are then meant to feel there is something wrong with them for their sorrow.
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