A baby was born on February 2 because when a scared teenager walked in for her appointment at the abortion clinic, someone explained to her what would happen in the abortion: The doctor would stop the baby’s heart from beating. I’m sure the person didn’t use the word baby, but once you know it has a heart, it’s hard to pretend it isn’t a baby. The details don’t always come out, though. Abortion thrives in the darkness of euphemisms and lies — that abortion doesn’t hurt, that abortion is mere freedom and choice and empowerment.
Stand outside an abortion clinic someday and look into the eyes of desperately sad 17-year-old black and Hispanic girls and see whether you can keep those talking points straight. This particular girl was still early in her pregnancy, and yet the doctor would have to stop the heart from beating. The young mother wanted nothing of that reality. She left without getting the abortion. When truth is told, women are set free from the shackles of the lies of the culture of death that sometimes insists on abortion.
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