For about a half second after the leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion in the Mississippi abortion case that may throw out Roe v. Wade, people who support Roe dropped the talking points and told the truth. Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, tweeted that if men could get pregnant, of course abortion would be legal. Joe Biden talked about the right to abort a child. The dropping of the filter was a refreshing reprieve from the typical euphemisms.
For most of my adult life, we haven’t heard the a-word. The National Abortion Rights Action League became NARAL Pro-Choice America when I was in my twenties. Of late, the Left hasn’t talked about a supposed “war on women” waged by those who want to protect a mother and child. Instead, the phrase “birthing person” has been introduced, meant to include women who identify as men who get pregnant. While claiming to be inclusive, the term effectively attacks the beauty of motherhood. Faithful to this trend, a makeshift sign protesting a pro-life prayer vigil in a lower Manhattan Catholic Church recently asked us to stop harassing “abortion patients.” By “harassing,” they meant that once a month a group of us gathers for Mass at Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral Basilica and then walks about a block to pray across the street from a Planned Parenthood for the women and girls who find themselves there and for the conversion of those who work there.
Comments