On Christmas Day, I was in an urgent care. I gratefully walked out with prescriptions to help with a sinus infection. According to the FDA, you soon might be waiting for your cough medicine on line behind a woman getting abortion pills.
It’s hard not to imagine a scared young woman alone on Christmas Day. Walking into an urgent care, wanting an end to her problem. Death will always be dark and cold — in a particularly brutal way when it involves the severing of the bond between a mother and child. Whatever the euphemisms of choice, abortion is about a right to a dead baby — as the move by the FDA to make it possible to get abortion pills at a drug store makes clear. Chemical abortion increasingly abandons women and girls. To be left home alone with their dead babies.
If you’ve ever seen the movie Unplanned, you’ve seen just a window into the inhumanity to the mother — and child — inherent in leaving her alone with her dead baby’s remains in her bathroom. Unplanned is the story of a woman who left the abortion industry, and it was given an R rating in no small part because of that scene. Abortion is violence. The rating reflected that.
In life after Roe, we have so many educational and outreach opportunities and challenges. The FDA and others are not on the side of life. We must work harder and more creatively to reach women before they go looking for a prescription to fill at CVS for a dead baby.