Guest post by Janet Morana
The truth about abortion is rarely reported in the left-leaning, legacy media.
When peer-reviewed studies conclude anything negative about abortion, they are ignored or – a new tactic employed by abortion advocates in academia – they are retracted. Movies and television shows that depict abortion almost without fail paint abortion as the best choice a mother can make for her unborn child.
The overturning of Roe v. Wade did not end abortion. Statistics (though less reliable than ever) show that the number of annual abortions has increased since 2022, when the Supreme Court reversed itself on the nationwide legality of the procedure. Chemical abortion, which invites mothers to spend hours or even days – at home or in dorm rooms – in excruciating pain and bleeding heavily, accounts for ever-increasing numbers of unborn dead.
Since 2003, the courageous and selfless women of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign have been countering the cultural lie about abortion by telling their own stories in public.
If you care about the truth, listening to the voices of these women is more important than ever. I hope anyone planning to attend the March for Life in D.C. (Jan. 23) or the Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco (Jan. 24) will make it a point to hear these heartbreaking testimonies.
In San Francisco, you will hear from Liz, a mother of two living children who had four abortions in six years. What we know from our work with Rachel’s Vineyard is that one abortion often opens the door to a second; the second makes the third possible. After her fourth, Liz will tell you, her life spiraled out of control.
“I lost my mind,” Liz says. “I was very angry, depressed, suicidal, hopeless. I became addicted to drugs. I had so much hate, fighting, and violence in my home. It was hard to love my children.”
Abortion changes women, even if they believe it is the best choice for them. At the March for Life in DC, you will hear from Esther, who got pregnant from a rape when she was 21 years old.
“I’ve never been the same,” Esther will tell you. “They tell you that having an abortion is just removing non-viable tissue, that it’s just a procedure, but nobody told me that my body would forever remember what I’ve done. That I would be consumed by guilt and regret, even though I was pro-choice, even though I was so adamant that it was my body, my choice.”
Abortion profiteers, and their henchmen in government, the media, academia and Hollywood, are incapable of telling the truth. At a recent Senate hearing on the abortion drug mifepristone, Dr. Nisha Verma, who kills children for Planned Parenthood, was unable to answer the question, “Can men get pregnant?” She knew the answer but she couldn’t give voice to it.
In the same way, they know a baby in the womb is a baby. They just can’t admit it out loud.
Abortion advocates have circled the wagons since Roe v. Wade was overturned more than three years ago. They don’t care about women, or the fact that so many mothers pregnant with wanted babies are being murdered or covertly given abortion drugs to kill their babies. They don’t care that, by the FDA’s reckoning, 11 women died from chemical abortion between June 2011 and January 2023.
They do not care that women like Liz and Esther suffered for decades after their abortions. For an abortion advocate, abortion is the only choice and it is always the right one.
Priests for Life National Director Frank Pavone is famous for saying America will not reject abortion until America sees abortion. One way to begin to see the truth about a procedure that cures no illness and leaves only death and misery in its wake, is to listen to the voices of women who chose abortion and discovered it was the worst choice they could have made, for themselves and for their children.
Find out where and when to hear the testimonies at ProLifeMarch.org
Janet Morana is the executive director of Priests for Life and the co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign. She is the author of Recall Abortion; Shockwaves: Abortion’s Wider Circle of Victims and Everything You Need to Know About Abortion – For Teens.
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