Real solutions to women’s struggles all too often get sidestepped because of abortion.
Financial struggles, access to health care, problems in the workplace, relationships — even breastfeeding — are reasons people give to justify their pro-abortion stance. Killing unborn babies does nothing to address the root of these problems, but abortion activists persist in making the argument anyway.
In a column this week at The Nation, mother Nikiya Natale claimed she has enjoyed the “privilege” of breastfeeding her son, in part, because she had two abortions.
“Because my abortions allowed me to become a parent when the timing was right, I was equipped to overcome the barriers to breastfeeding in a way that many new working parents are not,” Natale wrote.
She began her column by remembering with joy the motherly “bliss” she felt when her son, her third child, latch onto her breast for the first time to feed.
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“Holding 8 pounds and 9 ounces of sweetness on my chest, still connected by the umbilical cord, he latched on within minutes of being born,” she said.
Natale could have experienced that joy years earlier with her first two children, but she chose to abort them instead, treating their lives as the problem rather than the circumstances around her that made parenting difficult.
When she aborted her first child, Natale said she was unemployed and struggling to pay off debts. She did not have health insurance either, making it more difficult to find resources to help with breastfeeding, she continued.
Later, she said she had a second abortion while working in a “toxic” job with no paid leave.
“While children born from these pregnancies wouldn’t have been doomed solely due to lack of breastfeeding, the key point is that I would have been stripped of the ability to commit to that process,” she said.
Her situation was much better when she became pregnant a third time with her son. She wrote:
My son had lip and tongue ties, making breastfeeding difficult from the start and leading to inadequate weight gain during early infancy. Thanks to the support of a lactation consultant, research, and the luxury of time, I was able to overcome these obstacles. Throughout the first year, new issues arose including an overactive let down, which is when the milk comes out too quickly; latch problems that left me physically wounded; and the complete inability to produce milk via breast pump, meaning that in order to continue breastfeeding I would have to exclusively nurse. Thanks to my flexible, remote workplace, I did not have to choose between working or continuing to breastfeed.
Part of her column, which recognizes World Breastfeeding Week from Aug. 1 to 7, did advocate for important reforms such as better workplace accommodations for breastfeeding moms, paid parental leave, increased access to prenatal and maternal health care – things many pro-life advocates are working to improve, too.
But Natale claimed abortion is also part of the solution. She even said she is “pro-abortion” because she “loves babies.”
Killing innocent children in the womb is not love, nor is it progress toward helping pregnant and parenting mothers. Abortions do not fix financial problems or increase access to maternal health care. They do not solve struggling relationships or help new mothers breastfeed. They kill unborn babies, destroying an irreplaceable, living human being and often leaving the mother with physical and emotional scars.
True solutions to social problems never involve killing innocent people. To achieve real progress for mothers and babies, society must begin with the goal of protecting every human life.
