I have been saying for months that the Democrat National Convention would be indistinguishable from a national abortion convention. And they’re doing great so far. Having an abortion van providing free abortions just outside the Convention is true to style, both for the Democrat Party and for Planned Parenthood. So is attempting to deceive the American public about how harmful Republican and Trump-led “abortion bans” are.
On the first night of the convention, three women shared abortion-related stories from the convention stage. I do not dismiss their tragic circumstances or deny that they deserve our compassionate help. In fact, I work to help such women every day all across the country. But I do object to the way the Democrat Party tries to twist these narratives to draw totally unwarranted conclusions.
Amanda Zurawski spoke about nearly dying from pre-term labor and the Texas ban on abortion. The fact is, however, that after the Texas Supreme Court considered her case, the Court made it clear that the Texas ban on abortion permits abortion to save a mother’s life and health.
In the words of the Court, “A physician who tells a patient, ‘Your life is threatened by a complication that has arisen during your pregnancy, and you may die, or there is a serious risk you will suffer substantial physical impairment unless an abortion is performed,’’and in the same breath states ‘but the law won’t allow me to provide an abortion in these circumstances’ is simply wrong in that legal assessment.” — Zurawski v. Texas.
If there is a dispute here for Amanda, it is with her doctor, who under Texas law only needs to exercise reasonable medical judgment that the mother needs the abortion. There is no need to go to Court, to blame the law, or to make a political case out of a personal tragedy.
Then Kaitlyn Joshua spoke, ostensibly to expose the horrific evil of Louisiana’s abortion ban that allegedly threatened her life as she was miscarrying. Again, the Louisiana law about abortion specifically allows abortion to treat miscarriage. The duty, again, is on the doctor to provide the diagnosis.
Finally, Hadley Duvall, who became famous in Kentucky for her political ads for Democrat Governor Andy Beshear, spoke of how her stepfather raped her and she could not abort the child in Kentucky. Hadley’s story — and again, I do not deny its tragic circumstances — assumes that permitting an abortion to a rape victim helps the rape victim, completely ignoring the experiences of countless women that abortion itself is a trauma. The last thing someone traumatized by rape needs is another trauma.
I serve as the Pastoral Director of the world’s largest organization for healing after abortion. My team and I help women who have been traumatized by abortion. Hadley raises her voice, but so does Serena Dyksen, who was sexually assaulted at 13 years old, and testifies publicly that “the abortion was worse than the rape.” Sarahi testifies to the same thing, as does Aryn Sylvester. And we can go on and on. For every story the Democrats want to highlight in their Convention and in their ads, we can bring forth a hundred others talking about how harmful abortion is.
If you care about women’s health, you should be paying attention to what abortion does to women’s health, not simply preaching a dogma that abortion is, by definition, healthcare and freedom.
There’s another dimension to the Democrat dishonesty on display this week. By bringing to the stage women who experienced health complications and sexual assault, do they want us to believe that they are OK with just allowing abortion in those circumstances? The Democrat Party opposes with all its might any law that would prohibit purely elective abortion. If they want to showcase their true policy goals, bring forward the abortionists who are paid to kill healthy babies of healthy mothers in the final months of pregnancy, or the woman I ministered to who had 26 abortions.
The Democrat Party criticizes the laws in Texas and Louisiana but doesn’t once mention that those laws also allocate substantial funds to help moms who want to have their babies, including in cases of adverse fetal conditions.
The Democrat Convention is an abortion convention because the Democrat Party is an abortion party — and a dishonest one. If they are so proud of abortion, why not show on those big convention screens how the procedure is done? Or how about just reading a description from the medical textbooks, in which you’ll find the words “dismember” and “decapitate?”
Or how about just being honest enough to admit that the reason abortion is a deeply contentious issue is that two lives are involved? Even the Supreme Court has admitted this over the years, which is why it did not put abortion in the category of a “fundamental right.” But for the Democrat Party, it’s just one-sided. It’s a woman’s reproductive freedom. No need to consider the rights of the baby.
It’s easy to win a debate by just eliminating one whole side of the equation. That’s not a debate at all; it’s self-serving propaganda, and in this case, propaganda that has flesh and blood victims.
LifeNews.com Note: Frank Pavone is the national director for Priests for Life.
