By Judie Brown
The headline reads “‘Grave and Serious Moment’ for Reproductive Rights.” If ever there were a more oxymoronic statement, please advise. But before you do, think about the following: Grave is a place of burial or an important matter. Serious is defined as something “sober” or “requiring much thought or work.” In other words, we could pivot away from the perspective of those hellbent on controlling one’s body and unpack the truth.
The above culture of controlled birth comments is designed to spread pessimism. But the reality is a different story. Propagandists never admit that when a preborn baby dies or a woman’s body is negatively affected by birth control or abortion, something very grave and serious has taken place.
It is not the stuff of melodrama; it is death, pure and simple.
The dead body of an aborted baby or the mutilated fertility of a woman results when abortion is committed or when a deadly birth control chemical is ingested.
Yet media hype is selectively focused on a bogeyman rather than on reality because their goal is to protect the act of taking a preborn baby’s life. While this is nothing new, after more than 50 years of decriminalized abortion, it has devastated the joy of parental expectation for far too many. Fewer and fewer speak in concrete terms about the fact that every pregnancy involves three people: the father, the mother, and the resulting nascent human being.
This is not a pro-life talking point; it is a truth substantiated by science, medical evidence, and common sense. Take the example of the Texas case involving a pregnancy-related maternal death. The media reported that Porsha Ngumezi died because of the Texas law banning some abortions. The media argument is that “abortion bans are pressuring doctors to diverge from the standard of care and reach for less-effective options that could expose their patients to more risks. Doctors and patients described similar decisions they’ve witnessed across the state.”
Yet the facts tell a different story. According to Texas law, “Miscarriage care is completely legal in the state of Texas. Texas law protects preborn children from abortion, which is the direct and intentional killing of a preborn child. There is no law that prohibits care for a woman after the child is already dead—and to claim that there is is completely nonsensical.”
The proverbial elephant in the room is that pro-abortion hubris drives media bias. And while more ways to get the news means more opportunities to access fact or fiction, it all depends on what you know. The public information choices you make can have grave and serious consequences on how you think about any topic.
When folks choose to believe what they hear or read without checking the facts themselves, it gives the melodrama followers a free ride down the mountain of deceit that is always more enticing than the hard road to genuine truth.
Realizing that the question “what is truth” has been a problem ever since Pontius Pilate (John 18:38) asked that of Christ, we still see the same scenario. But remember that Christ said that those “who are on the side of truth listen” to His voice. And that has never changed, even now in this melodramatic age.
The entire lexicon of the reproductive rights crew is top-heavy with disinformation, misguided altruism, and a complete absence of trust in the God who made it possible for every human being, including His enemies, to exist. And so we come to a commonsense solution: Look to the simplicity of Webster’s dictionary, which defines reproductive rights as “a woman’s right to choose whether or not she will have a baby.” The conclusion one draws from this is that the only aspect of a grave and serious problem should be the understanding of the difference between human rights and reproductive rights: letting a person live or denying that he lives.
The resulting body count will continue to rise until the deadly grave and serious melodrama dies in its well-deserved inferno.