By Judie Brown
The Religious Community for Reproductive Choice is, by virtue of its name, a terribly confused organization. While it tells website visitors that “reproductive decision-making is sacred,” it never gets to the basic fact that such choices can result in death for someone else. This alone prompts us to question the underlying agenda of such a group.
Most recently, RCRC was discussed in an article aptly titled “Don’t Bless This Clinic.” Its author, Jack Butler, wrote that “their candor about abortion is perverse.” And he wisely wrote of their work, “Understanding the final challenge requires accepting that the RCRC effort is, if nothing else, effective public relations. If successful, it could convince ever more people that the grisly practice of abortion in fact represents true compassion. And it could, either by implication or by direct accusation, further the caricature of the pro-life cause by its opponents: that to be pro-life is only to be pro-birth, not pro-baby or pro-woman.”
RCRC is not the first organization to define the abortion of a baby as a compassionate act, but it does remind us of the danger inherent in deceptive publicity.
Take, for example, the ongoing hoopla about the safety of the abortion pill. We know that the pill kills preborn babies, a fact that is rarely admitted by mainstream media. But now we have learned that the pill causes adverse side effects in one out of every 10 women who uses it.
The Ethics & Public Policy Center’s latest study finds that “10.93 percent of women experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following a mifepristone abortion.” The organization urges the Food and Drug Administration to investigate these problems, which is a marvelous idea if the FDA really wanted to tell the truth!
Yet when the FDA approved the abortion pill for mail-order purchase, obstetrician Jessica Shepherd said, “Abortion is a form of health care, and it should be prioritized and not demonized.”
This is but one example of the lengthy history of FDA involvement with abortion chemicals, dating back to 1960, when the agency approved the first birth control pill. The government has, by virtue of its role in approving medicines of all sorts, been a catalyst in the lengthy and bloody battle over abortion and how it is to be committed.
Embracing abortion should not be on the to-do list of a government founded to defend and protect its citizens. But as we have said here far too many times, the government does not recognize the preborn baby as a human being, and thus she is fair game for the death peddlers.
In a definitive exposé of the abortion cartel, Father Paul Marx, OSB, wrote, “To be unwanted is not to be unworthy, is not to be worthless. Because unwanted, the unborn child does not deserve death.”
When those who love evil take center stage with their abortion-by-any-means advocacy, they are targeting the people they deem worthless. So, it follows that they also provide the devices or actions required to end those “worthless” peoples’ lives.
This is the stone-cold reality of what it means to condone and market abortion and to do so with government assurance that your deadly acts will never be punished, at least not in this life. Loving evil takes a village, or so it seems.
Yet those who value all human beings know with certainty that there is nothing sacred about killing people. It is abominable! And that is what we must unapologetically teach.