By Judie Brown
Reading this title and recalling your child’s response to a loving admonition with the word “whatever!” gives you a sense of where I am going in this commentary. On the one hand, we have the facts, or in the case of parents, the rules, and on the other hand we have the Wild West. Or we could say, order versus chaos.
No matter how you want to characterize respect for family life in America, one thing is very clear. Those in the secular media are not your friends.
The most recent example of this is an article entitled “Trump Administration Quietly Redefines Embryos as Children in Obscure Grant Program.” Some are calling this announcement a Trojan horse, but in reality, the administration is simply stating the truth about a human embryo. Everybody knows that, or so we would presume in this enlightened age in which we live. But then again, the cultural commitment to abortion contradicts that one hundred percent.
The writer of that article finds many ways in which this definition is a threat to women’s health, but the truth is that every human embryo is a human being, whether there is a government program being discussed or a simple fact of life. The writer herself was once a human embryo, after all. So what’s the big deal? Well, as we know, truth always hurts those whose goal in life is to bury it in quicksand.
The same can be said of media discussions of pregnancy help centers. Yes, these centers have existed for as long as the pro-life movement has; in fact, homes for unwed mothers predate the official movement by decades. It is called caring about our fellow human beings, even when to do so requires sacrifice. These centers are the real front lines in our quest to save the babies and their mothers from the claws of abortion providers. They are unique in that they represent the true meaning of sacrificing oneself for the love of another.
For the record, there are 2,700 of these centers in the United States. Dr. Brian Clowes of Human Life International writes, “If we look at the number of women who have visited CPCs over the past four decades, we can estimate that these lifesaving centers have saved an incredible 12 million babies from abortion since Roe v. Wade. This means that 1 out of every 25 people you see on the street, at work, in church or at a sporting event would not exist except for the faithful labors of the tens of thousands of CPC workers.”
No wonder pro-abortion forces detest them so!
Moving on, it would be remiss for us not to mention that one media outlet reported that a “religious anti-abortion center finds opportunity in town without OB-GYNS.” The headline’s red flags, including the words religious and anti-abortion, tell us a lot about how the media perceives the work of nurturing efforts to affirm motherhood and pregnancy. As we have said before, getting pregnant is not a religious practice, and neither is the development of a preborn child.
But when foes of truth are hard at work dismantling it, any port in a storm will do, including misrepresentation and disinformation.
We must be constantly on guard because as Professor William Brennan once wrote, “The first and most basic defense against today’s unrelenting totalitarian gibberish is likewise common sense.”
The loon will say pregnancy is just another medical condition and abortion a simple treatment. But the honest person will respond with a simple undeniable fact: A human being is a person who exists at her beginning, and her DNA proves this is so.
Saying whatever to that brings out the loon in you, and nobody wants that.
Remember, the truth will set you free!