Pro-Choicers Making Abortion the Only Option

Since the overturning of Roe v. Wade on June 24th, 2022, pro-abortionists have been taking a different path to keep up abortion numbers: targeting pro-life centers. Roe v. Wade was the decision that claimed abortion to be a constitutionally protected right, which was both an immoral ruling and a clearly erroneous legal one.

The pro-life movement celebrated the overturning of the ruling, and pro-life centers geared up throughout the United States in preparation for supporting more mothers. Of course, the more militant pro-abortionists have been vandalizing such centers and firebombing them for some time, but a newer approach that has become mainstream is to try to shut down pro-life centers using the legal system.

Thanks to a surplus of media misinformation, it seems prudent to explain what these centers do. While the exact services differ, they generally provide counseling to help the woman to process the position she finds herself in, along with free diapers, baby clothes, formula, help applying for Medicare (to assist with birthing costs), and accurate pregnancy tests. Some of them also provide ultrasounds. The outrage (according to abortion enthusiasts) is that they do not provide, recommend, or refer women for abortions. Their entire aim is to support the new life and the mother, not to end life.

In Vermont, a law was passed (SB 37) in 2022 preventing such centers from engaging in “disinformation” without defining what that is. It further censors the centers' ability to advertise their free services (which is all of their services). Then the law prevents volunteers and staff from talking to women about their options if they don’t have medical personnel on staff. The law does not apply to abortion centers. Of course, it’s ludicrous to require medical training for a volunteer to explain to a mother that there is financial and emotional help available. Now, the Alliance Defending Freedom is representing a network of the centers in a constitutional lawsuit against the state of Vermont.

What is fascinating is how anti-choice such legislation is. Its purpose is to deny choice to pregnant women by shutting down these clinics so that desperate mothers feel compelled to go to abortionists. It might seem paradoxical for a group that has long preferred to call themselves “pro-choice”. Yet, it’s consistent with the method that has been tried for some time. The original appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in the Roe v. Wade case (1972) was about the removal of the right of states and Congress to legislate abortion. It attempted to use that court as a dictatorial power, eradicating discussion. They’re not pro-choice. They’re pro-abortion and pro-death.

One must also consider that pro-abortion clinics do not provide the services that pro-life clinics do. Planned Parenthood, by far the biggest abortion provider in the nation, doesn’t offer free diapers to new moms, or even inform these women that there are government programs that can avert the cost of delivery.

If a woman enters Planned Parenthood and explains that she thinks needs an abortion because of the costs involved with pregnancy and child rearing, they will facilitate the abortion, whereas a pro-life clinic will address the financial crisis and try to help. One approach aims for the death of a child, the other aims for the stability of mother and child.

The approach of trying to shut down these pro-life centers (also called crisis pregnancy centers) thus tries to keep women trapped in the fear that encompasses them, blinding them to the availability of resources that can help them. It shows that when women believe that they have viable choices, they choose life, and "pro-choice" advocates hate that choice.