Abortion Advocates Think Women Who Go to Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers are Stupid

If we were to believe our pro-abortion opponents (although why would we?), women who visit pregnancy help centers (PHCs) and decide not to abort are pretty much mindless dupes.

Here are two stories from last week which dig into what that tells us about what pro-abortionists really think of the intelligence of pregnant women and, for that matter, what supposedly PHCs do to them. We examine one today and one tomorrow.

Kathleen Parker’s opinion piece in the is headlined “Pregnancy resource centers help women. They don’t ‘torture’ them..“ She is riffing off of oral arguments the Supreme Court heard last week.

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At issue in First Choice Women’s Resource Centers v. Platkin was whether pro-abortion New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin could pursue his vendetta against pregnancy centers in general, First Choice Women’s Resource Centers in particular.

Gallager begins

No matter how you cut it, trying to shut down pregnancy resource centers is not a good look. Yet government officials in some blue states are targeting such centers, claiming they lure pregnant women who think they’re entering an abortion clinic and then, presumably, talk them into keeping their babies. What fresh hell is this?

But….

Cutting through the pettifoggery, it seems that the New Jersey attorney general wants to thwart donor support through exposure and implied threats of contempt.

In a word, yes.

Gallagher then examines, among other attacks, the pro-abortion AMA’s machinations before looking at where these attacks have led:

While these legal maneuvers have kept lawyers, doctors, nurses and laymen busy defending their mission to help women and babies, the war on the country’s roughly 2,600 pregnancy centers has become violent. According to a tally by the Family Research Council, more than 100 of these centers, pro-life organizations and churches were attacked with arson, firebombing and vandalism after the May 2022 leak of the ruling that reversed Roe v. Wade. Jane’s Revenge, a pro-choice activist group, claimed responsibility for more than a dozen of those incidents.

What about the “torture” argument? Au contraire.

Whatever compels people to donate time or money to help the less fortunate when they’re most vulnerable should be reason for celebration, not punishment. If a pregnant woman seeking an abortion wanders into a pro-life clinic, it isn’t as though she’ll be tackled, shackled into a birthing chair and forced to recite the Nicene Creed. She can leave. Instead, such “misguided” women more often find helpful staff members, in many cases a nurse, doctor, radiologist or sonographer whose mission isn’t to misinform but to help women in distress make informed decisions.

Pro-abortionists assaulted PHCs long before a provision of President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill Act” proposed to cut Medicaid funding to Big Abortion for one year if they received more than $800,000 in federal funding in 2023. This legislation just made them madder and more vindictive than ever.

Gallagher writes

Critics see the centers as the next frontier in the war on abortion, a conservative Christian movement to replace abortion clinics.

Really? A better explanation is

This seems less a hostile takeover than an adaptation to new circumstances, filling a void that’s not been addressed.

Exactly! A void that the Planned Parenthoods of this world can’t be bothered with.

Her conclusion?”

If feminism has taught us anything, it is that women have agency. It seems preposterous that someone as smart as the senator from Massachusetts [Elizabeth Warren] would assume that a pregnant woman can’t read signs or make phone calls to figure out where she wants to go. Who these days says that women can’t think for themselves? Only the purveyors of choice, it seems.

LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. He frequently writes Today’s News and Views — an online opinion column on pro-life issues.