Democratic lawmakers, across the country, are hellbent on making the violence of abortion three things: unlimited, unrestricted and unregulated. New York, Maryland, Ohio, Oregon, Michigan, Colorado, Vermont, and New Jersey have all enshrined destroying our Posterity as a state constitutional right. They’ve struck down the most minimal common-sense protections like parental consent/notification, 24-hour waiting periods, and abortion facility medical regulations.
Pro-abortion leftists in Pennsylvania want to do the same thing. They will contort and distort anything to make it possible, even if it means manipulating tragedy to bolster their trickery. In a recent hearing, PA pro-abortion lawmakers pushed for a radical amendment (HB 1957) to the state’s constitution to make unlimited, unrestricted and unregulated abortion legal in the commonwealth. (Learn more about the extreme nature of current abortion legislation pending in the Keystone state.)
THE PARTY OF ABORTION & DISTORTION
Representative Chris Pielli (D) did what Democrat activists always do to promote abortion: exploit rape. “I’m asking all the men if this right [to abortion] should be protected by law…I keep hearing this from the other side, ‘Why do we need this?’ Without exceptions even for rape, incest and pedophiles. We’re not just talking about grown women; we’re talking about children. I’m asking all the men, fathers, think about this – husbands – think about what that means. Your wife will have to carry a rapist’s child. That’s more Taliban than American.”
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You know what’s Taliban? Ripping apart a defenseless human being limb from limb. You know what’s American? Defending the weak, not destroying them. There’s nothing Taliban about showing care for both mother and child. There’s nothing Taliban about people loving and supporting a woman through a hellish situation. I noticed that Pielli never mentioned anything about punishing the rapist. Now that’s Taliban. (See my video response to Pielli, here or here.)
THIS IS PERSONAL
I’m from Pennsylvania. It’s where I was born. Many say that I should’ve been aborted. Why? I was conceived in rape. But that wasn’t the end of my story. I was adopted and loved. I’m a husband to one amazing woman and father to four kiddos (two of whom were also adopted). I’m used to pro-abortion politicians demonizing my existence. But ultimately, was my birth the result of militant terrorism or merciful compassion? Like the enslaved Sojourner Truth’s passionate plea, “Am I Not a Woman?”, I’m compelled to ask the question: “Am I Not a Human?” I’m grateful for my birthmom’s courage despite her unimaginable trauma. Victims of rape need wholeness and healing not a predatory abortion industry that profits from fear and pain.
During the same hearing, Representative Danielle Friel Otten used the 2022 tragic example of a 10-year-old girl from Ohio who was raped by an illegal immigrant (a fact Democrats and leftist media always ignore) taken across state lines for an abortion. The state’s Attorney General insisted the law would have allowed such an abortion in Ohio.
Otten also falsely blamed women’s deaths on Texas’ and Georgia’s abortion bans. The Texas hospitals involved ignored what is legally allowed by the state’s Human Life Protection Act: “The [abortion] prohibition does not apply if a life-threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from pregnancy that places the female at risk of death or poses a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function.” In Georgia, both women were victims of so-called “safe, legal, abortion pills”, the main method of killing the unborn today.
Otten also refused, when later questioned, to simply identify what is actually terminated during an abortion. This exchange between two opposing female lawmakers is illuminating.
DISPROPORTIONATE IMPACT
Planned Parenthood-endorsed Pielli posted on X that “criminalizing reproductive health care decisions disproportionately hurts women and other people of color…We should be using our resources to help these communities, not to put them at greater risk.” Abortion hurts women physically and psychologically. It’s the leading killer in the black community. The impact is disproportionate. How many more black lives, like me, should die?
If Pielli really believes these communities need “resources”, why is his Party waging a propaganda waragainst the state’s pregnancy resource centers? Pennsylvania’s Governor Josh Shapiro (D) boasted about ending a once-bipartisan decades-long taxpayer-funded program for pregnancy centers. Another state lawmaker, Rep. Mary Isaacson (D), relies on easily debunked nonsense as she works to eliminate any option other than the violence of abortion. Democrats in Congress are doing the same thing – they smear pro-life women who run these centers and scheme to shut down life-affirming resources that make no profit from a woman’s pregnancy decision.
America’s pregnancy help centers provided over $367 million in free medical care and material support in 2022 to women facing unplanned pregnancies. Planned Parenthood neither offered free medical care nor any material support. Zilch. Yet Democrats will stand in solidarity with a multi-billion abortion biz that has failed, repeatedly, to report rape.
EXPLOITING EXCEPTIONS
The go-to defense for legalizing unlimited abortion is convenient. It requires no discussion about the devastation of abortion. The tragedy of rape accounts for less than 1% of our nation’s million annual abortions but is used 100% of the time to justify it. The Make Abortion Untouchable Again (HB 1957) bill PA Democrats are shilling for allow it for any reason throughout the entire pregnancy. These “exceptions” cases are just fodder for their “abortion is healthcare” fiction.
Most Americans reject unlimited abortion. Gallup shows that 54% of Americans want some kind of limitations with abortions (19% stating it should be legal in most cases, 35% saying it should be legal in only a few cases). There is a disturbing dissonance in voting over the past few years that belie these beliefs, which can be attributed to massive misinformation.
What’s happening in Pennsylvania is happening everywhere. The pro-abortion movement won’t stop fighting to make unlimited and unaccountable abortion a grim reality in your state. Vote like life is the first right. Never despair; truth does break through. Our efforts are not in vain. They bring hope and help to so many mothers and fathers facing unexpected parenthood. And sometimes, they defy seemingly impossible circumstances to make lives like mine possible.
