At the urging of a friend I reached out to my Senators to express opposition to the Women’s Healthcare Protection Act. This legislation would supersede state laws on the issue and make it legal to access and perform an abortion in all 50 states, nullifying the laws in at least 19 states which currently seek to limit abortion outright.
Though the Senate voted against the legislation on February 28th, I did not receive a reply from one of my Senators until today. Below I’ve posted replicas of the form letter emails I received from Senators Sinema and Kelly.
My message said in part,
I urge you to vote “NO” on the so-called Women’s Health Protection Act. This bill does not protect women, but it does protect abortion businesses, pimps and sex-traffickers, and fathers shirking their responsibility. If you vote for this bill, then you side with people who profit off of women’s bodies. How is that an act of protection?
Email to US Senate members re: S.1975 / H.R.3755
I also added that I know firsthand the pain of child loss due to abortion and the ongoing deception and uninformed consent abortion businesses engage in. I’ve pasted the email responses below in case you want to read for yourself the half-truths, misdirection and pandering of these two representatives.
Senator Kelly summarized my concern as being about abortion rights, while Senator Sinema said I was concerned about women’s reproductive health care; each chose to ignore the real concern. They went on to school me on Roe v Wade. Kelly said, “[T]he Constitution protects a person’s right to choose to have an abortion without undue government restrictions.” Pandering to the transgender community aside (apparently men need abortions too), this is not what the Supreme Court found at all in 1973. The Roe ruling found the Constitution protected a woman’s right to an abortion prior to the viability of the fetus.
What is so striking to me in these responses is the erasure of the prenatal children in the official communication from our government officials. Neither Sinema nor Kelly has even one word of their hundreds defending abortion spoken on behalf of the other life present in every single pregnancy, and at the center of every woman’s pregnancy decision.
But neither response addressed the inherent safety risks of the burgeoning self-managed abortion which their legislation also sought to address. Medical abortion, aka DIY or self-managed abortion represents 40 percent of abortions taking place today. The abortion pills were approved for use in 2000; a new study looked at the safety record and found:
Significant morbidity and mortality have occurred following the use of mifepristone as an abortifacient. A pre-abortion ultrasound should be required to rule out ectopic pregnancy and confirm gestational age. The FDA AER system is inadequate and significantly underestimates the adverse events from mifepristone.
Issues in Law and Medicine, Spring 2021
The researchers also recommended a mandatory registry as “essential considering the number of ongoing pregnancies especially considering the known teratogenicity [causing fetal defects] of misoprostol.”
But wait. There’s more. The researchers took strong issue with the government policy of exempting abortion business from public health restrictions during COVID lockdowns, saying,
“The decision to prevent the FDA from enforcing risk evaluation and mitigation strategies (REMS) during the COVID-19 pandemic needs to be reversed and REMS must be strengthened.”
If these US Senators truly intended to protect women’s health through legislation, why are they expanding abortion access while diminishing even the evaluation of practices known to carry great and grave risks to women’s health.
As was expected, the measure failed in the Senate, with members largely voting along party lines. The sad coverage in mainstream media took a wistful tone at abortion-friendly Vox, which noted, “Democrats wanted to show voters they tried on abortion rights.”
I took my stand as well.
Have you?
What does Scripture say?
God’s Word says woe awaits those who call evil good and good evil. (Isaiah 5:20) It is wrong to intentionally kill an innocent human being. Abortion is the killing of an innocent human being. Therefore abortion is morally wrong. To call it healthcare or healthcare protection while ending the life of a prenatal child is evil.
But as the Scriptures tell us in 2 Corinthians 4:4, “The god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” It seems apparent that otherwise intelligent compassionate people are also blind to both the existence and the value of human lives before birth.
Jesus Himself noted that God’s love ought to draw us to Him, assuring He did not come to condemn but to save, and yet people prefer darkness for fear their evil will be exposed (see John 3:16-21).
Raise your voice, pray for those blinded by the spirit of the age, and for those being led away to death. Your voice matters.
