{"id":178323,"date":"2018-01-29T12:42:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T17:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=178323"},"modified":"2018-01-31T16:54:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T21:54:58","slug":"pregnant-leadership-abortion-fail-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pregnant-leadership-abortion-fail-women\/","title":{"rendered":"When pregnant women in leadership support abortion, they fail women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s 2018, and when a woman in a position of power becomes pregnant, society still has a tendency to assume that it will be impossible for her to do her job well while also being a mother. This is not just misogynistic; it’s one of the main reasons legal abortion<\/a> exists. But when pro-abortion women become pregnant, they don’t seem to realize that by working to expand abortion they are perpetuating the lie that women aren’t able to have children and be successful.<\/p>\n

Women have been working mothers throughout history, from queens in Europe to America’s own first feminists to the first female doctors<\/a>. They have proven that children are not barriers to success. Yet, since Roe v. Wade<\/em> legalized abortion 45 years ago, women experiencing unplanned pregnancies have been told that their pregnancies are powerful obstacles in their paths to success, which they can’t overcome. Whether it’s college plans, athletic dreams, career goals, financial struggles, or the fears of single parenting, women are told they just aren’t strong enough or smart enough to deal with the challenges in front of them and<\/em> give birth to their children. And women have been falling for this lie.<\/p>\n

In fact, a recent study<\/a> found that over 78 percent of women who seek abortion are being pressured to do so. Abortion isn’t liberating them, it’s breaking them. These women are more likely to use drugs and alcohol, to suffer from depression and post-abortion syndrome, and to consider, as well as commit, suicide.<\/p>\n

What’s worse is there are women in government fighting to ensure that more women continue to suffer under legal abortion without any laws to help protect them or their children from the evil of abortion.<\/p>\n

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Senator Tammy Duckworth wants abortion without restriction.<\/p><\/div>\n

Senator Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., knows what it is to overcome a challenge. She is a retired lieutenant colonel who served 23 years in the Illinois Army National Guard. Her Black Hawk helicopter was shot down in Iraq in November of 2004. Duckworth lost both of her legs and shattered her right arm in the crash. In 2012, she became congresswoman for Illinois and in 2014 she gave birth to her first child after struggling to get pregnant. Duckworth became one of just 10 women to give birth while serving in Congress. Soon she will become the first sitting senator to give birth, as she is currently pregnant at the age of 50 with her second child.<\/p>\n

Duckworth<\/a> has a strong list of accomplishments when it comes to helping mothers. She worked to make major airports comfortable places for women to pump breast milk for their babies. She helped mothers in the military receive personal time to be with their newborns and adopted children. She has co-sponsored bills for paid paternal leave and affordable childcare, and even worked to help student parents gain access to on-campus childcare – something Feminists for Life has been doing for years. But Duckworth also supports abortion without restrictions<\/em>.<\/p>\n

That means she supports this inhumane abortion procedure, done between 13 and 24 weeks of pregnancy, which dismembers a living, pain-capable child in utero:<\/p>\n