{"id":233945,"date":"2020-11-02T17:18:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T23:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=233945"},"modified":"2024-09-20T12:29:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:29:47","slug":"veggietales-creators-what-about-abortion-short-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/veggietales-creators-what-about-abortion-short-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"VeggieTales creator&#8217;s &#8216;What About Abortion?&#8217; video falls short on facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A popular video about abortion recently released by Phil Vischer (co-creator of VeggieTales) and his podcast co-host Skye Jethani needs some fact checking. The \u201cWhat About Abortion? Should this one issue determine how Christians vote?\u201d video never discusses whether there are other political goals that would do more to save lives and promote the common good than protecting preborn children. It also fails to discuss whether pursuing other political goals necessitates that Christians should sacrifice a vote to protect human beings before birth.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the video minimizes the role of a president in protecting the preborn and the importance of Constitutional protections for the preborn &#8211; and it does so with false information and poor arguments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RvWD7ykNjCc\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>False idea: &#8220;Focusing on abortion&#8221; is a new thing for Christians.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In its very first sentence, the video presents the false information that \u201cthe early 80s\u201d was \u201cwhen evangelical Christians first started focusing on abortion.\u201d Opposition to abortion is not a modern evangelical fad. One of the very first documents of Christian teaching outside the Bible itself, the Didache (dated to the first century) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncregister.com\/news\/abortion-contraception-and-the-church-fathers\">says<\/a>, \u201cYou shall not murder a child by abortion nor kill a child at birth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>False idea: Restricting abortion is a recent trend historically.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The video later claims that restrictions on abortion did not begin appearing until fairly recently in history.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k7iS65pZ-lw\">This is false<\/a>. In 1868, the states widely recognized preborn children as persons. Nearly every state had criminal legislation prohibiting abortion and at least 28 jurisdictions labeled abortion as an \u201coffense against the person.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At least nine states explicitly valued the lives of the preborn and their pregnant mothers equally by providing the same range of punishment for killing either during the commission of an abortion, and at least 10 states considered abortion to be either manslaughter assault with intent to murder or murder.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In 23 states and six territories, laws referred to the preborn individual as a \u201cchild.\u201d And the same Ohio legislature that ratified the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepublicdiscourse.com\/2017\/08\/19758\/\">Fourteenth Amendment<\/a> called abortion \u201cat any stage\u201d nothing less than \u201cchild murder.\u201d Less than 100 years after our nation\u2019s founding, nearly every state understood \u201cperson\u201d to include prenatal life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>False idea: Who Christians vote for as president doesn&#8217;t really matter when it comes to abortion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The video also presents this idea: \u201cFor years, Christians have been told that who you support for president will either save or sacrifice the lives of unborn babies. This has led a lot of pro-life Christians to become single issue voters willing to overlook everything else about a candidate as long as they&#8217;re against abortion\u2026.\u201d The video states the argument for being a \u201csingle issue\u201d pro-life voter assumes \u201cthe president nominates justices to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court can overturn <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, and overturning <em>Roe<\/em> will make abortion illegal and save babies.\u201d\u00a0But this is an inaccurate description of the argument &#8211; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/straw-man-fallacy-1692144\">straw man fallacy<\/a>, &#8220;in which an opponent&#8217;s argument is overstated or misrepresented in order to be more easily attacked or refuted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The vote for president impacts much more with regard to abortion than Supreme Court Justices or <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>. The president can choose to support legislation that protects preborn children or outlaws abortion. The president can choose to veto legislation which seeks to expand abortion. The president can choose to support the Hyde Amendment, which halts federal taxpayer dollars from funding most abortions (and has saved over two million lives). The president can choose to support the defunding of abortion giant Planned Parenthood which receives over half a billion taxpayer dollars annually and commits 40% of all abortions in the U.S. The president can choose to protect the Mexico City Policy, which blocks U.S. funding from foreign-based organizations which promote abortion. In addition, the president appoints judges and Justices to the bench who will either support the right to life of every human being&#8230; or won\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>False idea: Roe didn&#8217;t really do all that much.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The video claims, \u201cthe Roe decision did not legalize abortion and simply reversing Roe wouldn\u2019t make it illegal.\u201d But <em>Roe<\/em> forced every state in the union to allow abortion and struck down the vast majority of states\u2019 abortion restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Even the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the most pro-abortion Supreme Court justices, said, \u201c[<em>Roe v Wade<\/em>] is an unusual judicial decision because it made every [abortion] law in the country \u2014 even the most &#8220;liberal&#8221; \u2014 unconstitutional in one fell swoop.\u00a0And that&#8217;s not the way the Court ordinarily operates.\u201d Overturning\u00a0<em>Roe<\/em> would return the issue to the states to legislate again, as they did before <em>Roe<\/em>. Therefore, many states could indeed choose to make abortion illegal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>False idea: The number of abortions before Roe were about the same as today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The video then makes a slew of incorrect and unsourced claims about the number of abortions before <em>Roe<\/em> and more, and<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lozierinstitute.org\/how-the-legal-status-of-abortion-impacts-abortion-rates\/\">ignores the massive spike in abortions<\/a> that took place after <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>. Notably, the video claims that even though many states had pro-life laws, doctors were still committing an estimated 800,000 abortions per year, asserting, &#8220;That&#8217;s about the same number that&#8217;s happening today.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is completely unsubstantiated. In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/pdf\/ss\/ss6015.pdf&amp;sa=D&amp;ust=1604348057871000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2nclID35hF7BL-VNc_rIcp\">the CDC notes<\/a>,\u00a0&#8220;Following nationwide\u00a0legalization of abortion in 1973, the total number, rate (number of\u00a0abortions per 1,000 women aged 15\u201344 years), and ratio (number\u00a0of abortions per 1,000 live births) of reported abortions increased\u00a0rapidly, reaching their highest levels in the 1980s before decreasing\u00a0at a slow yet steady pace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>More false ideas on health care, unintended pregnancies, and decreasing abortions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Michael New of the Charlotte Lozier Institute also debunked many of the video&#8217;s claims in the video <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Michael_J_New\/status\/1322191171213471744\">in a thread on Twitter<\/a>, shown in the screenshots below.<\/p>\n<p>New noted that &#8220;Evidence from the past 40 years shows electing pro-life candidates has helped reduce the U.S. abortion rate by over 50%,&#8221; and that &#8220;Republican-appointed Supreme Court judges have upheld a variety of life-saving pro-life laws.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-233946 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Michael-New-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Michael-New-1.jpg 595w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Michael-New-1-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Michael-New-1-500x510.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some of those laws, noted New, are &#8220;public funding limits on abortion, parental involvement laws, informed consent laws, waiting periods, [and] partial birth abortion bans.&#8221; He added that &#8220;&#8230; [J]udges appointed by Democratic Presidents almost always vote to strike down these common-sense, life affirming, pro-life laws.&#8221; In addition, he pointed out how &#8220;incremental pro-life laws reduce abortion rates and save lives,&#8221; and how the Hyde Amendment &#8220;prevents the federal government from funding elective abortions through the Medicaid program,&#8221; which also reduces abortion rates.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-233947 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/michael-new-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/michael-new-2.jpg 601w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/michael-new-2-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/michael-new-2-500x487.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hyde, New tweeted, &#8220;saves over 60,000 lives a year.&#8221; He also noted that while &#8220;abortions were taking place before Roe v. Wade&#8230; the evidence clearly shows that Roe v. Wade dramatically increased the abortion rate in the United States.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;According to the CDC,&#8221; he wrote, &#8220;in 1972, the year before Roe v. Wade, there were just under 600,000 abortions performed. By 1980 &#8212; just seven years after Roe &#8212; there were almost 1.3 million abortions. This is an increase of over 121% in just eight years!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-233948 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/michael-new-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/michael-new-3.jpg 598w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/michael-new-3-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/michael-new-3-500x477.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New called the video&#8217;s claims comparing abortion rates in Texas and Delaware &#8211; two vastly different states politically-speaking &#8211; &#8220;misleading,&#8221; noting that a &#8220;big reason&#8221; for Delaware&#8217;s abortion rate decrease was because &#8220;in 2016 an abortion facility owned by&#8230; Steven Chase Brigham was shut down&#8221; as was &#8220;the Wilmington, DE Planned Parenthood&#8230; in 2013.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-233949 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/michael-new-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/michael-new-4.jpg 598w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/michael-new-4-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/michael-new-4-500x414.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He noted that the video creators &#8220;present no evidence that a greater investment in health care will get abortion rates down,&#8221; yet &#8220;there are plenty of good studies which show that various pro-life laws reduce the incidence of abortion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New also noted that claiming abortion rates decline under Democrat presidents is &#8220;also misleading,&#8221; a claim he <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/democratic-presidents-not-cause-declines-abortion-rate\/\">previously debunked here<\/a> by showing that the abortion rate has dropped consistently since 1980, regardless of the president&#8217;s political party, in no small part thanks to state-level pro-life laws.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-233950 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/michael-new-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/michael-new-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/michael-new-5-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/michael-new-5-500x543.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New notes that Planned Parenthood has been receiving increased funding not because of the Trump administration, but due to increased reimbursements from state Medicaid programs, as noted in <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-funding-increased-medicaid\/\">this Live Action News article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>New also noted, &#8220;The main reason why abortion rates are falling is not because there are fewer unintended pregnancies. In fact, the unintended pregnancy rate has fluctuated since 1981. An important reason is that a higher percentage of unintended pregnancies are being carried to term. This shows the pro-life educational, service, and yes, legislative efforts have all been effective at reducing the incidence of abortion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-233951 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/michael-new-6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"596\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/michael-new-6.jpg 596w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/michael-new-6-300x283.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/michael-new-6-500x471.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New noted the video &#8220;frequently&#8221; claims &#8220;discussing abortion trends and statistics&#8230; [is] &#8216;complicated.'&#8221; New says it isn&#8217;t, stating as proof, &#8220;The U.S. abortion rate has fallen by more than 50% since 1980. A serious analysis of abortion trends during the past 40 years shows that pro-life political efforts have played &#8211; and will continue to play &#8211; a crucial role in stopping abortion and protecting unborn lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>New, an expert in statistics and the pro-life movement, easily dismantled Vischer&#8217;s video, which was poorly researched. The fact is that abortion is a human rights issue, not a religious one. And yet, people of faith have the opportunity to take action to help stop this horrific human rights violation through serving mothers and babies in their communities, and also through involvement in the political process.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to halt the literal slaughter of human beings in the womb through political means should <em>never<\/em> be downplayed, especially not by those speaking as purported followers of Christ.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular video about abortion recently released by Phil Vischer (co-creator of VeggieTales) and his podcast co-host Skye Jethani needs some fact checking. The \u201cWhat About Abortion? 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