{"id":248061,"date":"2021-06-27T09:27:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T14:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=248061"},"modified":"2022-09-28T12:54:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T17:54:27","slug":"nothing-realistic-pro-abortion-childrens-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/nothing-realistic-pro-abortion-childrens-book\/","title":{"rendered":"There is nothing realistic or ‘medically accurate’ about this new pro-abortion children’s book"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new pro-abortion children’s book called, “What’s an Abortion, Anyway?” has been fully funded on Kickstarter and is now available to order.\u00a0The book<\/a>, written by self-described “white, queer, Jewish full-spectrum doula” Carly Manes and illustrated by “brown genderqueer cultural worker and full-spectrum doula” Mar\/Emulsify, is said by its creators to be “medically accurate,” yet contains no photos of babies at different stages of development or details on how abortion procedures are carried out. Instead, the illustrations are flowery, filled with butterflies and bright colors.<\/p>\n

This is not a realistic portrayal of abortion in any way.<\/p>\n

According to<\/a> the book, “When a person gets pregnant, many different things can happen. Some people are pregnant for many months and have a baby. That’s what happened with you! Some people have a miscarriage. A miscarriage is when a pregnancy isn’t healthy enough to keep growing.”<\/p>\n

Only living things can grow, so to say that a “pregnancy isn’t healthy enough to keep growing” reveals that indeed a preborn child is alive<\/em>. A miscarriage is the tragic loss of a child through no fault of the parents, which can leave them with emotional pain that can last a lifetime. It is nothing to simply shrug about.<\/p>\n

The book goes on to explain<\/a> that there are different ways to have an abortion \u2014\u00a0like having a “special procedure to remove the pregnancy from inside a person’s body. Other people take medicine to stop the pregnancy from growing bigger.” It tells children that everyone who has an abortion has a valid reason to do so, and should be able to do what they want.<\/p>\n

Nothing about this paints a “medically accurate” picture of abortion.<\/p>\n

Throughout the book preborn children are not referred to as human beings, or babies, or even embryos or fetuses. Instead, they are referred to only as “pregnancies,” which deliberately obfuscates the truth: it is not a “pregnancy” but a living preborn child who is violently “removed” from the safety of his or her mother’s womb during an abortion. The abortion industry frequently uses this term, which essentially leaves the human child out of the equation of abortion altogether.<\/p>\n

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