{"id":255958,"date":"2021-10-27T12:38:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T17:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=255958"},"modified":"2021-10-27T10:57:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T15:57:28","slug":"secular-pro-life-president-supreme-court-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/secular-pro-life-president-supreme-court-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Secular Pro-Life president: No matter what the Supreme Court decides, ‘saving lives is the goal’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an interview with the Catholic News Agency (CNA<\/a>), founder and president of Secular Pro-life, Kelsey Hazzard, spoke about the myths and challenges facing the pro-life movement. She also discussed what the future holds for both pro-abortion groups and pro-life activism as the Supreme Court prepares to hear the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization<\/em> regarding Mississippi’s 2018 law restricting abortion after 15 weeks.<\/p>\n

The lie that women need abortion to succeed<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to CNA, dozens of amicus briefs have been filed in support of Mississippi’s pro-life law, and Hazzard signed one of those briefs, arguing that women’s “social, economic, and political opportunities” were increasing prior to the legalization of abortion. Abortion is not necessary, Hazzard says, in order for women to achieve socioeconomic success.<\/p>\n

“In Planned Parenthood v. Casey<\/em>, the Supreme Court said that even if Roe<\/em> was wrong, it couldn’t correct its deadly error because American women had come to rely upon abortion for their professional advancement,” Hazzard told CNA. “This is the infamous ‘reliance interest.’ And yet in the decades since Casey, abortion rates have plummeted dramatically while women have enjoyed ever-increasing gains in the workplace. Forget ‘correlation doesn’t not equal causation’ \u2014 they don’t even have correlation!”<\/p>\n

Hazzard, an attorney, said, “the fact that the highest court in the land attributes my success to the mass slaughter of preborn babies fills me with disgust.”<\/p>\n

“That is the polar opposite of my values,” she explained, “and I deserve credit for my own hard work.”<\/p>\n

When the Supreme Court determined in the 1992 Casey<\/em> ruling that American women were dependent on abortion in order to achieve career success, it implied that mothers are incapable<\/a> of having success outside of a family; that while men could be both fathers and successful career men, women were incapable of doing the same.<\/p>\n