{"id":259473,"date":"2021-12-21T18:37:09","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T00:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=259473"},"modified":"2021-12-21T14:42:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:42:54","slug":"abortion-supporters-pro-life-laws-miscarry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-supporters-pro-life-laws-miscarry\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion supporters again claim pro-life laws will hurt women who miscarry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With the increase in pro-life legislation comes the repetitious and false pro-abortion argument that claims ‘if abortion is banned, women will be thrown in jail, and doctors won’t be allowed to help women who miscarry.’ But this deliberate blurring of the line between abortion and miscarriage serves the pro-abortion cause<\/a>, inciting an unfounded fear.<\/p>\n

When Jessica Grose, author of a New York Times op-ed<\/a>, described her tragic miscarriage, she opened up about her agonizing weeks of ultrasounds desperately searching for her deceased baby\u2019s heartbeat. When it became clear that her baby had died, she made the heartbroken decision to have a dilation and curettage, or D&C, after weeks of no heartbeat and no growth. In Grose\u2019s story, the reader cannot help but feel for her tragic loss.<\/p>\n

Yet Grose tried to link her heartbreaking miscarriage experience with that of women in countries that legally protect preborn children from the direct and deliberate killing of abortion.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn countries where elective abortion is outlawed or extremely restricted, women are not given the choices I had when they miscarry,\u201d she wrote. \u201cAbortion restrictions create a chilling effect on medical professionals who are understandably concerned about being prosecuted for anything resembling elective abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n

But again, abortion is the direct and intentional killing of a preborn human being. In a miscarriage, a baby dies naturally in utero through no intentional cause<\/em><\/a>. Neither a mother nor doctor chooses<\/em> a miscarriage.<\/p>\n

Many times, mothers and doctors do everything in their power to stop a miscarriage, and in the case of a woman whose baby has already passed away, a D&C is not the cause<\/em> of the baby\u2019s death. The baby has already died in a miscarriage, and a D&C removes those deceased remains.<\/p>\n

It is disingenuous, deceptive, and dangerous to blur the bright line between miscarriage and abortion.<\/p>\n

READ: Why miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, and early delivery are not abortions<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n