{"id":300228,"date":"2023-10-17T12:37:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T17:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=300228"},"modified":"2023-10-17T20:50:51","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T01:50:51","slug":"martha-plimpton-stereotypes-pro-lifers-oped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/martha-plimpton-stereotypes-pro-lifers-oped\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Martha Plimpton trots out inaccuracies and false stereotypes of pro-lifers in op-ed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Actress Martha Plimpton has never been shy about discussing her numerous abortions. She said recently in an op-ed for The Daily Beast<\/a> that she feels no shame regarding her abortions \u2014 only gratitude \u2014 and that since Roe v. Wade<\/em> was overturned, she has watched the passage of laws protecting preborn human beings “with a mix of horror and outrage.” Earlier this month, she headed a fundraiser that benefited her own pro-abortion group.<\/p>\n

Pregnancy as a “magical miracle”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plimpton claims that pro-lifers are na\u00efve about pregnancy, as if it is always rainbows and sunshine. She says, “Pregnancy is not always the magical miracle that antis [those who oppose abortion] would have you believe. It’s a complicated, messy, often dangerous medical reality that can have any multitude of consequences for a person’s life and health.”<\/p>\n

But pro-lifers are well aware that pregnancy doesn’t always go smoothly and without issue. They know this because they have experienced complications themselves. The difference is that while eight percent<\/a> (8%) of pregnancies will have complications, according to Johns Hopkins, 95.7% of abortions are carried out for “elective or unspecified reasons,”<\/em> according to research compiled by the Charlotte Lozier Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For those pregnancies that do have complications, the American Association of Pro-Life OB\/GYNs says there are specific treatments<\/a> available to help both the mother and the child. But even when those treatments are unsuccessful and the pregnancy must come to an end, an induced abortion is still not necessary. Doctors can deliver the child and attempt to save both lives.<\/p>\n

Even if the child is too young to survive, delivering her is not legally considered an ‘abortion.’ An induced abortion \u2014 which pro-life laws prohibit \u2014 is when the preborn child is purposefully and intentionally killed<\/em> prior to or during delivery. In emergency situations, it may actually take longer to kill the child prior to delivery than to deliver the child by an emergency C-section.<\/p>\n

It isn’t that pro-lifers are blind to the fact that pregnancy complications exist. It’s that pro-lifers are not ignoring the truth<\/em>: that deliberately killing a living human being in the womb doesn’t solve health issues.<\/p>\n