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\"Pro-ChoiceLast month, Live Action\u2019s Lauren Enriquez took Minnesota’s Planned Parenthood to task<\/a> for claiming they deserved credit for the state\u2019s falling abortion rate. \u201cWe plan to help keep that trend going,\u201d PP of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota president Sara Stoesz incredibly claimed.<\/p>\n

At the risk of stating the obvious, if her organization is correct that abortion is a perfectly normal, wholesome, and vital part of women\u2019s medical care, then who cares about its frequency? Why should Planned Parenthood (pretend to) make abortion\u2019s rarity a priority?<\/p>\n

Initially the line was that even though abortion was morally acceptable, it was still \u201cdifficult\u201d or \u201ctragic.\u201d But abortiophiles eventually realized<\/a> they couldn\u2019t specify just what was \u201ctragic\u201d about ending your son or daughter\u2019s life without casting doubt on its permissibility, so out it went.<\/p>\n

Their updated line now seems to be purely utilitarian. There\u2019s absolutely no reason whatsoever why anyone should think abortion is the teensiest bit immoral. Oh no. It\u2019s just that they can cost women a lot of money and be medically complex, so isn\u2019t it better for the patient to not have to worry about that in the first place?<\/p>\n

Well, sure. But you can say the same thing about any number of medical procedures. Yet you never see a politician or activist go out of their way to declare the need to reduce, say, the nation\u2019s root canal rate.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, there\u2019s another mark against Team Abortion\u2019s sincerity. When parents, doctors, or teachers do talk about preventing the need for root canals, or any other onerous correction to something that was within the patient\u2019s control, they\u2019re not shy about stressing the behavioral aspects of prevention. But when it comes to sex, it\u2019s \u201cslut-shaming\u201d to point out that there\u2019s a simple, proven method to preventing unwanted pregnancy that every woman in America has full access to for the low price of free. If they really did \u201cplan to keep that trend going,\u201d they wouldn\u2019t make abstinence such a dirty word.<\/p>\n

And wouldn\u2019t people who really wanted abortion to be less common be willing to at least consider some measures that discouraged them without outright prohibiting them? They would, but prenatal execution apologists in the real world are not. Consider Molly Redden\u2019s handwringing<\/a> at Mother Jones<\/em> about a proposed law in Missouri to impose a 72-hour waiting period on abortion, which she hysterically calls \u201cone of the harshest abortion laws in the country.\u201d Making people wait a few days before making such a monstrous, irreversible decision regarding another human live is about as soft as it gets\u2014how \u201charsh\u201d a restriction would it be to let people\u00a0steal, but only if they\u2019ve waited three days after their request for whatever they wanted to steal was turned down?<\/p>\n

Nobody who really meant what Ms. Stoesz wrote would recoil in disgust at such simple, non-coercive measures as making people wait a bit longer to stress the importance of rethinking their decision, or of simply showing them what the thing they\u2019re destroying actually looks like. No, those are the instinctive reactions of people who don\u2019t want abortion to be rare, because it benefits them ideologically, sexually, and, in Planned Parenthood\u2019s case, monetarily. Their words may say they dislike it, but their actions say they\u2019re in love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month, Live Action\u2019s Lauren Enriquez took Minnesota’s Planned Parenthood to task for claiming they deserved credit for the state\u2019s falling abortion rate. \u201cWe plan to help keep that trend going,\u201d PP of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota president Sara Stoesz incredibly claimed. 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