By Judie Brown
Illinois governor JB Pritzker has given a new meaning to the famous Theodore Seuss Geisel tale How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Pritzker has doubled down on his dedication to assuring Illinois women that access to the abortion pill is among his top priorities. As he signed the bill into law, surrounded by women, he said, “As an anti-woman, anti-science, authoritarian administration invades our privacy, Illinois is holding the line and we are fighting back.”
But as we delve deeply into his pompous comments, we find that he is bucking not only integrity but honesty on the topic of abortion medication.
According to Live Action, “The states of Texas and Florida have filed a new lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), asserting that ‘the FDA’s approval and deregulation of abortion drugs have placed women and girls in harm’s way.’”
Notice the wildly different positions of these states when contrasted with the Illinois governor’s actions.
Additionally, according to South Dakota governor Larry Rhoden, a new advertising campaign promoting the abortion pill violates state laws. He said, “South Dakota has the most pro-life laws in the nation – I am proud of that fact. . . . This advertising campaign threatens the lives of children yet to be born in our state, and it also threatens the health of South Dakota mothers, as chemical abortions are four times as likely to cause a mother to end up in the emergency room.”
An Ethics and Public Policy Center research study took center stage on this topic earlier in the year, reporting startling findings underscoring the fact that the abortion pill is anything but safe for women, and of course it is deadly for preborn children. It recommended, “The FDA should immediately reinstate its earlier, stronger patient safety protocols to ensure physician responsibility for women who take mifepristone under their care, as well as mandate full reporting of its side effects. The FDA should further investigate the harm this drug causes to women and, based on objective safety and effectiveness criteria, reconsider its approval altogether. Women deserve to know the truth. Women deserve better than the abortion pill.”
At the very least, the pill deserves the label “hazardous to your health, deadly for your preborn child.” Yes, this is an optimistic recommendation made in our seriously sadistic culture, but it must be said.
The FDA is looking into the abortion pill, at least according to some reports. But the overarching problem will be, as it always is, the politics of the moment, the perception of the media, and the indiscriminate boredom of the public.
Where will the alarms go off today, if after a quarter of a century of silence on this poisonous pill, no one reminds the listener that every abortion, whether chemical, medical, or surgical, kills somebody? Do we surrender the truth or do we double down, acting as if lives depended on what we do? The answer is obvious.
That is why we applaud Carole Novielli’s cogent report on the ways in which the government and its abortion-oriented comrades have persisted in a deception that is woven out of empty cloth and rancid ideology. The evil that is being done in the silence must be exposed to the light of God’s truth.
And so, my friends, we will not “go gentle into that good night” but will continue to stand up and be counted. We will persist in teaching truth, we will insist on principle, and we will persevere even when we stand alone. Where truth is at stake, we can do no less.