By Judie Brown
We have spent decades working to help our brothers and sisters discern the simple fact that when a man and a woman procreate a child, that human being is as deserving of life as her parents. It seems simple enough, but as we know, rhetorical machinations, false science, and skewed marketing have resulted in a literal bloodbath, taking the lives of millions of preborn babies.
We advocate for the little ones persistently and consistently, and yet there are still deceit mongers who will go to any length to assuage the guilt associated with aborting one’s own baby. Of course they do not say it in those terms. Rather they say a woman has the legal “right” to choose abortion. These culture-of-death minions have grown so confident in their societal power that they now claim that any state law that bans or regulates abortion creates a risk of “pregnancy-related death.”
The facts are never on their radar because inconvenient truth could upset the financially rich business in which they are involved. Today, in 2026, we know historically that of the millions of children killed by chemical, medical, and surgical abortion, a tiny fraction is attributed to saving the life of the mother, and even that is circumspect.
According to a Students for Life of America article, “There are many doctors that specialize in high-risk pregnancies that can successfully treat both the mother and the preborn child as patients.” But these are physicians who recognize that during pregnancy the physician has two patients in her care, and neither is disposable. Such physicians do not view abortion as an ethical treatment. And sadly, there are far too few of them.
While Planned Parenthood and its allies achieve substantial financial support from American taxpayers, even though that amount is dwindling, the organizations that specialize in helping women seek real choices for them and their babies function without that level of support.
In fact, in the wake of the Trump administration backing down when it was threatened with a lawsuit by Planned Parenthood, one wonders what separates Trump from his partisan pals on the other side of the aisle who pander to Planned Parenthood by talking as if they really care about saving babies. The Democrats make no bones about their support for aborting children, while Republicans make shallow statements but do nearly nothing to help save the innocent.
Willard Cates Jr., who researched the epidemiology of abortion for the Centers for Disease Control, once said that pregnancy is the “number two sexually transmitted disease.” Contrast this grim attitude about pregnancy with the profound words of Saint John Paul II: “Motherhood is a gift of God. ‘I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord,’ Eve exclaims after giving birth to Cain, her first-born son. With these words, the Book of Genesis presents the first motherhood in human history as a grace and joy that spring from the Creator’s goodness.”
Every time we emulate the Holy Father’s words by saying that in pregnancy a woman becomes a mother from the first moment of her child’s existence, we are affirming the undeniable truth that pregnancy is a blessing. Only those who detest the power of God would disagree and label pregnancy as a disease.
This is why we insist on the truth with love in our hearts and courage in our actions. We are thankful to stand firmly in this truth (Eph 6:14) regardless of what the world and its maniacal devotion to death may do.