Disregard for human life and sexual responsibility is at the core of the pro-abortion movement – Washington Examiner

The Left's reaction to the Dobbs decision, handed down last month, exceeded expectations. Some loudly claimed religion was invading the public square, while others declared that "women will die" as a result of the high court's opinion. The Nation even published an article titled "With Dobbs, Women Are No Longer Full Citizens. We Must Fight Back." The hysteria hasn't waned. And with midterm elections on the horizon, it will only get worse.

It is a decadent American society that is horrified at the thought of voters using the democratic process to restrict and ban access to a procedure that kills an unborn life. And make no mistake: that's exactly what abortion is. It's not just a routine medical procedure, which is what much of the public seems to believe thanks to nearly five decades of Roe, Casey, and a predatory and celebrated abortion industry. Abortion has been completely normalized in our culture and, as a result, is seen as a necessary good in too many people's eyes.

A recent study by Michigan State University is an extension of the post-Dobbs fearmongering. In it, researchers found that "over one in five Michigan adults do not want children." This is not exactly surprising given the fertility rate in the United States, which has been steadily declining for years. Last November, a Pew Research Center survey indicated an increase in the number of U.S. adults who remain uninterested in having children for a variety of reasons. But the Michigan State University release went further, stating, "Following the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, a large number of Americans are now at risk of being forced to have children despite not wanting them. If further precedents are overturned and birth control becomes harder to access, many young women who have decided to be childfree may also have difficulty avoiding pregnancy."

The language from Michigan State University and abortion proponents treats pregnancy as a virus that can be caught. Clearly, the opposite is true. Whether an individual is for or against abortion, there is no mystery about how pregnancy occurs. Sex brings with it both physical and emotional consequences. Conceiving a child is possible whether a couple wants to or not. Claiming that any number of people "are now at risk of being forced to have children" is to discard personal responsibility from the equation entirely. And that is both harmful and severely misguided.

But framing pregnancy as something that is forced on women and couples is the entire goal of the abortion industry. Take agency away from supposedly "helpless" adults, and the real perpetrator is the innocent child in the womb who dares to exist. It is the unborn child who is unwelcome and disposable, so long as the mother's "bodily autonomy" and convenience is at stake.

Whether it's a product of academia or the legacy media, this narrative is no less foolish or appalling. It is a deliberate distortion of motherhood and the female nature to pretend like women do not have a responsibility to their children inside and outside the womb. And it is a denial of human nature itself to pretend that capable and rational adults can shirk the consequences of their actions at no cost to themselves.

It doesn't really matter whether a couple wants to remain child-free or not. What matters is what couples do when faced with a new, growing human life for which they are responsible. As the pro-life movement has preached for years, abortion is morally wrong because life is a human right. In the wake of the Dobbs decision, that message is needed as much, and maybe more so than ever before.

Decades of lies from Planned Parenthood and elsewhere have created a callousness within our culture, one that justifies abortion and the destruction of a human being so long as the child is unwanted or unexpected. Dobbs and the reactions to it have exposed this cruelty for what it is: a blatant disregard for life and sexual responsibility.

Kimberly Ross (@SouthernKeeks) is a contributor to the Washington Examiner's Beltway Confidential blog and a columnist at Arc Digital.

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