The attorney general of Texas is suing an abortion giant who defies state laws to send Texas women the pills to murder their unborn babies. What this highlights is an uncomfortable fact that many conservatives want to ignore: Roe v. Wade didn’t end the necessity for pro-life work, it simply shifted the battleground.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Aid Access for illegally shipping abortion pills into Texas, where state laws forbid the deadly drugs. “Every unborn child is a life worth protecting, and Texas law reflects that fundamental truth. Radicals sending abortion-inducing drugs into our state will be held accountable for ending innocent life,” said Paxton in a Feb. 24 press release. “My office will defend the lives of the unborn and relentlessly enforce our state’s pro-life laws against Aid Access and other radicals like it.”
Abortion pills essentially starve the baby to death. They cause cruel and unjustifiable murder, and Paxton is right to target them.
Unfortunately, Paxton is one of the few Republican politicians right now who is very dedicated to standing up for unborn life. And yet as of January, more than two-thirds of Americans supported restrictions on abortion, according to a Marist poll. If the GOP would only tell the truth as aggressively as Democrats told lies for the last half century, Americans would majority be strongly pro-life, just as almost all Americans were pro-life within living memory. The reason Democrats change minds on such topics as abortion and homosexuality is because they never stop pounding their propaganda into people's heads. Then Republicans accept the "new status quo" and just try to be a little less radical, a little less compromised with evil, than the Democrats.
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Pro-lifers have all the truth on their side. Obviously, abortion "exceptions" for rape and incest make no sense, because a baby does not cease to be a baby because his or her father is a criminal. But it is also a disservice to the victims to have them kill their children. Indeed, numerous medical professionals and therapists have testified to the fact that abortion just adds to the trauma of rape victims. And as pro-life advocate Fr. Frank Pavone once told PJ Media, "You don’t start calculating how much terrorism is okay," neither should we estimate how many unborn babies' corpses is permissible.
Abortion is deadly for babies and damaging for women. In 2011, psychologist Dr. Priscilla Coleman cited multiple studies to argue that abortion is tied to an increased risk of mental health problems. A 2019 study found that women who get abortions have a higher risk of depression — even if the pregnancies were unwanted. Women, especially teens, who get abortions are more at risk of suicide, self-harm, PTSD, and trauma — even for years afterwards.
Most telling of all, according to Human Life International in 2022, “nearly 80% of rape victims who had an abortion later regretted their decision. By contrast, more than 80% of women who did not abort after rape were happy that they had continued the pregnancy.”
And even from a purely practical point of view, the United States is already seeing a dangerous population collapse, one masked by mass migration but threatening to reach shockingly low depopulation levels. Yet Americans continue to kill off the next generation.
The Founding Fathers put off ending the evil of slavery, and then it exploded into America's bloodiest war. Innocent blood cried out to God for justice (Genesis 4:10). Republicans need to fight the pro-life fight hard, for the sake of our present and most especially our future. We must ask ourselves — do we truly believe in the right to life affirmed by the Declaration of Independence or not?
