“Why are you so upset about abortion? Embryos die in miscarriages all
the time.”
“Abortion,” in its denotation, is in fact a neutral word. And a
miscarriage is a “spontaneous abortion.” But, of course, that’s not what is
meant. Most people aren’t familiar with those terms.
No, this is an apples-to-oranges comparison of two tragedies in which
the result is ultimately the same, but the culpability and preventability is
drastically different.

Harsh words, I am aware, but I don’t think we do the preborn, or the
women who might make the same mistake too many others have, any favors by
making our descriptions of abortion PG.
An
abortion is, typically, a willing choice. Sometimes it is coerced, and those
women are just as much the victim. Abortion being a choice does not mean there
aren’t complicated
and sometimes tragic circumstances around that choice. It does not mean
that a parent is fully informed. It
does not mean that post-abortive women, or women considering abortion, should
be demonized. But it does mean that there is a fundamental difference
between the choice of abortion and the uncontrollable event of a miscarriage.
A miscarriage is equally as tragic; it is the loss of a child. But it
is unpreventable. There is no willing choice. It just happens.
It is sickening to take advantage of women who suffer such a loss by
using their circumstance as a justification for abortion. They did not have a
choice. Most wouldn’t have made the choice. But, that’s what the pro-abortion
side does. It
uses rape victims to try to justify the other 99 percent of abortions. It
uses indigent women to try to justify all abortions. The side that champions
women’s equality uses the most tragic circumstances women face in an attempt to
bolster their arguments. Sadly, many take the bait.
This article is not written out of judgment of women who have aborted,
but out of advocacy for the women that have miscarried. I know some of these
women. Their loss of their child is not to be lumped in with the often-willing murder
of a child in a fruitless attempt to justify the latter.
Some people are killed accidentally when they are hit by a car, so we
should be okay with running down pedestrians in crosswalks.
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A garden in memory of children lost to miscarriage and women who have experienced it, at the National Memorialfor the Unborn in Chattanooga, Tennessee |
The unpreventable deaths of individuals does not justify the intentional
death of individuals. Such a claim sounds absolutely mindless in any other scenario.
People die of disease, so we should intentionally infect others. People fall
off cliffs, so we should be fine with throwing others off cliffs. People die in
their sleep, so we shouldn’t have a problem smothering them with pillows. It
doesn’t make sense in any other context. Yet for some reason, we’ll justify the
intentional killing of the preborn by saying, “Sometimes they die naturally,
too.”
One wonders how much thought is actually put into these arguments. To
salvage my view of humanity, I hope not much. It is a pretty sad argument to
have thought about for any length of time. From anti-abortion
outreach on the streets, I have seen
people jump through several totally different justifications for abortion in a
matter of minutes, so it’s certainly plausible. When you start with the premise
of abortion being morally justifiable, you’ll come up with anything to convince
yourself.
Abortion takes a unique individual who, for all we know, would
have been carried to term. It takes that individual, and by someone’s
choice and an abortionist’s hands, rips her apart. It may be done with a vacuum and curette. It
may be done by the abortionist grabbing body parts,
twisting them to break them off, and pulling the child out piece by piece, putting
her back together to make sure he didn’t miss anything. It may be done
through medication, killing her and inducing labor to deliver a dead child. It’s
barbaric. It’s sickening. And it is justified in the most barbaric and
sickening ways.
A miscarriage is a natural but tragic process. But that has little
bearing on how the parents feel afterwards. They did nothing wrong. Sure, the
end result of both abortion and miscarriages is the death of a child, but the
processes that lead to that awful result are worlds apart.
They’re not the same. It’s insensitive, pitiful, and appalling to say they
are.
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