(Washington Examiner) The polarized politics of our day has put pregnancy help organizations in the crosshairs. The fight is already at our door.
For a few, it’s already come throughtheir shattered windows. For many others, it’s been some other form of targeted vandalism, threat, or violence. For some, the fight arrives via the mail in the form of a lawsuit brought by the state’s highest law enforcement officer for trying to help women who have changed their minds about an abortion they no longer want.
Still others are experiencing the fight in the form of so-called consumer protection actions, calling the good work of pregnancy help “dangerous” for women, or via a barrage of false negative online reviews.
Wherever pregnancy help organizations operate, they are maliciously and persistently being referred to as “fake clinics” by abortion supporters, including government-supported institutions.
The Athenian statesman Pericles said, “Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” Some of that interest is positive where legislators in pro-life states are standing with life-affirming pregnancy help and orienting their state programs to provide women with alternativesto abortion.
However, this positive interest in pregnancy help, seen in a few legislators, is not happening everywhere. In other states, pro-abortion politicians are taking cues from their Big Abortion friends.
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The most “progressive” pro-abortion states have already moved to allow any abortion throughout all nine months and are passing laws to protect every abortion provider. These states have leveraged marketing campaigns not only to invite but also to subsidize abortion tourism. After all, this is what is demanded by radical progressive ideology and also serves the avarice of its Big Abortion profiteers.
But Big Abortion profit still faces its most consistent competitor over the last half-century: the pregnancy help movement. As the Charlotte Lozier Institute routinely reports, U.S.pregnancy help organizations reach more than 1 million women each year who might otherwise pursue abortion.
Let’s be clear, it’s not that pregnancy help organizations are speaking about something controversial or that a particular practice or procedure in these centers is controversial. Their very mission to help women have alternatives to abortion is being deemed controversial, even dangerous.
Just look at the campaign by Massachusettsagainst pregnancy help organizations or the consumer alerts published by attorneys general in Arizona, California, Minnesota, and New Jersey. These go beyond the charge of fake clinics to describe pregnancy help as a health danger to women. This is propaganda masquerading as politics. These are not politicians serving their constituents but political operatives serving Big Abortion.
Tweet This: The very mission to help women have alternatives to abortion is being deemed controversial, even dangerous.
This election year is all about abortion. Even if the word doesn’t appear on the ballot in your state, it is very much a part of what is being decided by the voters. Big Abortion is spending big money to get more of its friends into office. This is to keep power in abortion states, but also to create beachheads in pro-life states. It is also to directly or indirectly keep advancing abortion through the executive branch.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are the most strident pro-abortion administration in the history of the United States. While that’s not surprising, what might be surprising to many is how vocal and active Harris has been in targeting pregnancy help in particular.
We in the pregnancy help movement know that then-California Attorney General Harris was the original name in the NIFLA v. Becerra case, which concerned a California law that attempted to force pro-life pregnancy help organizations to refer for abortions. It was struck down by the Supreme Court.
But too few know that Vice President Harris, addressing the Democratic Attorneys General Association Conference, said: “You are taking on, rightly, the crisis pregnancy centers; launching public education campaigns … to combat misinformation and disinformation, which often creates a situation that is ripe for predatory practices.”
Did you catch that? Pregnancy help organizations need to be combatted.
What levers can an anti-pregnancy help presidential administration pull to damage our work and favor its abortion friends? Biden, Harris, and their team have already tried to use every angle in the executive alphabet soup agencies to override abortion regulation in pro-life states. Surely, Harris would spare no expense in waging a political war against pregnancy help.
With abortion on every ballot, supporters of life and pregnancy help organizations fail to engage in this election at their peril. Politics, especially the progressive abortion agenda, is highly “interested” in us.
Editor's note: Jor-El Godsey is president of Heartbeat International. Heartbeat International manages Pregnancy Help News. This article was published by the Washington Examiner and is reprinted with permission.
