“I kept my promise to Norma McCorvey” longtime pro-life advocate says
Less than an hour before she died, I spoke to my friend Norma McCorvey, and she made me promise never to stop fighting to overturn the tragic Supreme Court decision that carried her pseudonym – Jane Roe. After more than 30 years in pro-life advocacy, there were times I thought Roe v. Wade would outlive me, so I am elated instead to be on the verge of being able to say to Norma, “I kept my promise.”
The nation is much changed since two attorneys with an agenda found a scared and troubled woman pregnant with an unplanned baby and told them they could help.
But Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee knew they would not be able to secure a legal abortion for Norma and in fact, she never had one. The lawyers didn’t even bother to call Norma to tell her, on Jan. 22, 1973, that she had won her case and abortion was now legal in all 50 states. Norma had to read about it in the Dallas newspaper tossed on her doorstep.
Since we learned a month ago that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito had written a draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, the abortion-loving left has been out of its collective mind.
Many simply don’t understand the decision would not end legal abortion all over the country, or that regulation of abortion would be returned to the states. Half the states are expected to protect babies from all abortion, but that leaves two dozen states where abortion will still be available. Some of those states and at least a dozen companies will even pay women to travel out of state for abortion.
That alone shows you how completely crazy our abortion story has become in the U.S.
No state coffers or company payrolls are being tapped to help mothers choose life, only death.
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But what the left-leaning media will never report is that all sorts of options exist for mothers who want to keep their babies even though they see a struggle ahead.
The pregnancy center movement was in its infancy in 1973 but today pro-life pregnancy help centers outnumber abortion businesses almost four to one.
They do not – as so often reported – dispense only diapers and formula. They also provide parenting classes, job training, referrals to vital social services and housing, and most important of all, a human connection, someone to love both mother and child.
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Compare that to an abortion business worker who is interested only in emptying the contents of a mother’s uterus and sending her out the door as quickly as possible.
Women who are not ready to be mothers have always been able to make an adoption plan for their babies, but in 1999 states began implementing Safe Haven laws that allow mothers to safely relinquish their babies, with no questions asked or charges filed. From the time Texas enacted the first law until 2018, 3,500 babies were safely surrendered thanks to Safe Haven.
Single women with babies were once frowned on, perhaps most famously in 1992 when then Vice President Dan Quayle publicly criticized fictional television character Murphy Brown for giving birth without benefit of a husband.
Today, almost 40 percent of babies are born to mothers who are not married, and the stigma of single motherhood is almost non-existent. Even teen moms are featured on reality shows.
A teenage girl with a baby is not an optimal situation, but it is infinitely better than a teenage mom with a baby who was killed by abortion.
The left should hang on to what’s left of its sanity because legal baby killing will not end in our nation with the overturning of Roe v. Wade. States like California and New York are hoping to become abortion destinations. And like them, many states have eliminated all restrictions on abortion.
Tweet This: Some states & companies will pay women to travel out of state for abortion. No state or company $$ to help mothers choose life - only death.
Chemical abortion also will play a role in our new normal.
Approved by the FDA in 2000, the deadly two-drug abortifacient regimen makes up more than half of all abortions in our nation, and moms now can get the pills by mail without ever seeing a doctor. Many states have made that illegal, but it’s hard to imagine how it would be enforced. Companies that will mail pills to women are setting up shop right now because the market is wide open and too lucrative for a certain kind of vulture to ignore.
We still have much work to do before abortion becomes a sad footnote to our national story but watching as Roe is consigned to the history books is a good start.
And I truly believe that on the day it happens, my friend Norma McCorvey will finally rest in peace.
