Three myths you should not imagine about Dobbs overturning Roe

June 24, 2022, will go down in historical past as a monumental victory for our constitutional proper to life by delivering some of the consequential rulings within the historical past of the Supreme Courtroom of america. I rejoice the overturning of Roe v. Wade alongside the remainder of the pro-life motion and look ahead to persevering with to battle for all times on the state stage.

Final month, we witnessed a preview of the intensely divided response to this resolution after the draft opinion was leaked, however the public response to the official opinion from each side has been unsurprisingly extra fervent. And we’re about to see even larger hysteria ramp us as abortion rights activists flip their efforts towards pressuring particular person states to cross radical pro-abortion laws.

So earlier than the hysteria reaches most depth, it’s crucial that we set some information straight and debunk the alarming falsehoods that liberals are perpetuating about what overturning Roe means. There are just a few prevalent myths I’d like to handle particularly:

Fantasy 1: Professional-lifers wish to make girls criminally liable for his or her miscarriages after Roe 

The professional-life motion has been combating towards the demise of the harmless unborn for 50 years now. Criminalizing miscarriage shouldn't be a part of their agenda. Stopping the intentional termination of harmless life is.

Professional-life motion management even pushed again towards the criminalization of abortion itself, responding partly to Louisiana’s anti-abortion invoice. Lawmakers ultimately withdrew from classifying abortion as “murder,” however the dispute was vitally necessary as we discern a attainable post-Roe authorized panorama.

The issue with abortion, in any case, isn’t simply that the child doesn’t make it to time period. The issue with abortion is that it deliberately ends an harmless life. A miscarriage carries no such intent. It isn't, and by no means has been, the goal of pro-life advocacy.

Fantasy 2: Abortion is ‘healthcare’

This delusion is especially distinguished — and pernicious. In all places we flip, a pro-abortion rights activist is able to argue that entry to abortion is a necessary and constitutionally protected element of girls’s “healthcare.”

It isn’t healthcare; it’s the intentional killing of an unborn little one. The wordplay and euphemisms essential to defend abortion betray the truth that abortion is, in truth, indefensible on its face. If pro-abortion folks might be sincere and direct about what it's they need, they might be.

However they will’t — so we get speaking factors like this one.

Fantasy 3: Abortion is the one satisfactory response to weak girls dealing with sudden pregnancies 

This final delusion is without doubt one of the most necessary ones. You see it many times in pro-abortion propaganda aimed toward home and worldwide audiences alike.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has personally furthered such a story, arguing that abortion restrictions would adversely have an effect on girls’s participation within the workforce. Others argue that proscribing abortion would hurt girls within the navy and, by extension, hurt our navy normally.

This reasoning is repeated endlessly, however it's mainly the identical wherever it seems. It insists that killing a weak lady’s unborn little one is the one means we could adequately help her. It insists, blindly, that the demise of the child is the one method to repair her issues.

What about providing her assets and help? What about guiding her via the method of carrying her little one to time period and placing it up for adoption, ought to she so select?

The hardships these girls face will be alleviated by different means than killing the unborn, and it's a grave injustice to fake in any other case.

In fact, these aren’t the one lies that abortion advocates will generate and unfold within the wake of Roe being overturned. However these are just a few of a very powerful ones. It’s crucial that everybody combating for the unborn’s proper to life speaks out sanely, charitably, and persistently on behalf of the reality.

That’s been true for the previous 50 years of the pro-life motion, however it's very true now. So, please, sustain the nice battle. Maintain combating for fact. Maintain combating for all times.

Timothy Head is the manager director of the Religion & Freedom Coalition.