Last week, millions of Americans paid homage to the women who do world’s most important job — raising our nation’s children. It is a life that offers no fanfare, no paycheck, and no benefits, yet mothers put their all into this important, loving vocation.
Also last week, tens of thousands of men, women, and children marched for life in Canada, showing their support for the unborn and their mothers, fathers, doctors, and society at large. Simultaneously, the House of Representatives finally passed a bill that would ban most late-term abortions in America.
In light of these grand celebrations of life — born and unborn — it is the height of irony that Planned Parenthood chose this past Thursday to highlight its radical pro-abortion agenda in Colorado by withdrawing its support of a female state senator who “states she is pro-choice and supports a woman’s right to have a safe and legal abortion and access to contraception, including intrauterine devices, or IUDs.”
However, because Ellen Roberts supported a law that would punish those who attack a pregnant woman and harm her unborn child, Planned Parenthood says she’s just not good enough.
“You cannot support fetal personhood measures and be pro-choice,” said Cathy Alderman, spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains. “Despite what the proponents claimed, when you define ‘person’ prior to birth, you have created fetal personhood. Just saying it’s not personhood doesn’t change that.”
Alderman’s comments come just two months after a pregnant woman was viciously attacked by a woman who literally cut her baby out of her stomach. The mother survived, the baby did not — and the attacker could not be charged with the death of the child. Republicans attempted to fix this gaping hole in the state’s laws, but Democrats stopped them from joining more than three dozen states with similar measures.
This is not the first time Planned Parenthood’s radical agenda has been on display in Colorado, but it provides an opportunity to remind the American people that the nation’s largest killer of children stands not for women, nor for choice, but instead exclusively for its bottom line. And that bottom line relies on the deaths of hundreds of thousands of babies and the disempowerment of women.
More than one million abortions take place each year in America, with more than one-third done in Planned Parenthood’s killing centers. Woman are told that the bearing of new life is a burden to be avoided, despite scientific proof that all abortions end human life.
Rather than empower women to commit to motherhood, which is the most important vocation in the world, Planned Parenthood encourages paying doctors to end human life. What they often decline to tell women, however, are the depression, guilt, physical mutilation, and even death that women experience all too frequently.
Likewise, Planned Parenthood spends tens of millions of taxpayer dollars on birth control, telling women that motherhood and children are inconveniences. Women are taught that fertility is a burden, despite studies showing the harm inherent in ingesting such hormones and chemicals, and using contraceptive devices.
Planned Parenthood also has no problem breaking state laws in order to protect rapists and sex traffickers, at the expense of mothers and their unborn children.
Contrary to many media reports, it is the pro-life movement and the love embodied in a true celebration of Mother’s Day that empowers women to be all that God created them to be. Real empowerment of women puts women on equal footing with men, and encourages both sexes to complementarily work together to propagate the species — not destroy the next generation.
In truth, it is women who use all of God’s gifts — of life, love, children, and work, among others — who truly empower girls and women across America. Planned Parenthood’s radical agenda in Colorado is a reminder that those gifts can’t exist in the literal and figurative vacuum of the abortion industry.
Dustin Siggins serves as public relations officer and DC correspondent for LifeSiteNews, and is the co-author of the forthcoming book, “Bankrupt Legacy: The Future of the Debt-Paying Generation.”