The 'Pro-Life' movement has lost its conscience

“Love Them Both” is a lie.

It’s official.— The “Pro-life” movement has lost its collective conscience. Not even the deteriorating health of a pretty, white and pregnant, married mother of two small children was enough to penetrate the “Pro-life” movement's impervious ideological fortress. As Kate Cox pleaded for help, the “Pro-life” movement refused to open its gate or render aid. “Love Them Both” is a lie. 

The “Pro-life” movement’s moral iniquity is evident in the words of some of the movement's most vocal leaders and proponents, showcased in their turpitudinous refusal to acknowledge Cox’s deteriorating health. Rather than expressing an apposite level of concern for her physical wellbeing, leaders embarked on a condemnatory crusade to “save” Kate Cox’s baby (who was diagnosed with a genetic anomaly that is nearly always fatal, and a host comorbidities). Though, in reality, their efforts appear to have been designed to fortify the impermeable walls of their severely prohibitive beliefs, as if recognizing the seriousness of Kate Cox’s physical needs would send those walls crumbling down. 

Ignoring her deteriorating health (she's been admitted to the hospital at least 4 times over the last month), some “Pro-Life” leaders wantonly accused Cox of murderous intentions or of discriminating against her “disabled” baby. Some reserved their invidious attacks for Cox’s lawyers and doctors, abjectly insinuating that efforts on Kate Cox’s behalf were driven by nefarious ulterior motives - as if Cox has no personal agency of her own. Others, solely focusing on the baby’s diagnosis, ostensibly displayed sympathy for Kate Cox; but you can't truly sympathize with someone while ignoring their physical state or corporeal experience. 

I am aware of only one anti-abortion group that has offered reasonable and compassionate commentary: Secular Pro-Life (you can watch their video here). The fact that more groups did not do the same is an indictment of the movement and the degenerative direction that it has inarguably taken.

The following sampling of quotations regarding Kate Cox’s situation disclose the hard-hearted, pitiless, and suspicious, emblazoned decadence of a movement which has lost its collective conscience, a movement hellbent on either ignoring or minimizing a pregnant mother’s deteriorating health.

🟩 “[W]e should never use a diagnosis to justify murdering an innocent baby.” - Allie Beth Stuckey, “Relatable” podcast host (source)

🟩 “Cox is willing to risk her health to have a baby, just not a baby with a disability.” - Isabella Childs and Nancy Flanders, NRL News Today (National Right to Life Committee) (source)

🟩 “It’s always a heartbreaking situation to be told your child may not have long to live. Compassion and care should have been given to both Kate Cox and her baby… There are two patients involved, and targeting one of them for brutal abortion will never be the compassionate answer.” - Katie Daniel, state policy director at SBA Pro-Life America (source)

🟩 “Kate Cox is living a nightmare, but the miscarriage of justice is not the Texas law protecting her unborn child. It is the intended killing of her innocent baby girl.” - Mary Szoch, LifeNews (source)

🟩 “Any time a woman has an abortion after finding out her baby has special needs or may need extra help, it is devastating and a tragedy… We shouldn’t get to play God and discard humans that He created.” - Abby Johnson, anti-abortion speaker and subject of the film Unplanned (source)

🟩 “The amount of people rallying behind a wicked and murderous woman so that she can mercilessly end the life of her own child is disgusting.” - Lizzie Marback, former Communications Director at Ohio Right to Life (source)

🟩 “A fatal diagnosis of an unborn child is not a justification for killing them… You show them love and dignity. You give them a funeral. You don’t discard them like medical waste.” - Allie Beth Stuckey, “Relatable” podcast host (source)

🟩 “It must be scary to be a disabled person in the world today given how many people think you should be dead just because of your disability.” - LifeNews (source)

🟩 “Kate does not want to go through labor or c-section for a disabled child.” - Lila Rose, founder of Live Action (source)

🟩 “A diagnosis of trisomy 18 does not justify the intentional murder of a baby.” - William Wolfe, former senior official in the Trump Administration (source)

🟩 “The Center for Reproductive Rights and an abortion-crusading doctor provoked this confrontation, apparently for political purposes… They filed an unnecessary lawsuit and claimed unjustified confusion about what the state law requires in order to create an highly public flashpoint in the conflict over abortion.” - Thomas Jipping, senior legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation (source)

🟩 “While Trisomy 18 is a serious health condition and there are children who will die from the condition at birth, every single child is a gift and their lives should be honored with love rather than being tossed aside as unworthy. Cox claims she is doing what is ‘best’ for her daughter, but dismembering a formerly ‘wanted’ child is never what is ‘best.’” - Isabella Childs and Nancy Flanders, NRL News Today (National Right to Life Committee) (source)

🟩 “[E]ssentially, this case is an issue of not wanting to risk her fertility on a ‘defective’ child, so she can get pregnant again in the future with a ‘normal’ child instead.” - Live Action News (source)

🟩 “Pregnant mothers and their babies deserve compassion and love, not to be used as instruments by pro-abortion groups.” - Texas Right to Life (source)

🟩 “Bottom line: according to her lawsuit, Kate is *planning* to get pregnant again and undergo a c-section for a possible future baby, but she insists on the right to a *late term* abortion because her current baby has disabilities. She doesn’t fear a c-section as much as she fears her daughter surviving. And people are applauding her and saying she is the victim here for not being able to kill her baby, not the baby that’s about to be killed for the crime of being seriously disabled. This is where we are at. Instead of encouraging and helping parents to care for their ill or disabled children, society is cheering on the termination of disabled children and demanding it as a right.” - Lila Rose, founder of Live Action (source)

🟩 “So a hospital in Michigan treats kids with Trisomy 18, which allows them to live longer, happy lives. Huh. Interesting that the Texas woman will travel to another state to abort her baby but not to save her baby.” Allie Beth Stuckey, “Relatable” podcast host (source)

🟩 “Compassion is caring for both mother and child, not killing the baby just because the [baby] is/may be disabled.” - LifeNews (source)

🟩 “I will never believe that the answer to a heartbreaking pregnancy… is to murder the unborn innocent child.” - Abby Johnson, anti-abortion speaker and subject of the film Unplanned (source)

🟩 “It’s not ‘medically necessary’ to kill a disabled unborn baby. It’s a heinous thing to kill a human being because they are sick or disabled, especially a helpless baby - and insist it’s ‘compassion.’” - Lila Rose, founder of Live Action (source)