It was the self-help guru Dale Carnegie who once advised, “When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”
That truism comes to mind in a recent New York Times piece by columnist Michelle Goldberg.
Writing in yesterday’s edition, Goldberg pins the blame for Amber Nicole Thurman’s death in August of 2022 on Georgia’s six-week heartbeat bill.
Thurman, 28, was a mother with a six-year-old son when she learned she was pregnant with twins. According to the Times, “she felt she needed an abortion to preserve her newfound stability.” Given that her twin children were older than six weeks, Thurman headed to North Carolina with a friend to obtain for an abortion.
According to the story, Thurman missed her appointment. Instead, the clinic gave her the abortion pill, which she took – but then proceeded to suffer serious effects in the days following.
“Medication abortion is usually safe and effective,” wrote Goldberg, “but in about 3 percent to 5 percent of cases, women end up needing either another dose of misoprostol, one of the two drugs in the regimen, or surgery. That’s what happened to Thurman. Days after taking her second pill, she was in pain and bleeding heavily. The clinic in North Carolina would have offered her free follow-up care, but it was too far away.”
Thurman was eventually hospitalized back in Georgia, diagnosed with sepsis and died following emergency surgery.
The New York Times speculates that Georgia officials may have delayed performing a D&C out of “fear” – but offer no evidence to back up the accusation. Despite claiming otherwise, D&C’s are not illegal in Georgia to save a mother’s life – they’re only illegal if they’re specifically performed in order to kill the preborn baby.
The Times also glosses over the risks of chemical abortion itself – even though the pills have been known to cause serious problems. Goldberg claims that abortion pills are “safer than penicillin or Viagra and significantly less perilous than childbirth.”
Try telling that to the millions of babies killed by the abortion pill – and Thurman.
Consider this warning on the Mifeprex (Mifepristone) box:
Serious and sometimes fatal infections and bleeding occur very rarely following spontaneous, surgical, and medical abortions, including
following Mifeprex use.
Previous studies have found that abortion pills have caused, in addition to death, pulmonary embolisms, deep vein thrombosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, increased infertility, anxiety and depression
What’s especially curious is how a learned writer for The New York Times could conclude that a law designed to protect the two lives Thurman was carrying is somehow responsible for her death – but the abortion pills she was given and ingested bear no responsibility whatsoever?
Isaiah’s warning about calling “evil good, and good evil” and putting “darkness for light, and light for darkness” and “bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20-21) certainly comes to mind.
Let’s be crystal clear: Pro-life laws save lives – thousands of lives. Abortion pills take innocent preborn lives – and put the women who take them at serious risk.
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