The Lazy Slander of Pro-Lifers

Christianity Today has is a great article dispelling the liberal lie that pro-lifers care more for the unborn than for women. Charges that pro-lifers do little to help women after their babies are born are groundless, but the slander is nonetheless repeated in the media and by "pro-choice" opponents.

The author goes on to dismantle the "pro-choice" argument that providing contraception helps reduce abortions, unplanned pregnancies, and STDs. The reality is that they perpetuate the problems they purport to address. It's really a no-brainer: more contraception = more casual sex = more STDs, more unplanned pregnancies, and more abortions.

"... is it any coincidence that Planned Parenthood serves roughly the same percentage of clients for STIs (31%) as it does for contraception (36%)?"

What's worse is that "pro-choice" groups actively oppose and undermine pro-life counseling centers because they cut into Planned Parenthood's business, that business being greater distribution of contraception and abortion services. How is this profiteering in the best interests of women?

"... the charge should be laid to rest once and for all that the pro-life movement is not active on behalf of women, children, and vulnerable persons generally. Those bringing the charge—the same groups that do very little personally to help women and children—should be held to account, both for their lack of real charity and for their refusal to acknowledge that their entire strategy—state supplied birth control and unlimited abortion—has backfired upon the very groups they promised to help."

One reason I know I would make a lousy counselor is that the first question I would want to ask a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy is, "Where is the man who made you pregnant? Why isn't that lecherous coward here with you?" Pregnancy is not merely a women's issue because women don't make themselves pregnant. That men can do this to women and leave them alone to clean up the mess is the cruelest product of the "sexual revolution." Planned Parenthood owes the public a tax rebate for the societal costs it has created. Those costs could be largely alleviated by the quaint but effective practice of monogamous man-woman marriage, which a) prevents questions of paternity, and b) makes men responsible for their treatment of women and the children they produce with them.

What is more compassionate to women and babies? Severing responsibility between "partners," or promoting actual "partnership?" The verdict is in on promiscuity vs. chastity: the former enslaves women and lets men be animals. Chastity is respect - men for women, women for men, respect for human life, and self-respect. Marriage is the vehicle for conveying that respect.

Do I oversimplify? Perhaps, but I do not exaggerate the destruction wrought by the de-coupling of sex from marriage. Proponents of contraception and abortion do not help women lead healthy lives. A truly compassionate approach must steer women and men, however gently, toward a chaste course. I thank God for the efforts of pro-life counselors who take as a sacred charge the task to help preserve and repair lives.