“You don’t care about babies once they’re born! You’re not pro-life, you’re pro-birth!”
So comes the common refrain from so-called “pro-choice” activists. But their continued screaming at pro-lifers for “not caring about children once they’re outside the womb” (see how they slipped up and admitted to Life in the womb being “children?”) couldn’t be further from the truth, especially when you look at the selfless volunteers and free services and supplies from Pregnancy Care Centers along with state and federal programs.
In his State of the Union address, President Trump offered new support for young families in the form of “tax-free investment accounts for every American child” via the new Trump Savings Accounts
Trump Savings Accounts
Additionally, Trump’s Working Families Tax Credits will increase tax refunds to the tune of $1,000 for families with children, and his work increasing and adjusting child tax credits could mean another $2,200 in the pockets of about 9 in 10 American families.
And it’s not just the Trump Administration looking out for families.
Organizations like Standing With You help connect women with financial assistance for housing, education, childcare, and other expenses. Pregnancy resource centers help women with medical care and provide free diapers for babies. And government programs like SNAP and WIC, which help pay for nutritional food for children and pregnant mothers; LIHEAP and housing assistance, which help pay for housing and home energy costs; and Head Start, which helps with childcare costs, all point to the incredible pro-life infrastructure set up to provide actual support for women and children from conception to natural death.
Meanwhile, “pro-choice” organizations fund only abortions. The Women’s Reproductive Rights Assistance Project (WRRAP), National Abortion Federation (prochoice.org), and National Network of Abortion Funds all offer financial assistance to “alleviate the cost barriers” to get an abortion, but not much else. This tracks with abortion activists’ targeting of low-income women, citing financial need as a major reason to get an abortion.
Instead of providing more support, pro-abortion activists strike down Students for Life Action’s “Pregnant Students’ Rights Act,” a budget-neutral bill simply requiring publicly funded schools to tell pregnant and parenting students about the aid available to them. They complain about Planned Parenthood losing $792 million in taxpayer funding — enough money to cover a year of diapers for 792,000 babies, or a year of childcare for more than 74,400 newborns. It could also purchase diapers for all the preborn babies reported to have been aborted via chemical abortion each year — with more than $100,000 left over — or to completely cover a year of childcare costs for more than 1 in 10 of these preborn babies.
Furthermore, the average cost of an abortion at Planned Parenthood is $580 — enough to pay for more than 6 months of diapers. It can cost as high as $2,000 — enough for a child’s entire diaper supply. But they’ll still tell you they’re trying to help women in difficult situations.
They are lying.
What they’re really doing is financially supporting Big Abortion, which has murdered millions of preborn babies by preying on and inflicting trauma on vulnerable women.
In Democrat super-majority-led Virginia, proposals for new and increased taxes targeting income, local sales, counseling, gym memberships, new cars, highway use, home and vehicle repairs, and more take money away from pregnant and parenting mothers who are already financially struggling.
This is no surprise, given that this same state government has passed and sent to the ballot a constitutional amendment to allow abortion up to birth, up to and including infanticide, as well as proposed legislation to remove minimum sentencing for rape and child pornography possession and distribution.
The reality is that the lack of family-building resources from the “pro-choice” side claiming to support women makes it clear their position isn’t about choice at all.
If abortion vendors and activists truly supported women and their choice, and cared about helping women in financial crisis, they would work to bring real financial assistance to women choosing Life and tell women about the aid available to them — just like Trump is doing.
The message is clear: Pro-abortion activists are anti-woman, preferring to take money out of the pockets of pregnant and parenting mothers in favor of the barbaric financial success of Big Abortion. Pro-life isn’t just anti-abortion; it’s pro-
Kristan Hawkins is president of Students for Life of America and Students for Life Action, with more than 1,600 groups on middle and high school, college and university, medical and law school campuses in all 50 states. Follow her @KristanHawkins or subscribe to her podcast, The Kristan Hawkins Show.
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