The Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities wrote in 2023:
In recent years pro-abortion groups have radically altered their messaging strategy, abandoning the slogan of “choice” to claim instead that abortion is simply essential health care for women. References to abortion or abortion “services” have been replaced in pro-abortion literature by the euphemism “abortion care.” By claiming an objective basis in medicine, abortion supporters seek to marginalize health care providers and others who disagree with them, dismissing these Americans as not living up to “the standard of care.”
That leads me to a tweet by the immediate past president of the American Medical Association (AMA) and dermatologist (responding to an article about abortion and medical residents):
Thank you, and , for this story, for interviewing me, and for drawing attention to this predictable downstream consequence of reckless government interference in healthcare, including abortions.
As noted in the first paragraph, pro-abortion advocates, like leftist advocates of all types, have done this incredible job at redefining terms.
So what are the reasons women choose abortion?
The most recent available data is from eight states that collect and report women’s reasons for choosing abortion, which accounts for approximately 122,000 abortions each year, 13% of the U.S. total shows the following:
- Rape and incest: 0.3%
- Risk to the woman’s life or a major bodily function: 0.2%
- Other physical health concerns: 2.5%
- Abnormality in the unborn baby: 1.3%
- Elective and unspecified reasons: 95.7%
So we see that less than 5% are actually due health reasons. The remaining 96% is essentially birth control.
I don't know why reporters don't ask the pro-abortion politicians and advocates, who use risk to the woman's life as the crux of their arguments, about the 96% of elective abortions performed annually.Abortion is not health care. Abortion is an act of violence against someone who could be a physician’s patient.
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