It’s not as though abortion champions on the leftist in are in a frenzied delirium over Donald Trump’s election or anything like that; it’s simply that they think with the advent of Trump women will be forced to abort their babies via the time-honored practice of using coat hangers.
Case in point: New York Magazine, which wept last week that Trump “has since surrounded himself with—and appointed to power — ferocious opponents of both abortion rights and contraceptive access.”
Those opponents included: Mike Pence, who passed some of the nation’s most restrictive abortion laws as governor of Indiana and, in Congress, co-sponsored so-called personhood legislation that defines life as beginning at conception and would thus make several forms of birth control illegal. Tom Price, Trump’s nominee to lead Department of Health and Human Services, who “has supported a nationwide ban on abortion after 20 weeks and is a proponent of so-called conscience clauses that would permit doctors and insurance companies to refuse to provide health-care services they don’t personally believe in.” Jeff Sessions, AG nominee, who “voted to ban Health and Human Services grants to organizations that perform abortions and against a bill to reduce teen pregnancy through sex education and contraceptive access.”
NY Mag pointed out that Trump has suggested that women should be punished for having illegal abortions and stated that some abortion providers “rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby.”
Worse yet, according to the distraught article, Trump himself wrote a letter promising to sign a nationwide ban on abortions after 20 weeks, defund Planned Parenthood, and nominate “pro-life justices” to the Supreme Court.
After a series of anecdotes delineating the abortion procedures of days past and repeated attempts to argue for keeping abortion just the way it is, the article burrows down into abortion hell: women will be prosecuted for taking matters into their own (bloody) hands:
If all other options fail, some women will take matters into their own hands. “I think you’re going to see more DIY abortions,” says Peg Johnston, a manager of an abortion practice in upstate New York. “And whether they’re punished or not is going to be an interesting question.”
The article cites three women who were charged with a crime for aborting their babies; the article is horrified by the fact that in three states “doctors are required to provide a verbal, detailed description of fetal anatomy to women seeking abortion.”
Finally, the author reaches her climax: women will be forced to kill their babies with coat hangers:
The first march I ever attended in Washington was a pro-choice rally in 1989 that drew half a million people. I was 13 years old, and I didn’t understand why the protesters wore pins and carried signs with pictures of coat hangers on them. That’s when I was told, by women for whom illegal abortion was just 16 years in their past, about how women, desperate to end pregnancies in days when it was not legal, untwisted coat hangers, inserted them into their vaginas, into their cervixes, cutting themselves, causing bleeding, infections, and often infertility.
Fifteen years later, at the 2004 March for Women’s Lives, I watched Whoopi Goldberg take the stage, gripping a coat hanger and yelling accusatorily: “You understand me, women under 30? This is what we used!” At the time I thought this was unfair: The whole point was that young women shouldn’t have to know about coat hangers. The not-knowingwas its own victory. But in 2015, Anna Yocca tried to self-abort by using a coat hanger in Tennessee. Our past is reaching into the present.
“Even if people don’t like abortion, they like the things that it brings them.”
Katha Pollitt
Then the author makes inadvertently clear exactly how depraved abortion-rights activists are, quoting Peg Johnston, an abortion-clinic administrator in upstate New York: “Thirty percent of all women are going to have an abortion in their lifetime, most of them already mothers. This is a normal reproductive experience.” Echoing that is Katha Pollitt, the author of 2014’s Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights:
Abortion and birth control are part of the fabric of American life. They’re the reason you can have later marriage, and why women can have a sex life and also go to college and graduate school and have professions; they’re how there can be the small families that most people want and most people can afford. It’s why marriage is better! You don’t have to marry some guy who got you pregnant. That’s all part of a package that people like . . . Even if people don’t like abortion, they like the things that it brings them.
The babies certainly like it a lot.