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Abortion is not necessary to save mothers' lives, and no pro-life law would prevent doctors from saving them either.
(LifeSiteNews) – As pro-lifers work to assess the failure of a pro-life ballot initiative in Kansas, one of the factors identified so far is widespread misinformation about pro-life laws forcing mothers to die from pregnancy complications.
The “Value Them Both” Amendment would not have prohibited any abortions, but rather clarified that the Kansas Constitution “does not require government funding of abortion and does not create or secure a right to abortion,” and therefore abortion policy is the purview of “the people, through their elected state representatives and state senators.” It was meant to correct a 2019 ruling by the Kansas Supreme Court, which asserted that the state constitution’s guarantee of “equal and inalienable natural rights” encompasses “a woman’s right to make decisions about her body, including the decision whether to continue her pregnancy.”
On Tuesday, however, 908,745 Kansans turned out to vote on the amendment and rejected it 59% to 41%. Pro-abortion voices quickly declared the outcome a sound rejection of the pro-life cause and an omen of an impending national backlash to the June overturn of Roe v. Wade.
Pro-lifers responded by citing major spending against the amendment, arguing that the wording of the referendum was potentially unclear, and noting that Kansas is not as conservative as sometimes assumed. They also took the results as a reminder of the need to continually evaluate the movement’s strategies and continue working to change hearts and minds, and stressed that abortion being subject to the democratic process is still vastly preferable to the status quo under Roe.
“I think ultimately it came down to chaos, confusion, and lies ruling the day,” Mallory Carroll, vice president of communications for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, told Catholic News Agency Thursday. “The pro-abortion movement was very successful at claiming that this vote was going to be a vote to stop all abortion in Kansas and put women’s lives at risk.”
“A lot of people worked really hard, we contacted a lot of voters, but the message that the pro-abortion movement was pushing, that this was going to lead to women literally dying, was more effective and salient,” she continued. “It really raises the stakes for upcoming elections and underscores how important it is that, both as a pro-life movement and individual pro-life candidates, need to be really clear about what it is that we stand for.”
The specter of women dying in childbirth due to being denied abortions is one of abortion activists’ most potent talking points, despite being both medically and legally inaccurate.
Dr. Anthony Levatino, an OB/GYN who performed more than 1,200 abortions over the course of his 40-year career, but left the industry and converted to the pro-life cause following the death of his daughter, says he “saved hundreds of women from life-threatening pregnancies, and I did that by…ending their pregnancy by delivery, either induction of labor or Caesarean section. You never need late-term abortion to save a woman’s life.”
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Fake news about pro-life laws killing women helped defeat Kansas pro-life amendment - LifeSite
(LifeSiteNews) – As pro-lifers work to assess the failure of a pro-life ballot initiative in Kansas, one of the factors identified so far is widespread misinformation about pro-life laws forcing mothers to die from pregnancy complications.
The “Value Them Both” Amendment would not have prohibited any abortions, but rather clarified that the Kansas Constitution “does not require government funding of abortion and does not create or secure a right to abortion,” and therefore abortion policy is the purview of “the people, through their elected state representatives and state senators.” It was meant to correct a 2019 ruling by the Kansas Supreme Court, which asserted that the state constitution’s guarantee of “equal and inalienable natural rights” encompasses “a woman’s right to make decisions about her body, including the decision whether to continue her pregnancy.”
On Tuesday, however, 908,745 Kansans turned out to vote on the amendment and rejected it 59% to 41%. Pro-abortion voices quickly declared the outcome a sound rejection of the pro-life cause and an omen of an impending national backlash to the June overturn of Roe v. Wade.
Pro-lifers responded by citing major spending against the amendment, arguing that the wording of the referendum was potentially unclear, and noting that Kansas is not as conservative as sometimes assumed. They also took the results as a reminder of the need to continually evaluate the movement’s strategies and continue working to change hearts and minds, and stressed that abortion being subject to the democratic process is still vastly preferable to the status quo under Roe.
“I think ultimately it came down to chaos, confusion, and lies ruling the day,” Mallory Carroll, vice president of communications for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, told Catholic News Agency Thursday. “The pro-abortion movement was very successful at claiming that this vote was going to be a vote to stop all abortion in Kansas and put women’s lives at risk.”
“A lot of people worked really hard, we contacted a lot of voters, but the message that the pro-abortion movement was pushing, that this was going to lead to women literally dying, was more effective and salient,” she continued. “It really raises the stakes for upcoming elections and underscores how important it is that, both as a pro-life movement and individual pro-life candidates, need to be really clear about what it is that we stand for.”
The specter of women dying in childbirth due to being denied abortions is one of abortion activists’ most potent talking points, despite being both medically and legally inaccurate.
Dr. Anthony Levatino, an OB/GYN who performed more than 1,200 abortions over the course of his 40-year career, but left the industry and converted to the pro-life cause following the death of his daughter, says he “saved hundreds of women from life-threatening pregnancies, and I did that by…ending their pregnancy by delivery, either induction of labor or Caesarean section. You never need late-term abortion to save a woman’s life.”
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Fake news about pro-life laws killing women helped defeat Kansas pro-life amendment - LifeSite
