Unlike miscarriage, abortion directly and intentionally kills an innocent child who is living, growing, and developing.
This past summer, I walked through one of the most difficult tragedies in my life: miscarrying my precious fourth child. When I started experiencing symptoms, I immediately got in touch with my doctor, and she confirmed my worst fear through an ultrasound and blood test: I lost my baby, which happened to be the same day as my father-in-law’s funeral.
Many women share the overwhelming and devastating experience of miscarrying; about 1 in 4 pregnancies ends in the miscarriage of the child. Healing isn’t quick or easy, emotionally or physically. It can take days, sometimes even weeks, of physical pain, bleeding, and eventually miscarrying. After that, more tears, numbness, hormonal changes, sleepless nights, and bodily aches fill the months ahead, all a constant reminder that you lost the child you wanted and loved so much. Having to carry on with life and tell people you’re no longer pregnant, especially your children, is the cherry on top of a crappy cake.
But now the abortion industry has decided to add yet another layer of grief for women: using personal miscarriage tragedies, like mine, to fearmonger and deceive women into supporting pro-abortion laws, lest they die in the streets from not receiving miscarriage treatment. My blood boils listening to the abortion pundits’ malicious and blatant deception.
While abortion is also a tragedy, it differs from miscarriage in one key area: intention.
Abortion directly and intentionally kills an innocent child who is living, growing, and developing. It grotesquely starves, suctions, dismembers, or poisons that precious life. Sometimes, women receive miscarriage treatment to prevent them from suffering any further complications, such as infection, after their children have already passed. Unfortunately, women don’t always miscarry naturally and may require medical intervention, whether through a drug called misoprostol or a dilation and curettage (D&C) procedure.
