Oscar-winning pro-abortion actress Jennifer Lawrence recently spoke with People Magazine about a documentary she has produced with Hillary and Chelsea Clinton — and for whom she is (unsurprisingly) voting. Laced into the interview were lies about abortion.
“I’m voting for Kamala Harris because I think she can protect reproductive rights,” said Lawrence. She added that “the most important thing” about this election is to “not let somebody into the White House who is going to ban abortion.”
Lawrence, who has been outspoken about her pro-abortion stance for years, produced the documentary “Zurawski v Texas” with the Clintons. The film focuses on the widespread propaganda that Texas’ pro-life law prohibits women from receiving health care for pregnancy complications. And Lawrence helped to further spread those lies in her interview with People Magazine.
“Women are dying,” she claimed, adding that the film will “enlighten people’s idea of what abortion is and why certain people need abortions — and why it’s so important to keep lawmakers out of families and out of people’s doctors’ offices… These laws are made by random white men and they’re not made by healthcare providers.”
But is any of this true? In short… no. Also, here’s a video to truly “enlighten people’s idea of what abortion is”:
False claim #1: “Women are dying”
First, women are not dying from pro-life laws because the only act that pro-life laws prohibit is induced abortion — the act of directly and intentionally killing a preborn child. Induced abortion is not medically necessary, not even in an emergency… because it’s not necessary to intentionally and directly kill the human being in the womb in order to treat his or her mother.
Preterm delivery or an emergency C-section during a medical emergency are acts that 1) end a pregnancy, 2) are not induced abortions, and 3) are not prohibited by law if no one is attempting to ensure the death of the child.
Even if the baby in such situations is born too young to survive, this is not an induced abortion because the intent of the procedure was not to intentionally or directly cause the baby’s death.
Additionally, women weren’t dying left and right from abortions even prior to Roe v. Wade — abortion advocates fabricated statistics about abortion deaths; the same propaganda is being pushed today following the reversal of Roe.
False claim #2: “Certain people need abortions”
Because it’s not necessary to kill a preborn baby to save the mother’s life, it’s untrue that “certain people need abortions” as Lawrence claims. While she may believe abortion is necessary for “certain people,” what women who face challenges during pregnancy need is more concrete support — not the trauma of abortion.
False claim #3: Pro-life “laws are made by random white men”
The false notion that pro-life laws are all “made by random white men” is a pro-abortion marketing tactic to make pro-life Americans (and those on the fence about abortion) feel that they are in the minority.
Just analyzing the pro-life leaders of the United States makes it obvious that Lawrence’s claim is false. In fact, most pro-life organizations in the nation are run by women — many of them young women. From Live Action founder and president Lila Rose to the founder of Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, Terrisa Bukovinac, women are leading the fight to end abortion. Students for Life of America is headed by Kristan Hawkins, and National Right to Life is led by Carol Tobias.
There are also pro-life women in legislatures at both the federal and state levels, and many pro-life, female leaders are also women of color, including Cherilyn Holloway, founder of the organization Pro-Black Pro-Life, Toni McFadden, and Dr. Alveda King, Director of Civil Rights for the Unborn for Priests for Life.
Laws should equally protect members of the human family, regardless of what any “healthcare provider” has to say — especially if that so-called “healthcare provider” is killing defenseless human beings for a living. Killing isn’t health care.
False claim #4: Someone in the White House will “ban abortion”
Essentially, this claim is referring to Donald Trump, and matches the constant drumbeat by one political party that refers to every pro-life state law as a “Trump abortion ban.” In addition, the Harris-Walz campaign and the Democratic National Committee have claimed that if Trump is elected, he will institute some sort of national “abortion ban.”
However, Trump has repeatedly stated that he believes the Supreme Court did the right thing in returning the ability to decide abortion law to the states (a position with which many pro-life advocates disagree), and that he believes the most progress on abortion is being made in leaving the states to decide.
