“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart, who has returned to the show to cover the Republican National Convention and Democratic National Convention, joked this week that the RNC looked like it was turning into the DNC. The example he gave was what he called “the weirdest moment” at the RNC this week — when Amber Rose, “founder of the LA slut walk and a sex-positive, pro-choice internet celebrity,” spoke.
During her speech, Rose said, “Donald Trump and his supporters don’t care if you’re Black, white, gay, or straight. It’s all love.”
Steward quipped, “It’s all love! It’s love! You just better hope all that love doesn’t lead to an ectopic pregnancy!”
The comment is meant to be a jab at pro-life laws, which the media and pro-abortion advocates claim put pregnant women’s lives at risk in situations such as ectopic pregnancy. But this is a complete fabrication. Insinuating that pro-life laws prohibit treatment for ectopic pregnancy is a lie meant to promote abortion. Plain and simple.
The truth is that no current pro-life law prevents treatment for ectopic pregnancy because induced abortion is not a treatment for ectopic pregnancy.
Induced abortion is the direct and intentional killing of the preborn child, which means the goal is to produce a dead embryo or fetus. The goal of ectopic pregnancy treatment, however, is to save the mother’s life — not kill her child. Because the child is too young still to live outside the womb, he or she will not survive that treatment. This death is a tragic effect of treatment, but not the intention of the treatment, which means it’s not an induced abortion and is not illegal.
For example, Florida’s HB 7, or the Heartbeat Protection Act, which protects children from abortion once a heartbeat is detectable, states that treatment for life-threatening conditions such as ectopic pregnancy is not classified as abortion, though physicians would have to document their course of treatment. The same is true of pro-life laws in other states, including Texas, where the law states, “Medical treatment provided to the pregnant female by a licensed physician that results in the accidental or unintentional injury or death of the unborn child does not constitute a violation of this section.”
The pro-abortion media is attempting to garner support for legalized abortion by conflating it with things like miscarriage treatment and ectopic pregnancy treatment, and by publishing stories of women who couldn’t get legitimate health care in dire situations, allegedly because of laws preventing induced abortions. But they are deliberately deceiving the public to dishonestly promote an agenda of electively killing preborn babies for any reason — not merely in dire health emergencies.
If any woman in any state is denied treatment for an ectopic pregnancy (which is a life-threatening situation and not at all humorous), it is not because of any pro-life law. This treatment is legal in every state, despite what Jon Stewart implied.
