Vice President Kamala Harris visited Connecticut on October 5, where she again promoted the idea that Christians can be accepting of a (false) right to abortion in an apparent attempt to convince compassionate Christians to support expansive abortion access following the fall of Roe v. Wade.
“One does not have to abandon their faith or their beliefs to agree that that government should not be making that decision for her,” said Harris during an event at Central Connecticut State University. (emphasis added)
This isn’t Harris’s first attempt to persuade Christian pro-lifers to become pro-abortion, and her repetitious phrasing is a propaganda technique, and an example of the illusory truth effect — the repetition of false information until it becomes perceived as the truth. According to research, “People tend to perceive claims as truer if they have been exposed to them before.” It’s part of what makes propaganda — like that of abortion “rights” — successful.
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In Houston last month at the National Baptist Convention, Harris said, “As extremists work to take away the freedom of women to make decisions about their own bodies, faith leaders are taking a stand, knowing one does not have to abandon their faith or deeply held religious beliefs to agree that a woman should have the ability to make decisions about her own body and not have her government tell her what to do, and she will choose, in consultation with her pastor or her priest, or a doctor and her loved ones, but the government should not be making that decision.” (emphasis added)
False.
Supporting the legal direct legal killing of innocent humans due to their circumstances, development, or size is an affront to any serious religious ethic. https://t.co/Ttpa8znglc— Fr Matthew P. Schneider, LC (@FrMatthewLC) July 19, 2022
In July, she made similar comments at the NAACP National Convention in New Jersey, saying, “It’s important to note that to support a woman’s ability — not her government, but her — to make that decision does not require anyone to abandon their faith or their beliefs.” (emphasis added)
And in June, just before Roe fell, she spoke at Dulles International Airport in Virginia. “For those of us of faith, I think that we agree, many of us, that there’s nothing about this issue that will require anyone to abandon their faith or change their faith,” she said. (emphasis added) That same month she spoke to religious leaders telling them, “To support Roe v. Wade and all it stands for does not mean giving up your beliefs.” (emphasis added)
Harris knows that the more often she says it, the more likely it is that Christians will believe they should support abortion on demand.
In addition, Harris’s remarks are reminiscent of those made by Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, who, in 1939, wrote of her desire to use Black ministers to further her agenda. In a letter to Clarence Gamble, she spoke of her “Negro Project” in which she would use Black ministers to convince their congregations to support her efforts to get Black women on birth control.
She wrote that “while the colored Negroes have great respect for white doctors they can get closer to their own members and more or less lay their cards on the table which means their ignorance, superstitions and doubts. They do not do this with the white people and if we can train the Negro doctor at the Clinic he can go among them with enthusiasm and with knowledge, which, I believe, will have far-reaching results among the colored people.”
She added, “The minister’s work is also important and also he should be trained, perhaps by the [Birth Control] Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”
Harris’ attempts mirror Sanger’s — to get Christian leaders who have influence over their congregations on board with un-Christian plans, and convince them to go against their own consciences and the teachings of the Bible and Jesus Christ.
Harris also claims the government has no right to tell a woman she can’t kill her preborn child — but the government and our system of laws should play a role in protecting human life.
