California Congresswoman Katie Porter is facing backlash following her post-election appearance on “The Issue Is” podcast, during which she revealed that her 12-year-old daughter was crying over Donald Trump’s win because she is afraid she won’t be able to have an abortion if she is raped.
But Porter and her daughter are not the only females reacting so strongly to the election results, which is a sign of how so many American women have come to believe that their safety and equality are tied up in the ability to kill their children. It’s also a sign that as a society, Americans have come to believe that killing is a valid ‘solution’ to certain societal problems.
In fact, there’s a small movement of women who say they will no longer have sex with men because, as 21-year-old Michaele Thomas put it, “Young men expect sex, but they also want us to not be able to have access to abortion. They can’t have both. Young women don’t want to be intimate with men who don’t fight for women’s rights; it’s showing they don’t respect us.”
No, Michaele, having sex with you and then expecting you to abort your baby is a sign that men don’t respect you. The majority of abortions in the United States — about 87% — are obtained by unmarried women. And let’s think critically for a moment: is it realistic to believe that young men who are just using women for sex actually want them to give birth to the babies that are conceived, when those men will be obligated to pay child support — which is an average of nearly $9k annually per child? (No, it’s not realistic.) In fact, it is a sad fact that homicide is one of the leading causes of death for pregnant and postpartum women — frequently committed by an intimate partner (the baby’s father). Men have, for decades, used abortion as their way out of fatherhood and commitment.
Frankly, the pervasiveness of the idea that a woman needs abortion access if she is sexually active is proof of at least one of these things: 1) that the much-touted cure-all of contraception can fail, and 2) that women have been been using abortion as birth control on more than rare occasions.
Using abortion as birth control
“So, on election night, I went to pick up my daughter from water polo practice, and she’s 12, and she sat in the car, and she was crying,” Porter explained.
Her daughter told her, “Mom, Trump won… Trump’s gonna win, and what if I get raped and I need to have an abortion?”
NEW: CA Rep. Katie Porter says her 12 year old daughter came home crying after Trump won, said she was afraid of not being able to get an abortion if she got r*ped.
Porter is an awful mother assuming this is true.
“I went to pick up my daughter from water polo practice and… pic.twitter.com/5qxGvSayI7
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) November 10, 2024
Porter continued, “This is from a 12-year-old, my 12-year-old daughter. And so, it was really a reminder of how scary this time is for people. And how important it is for Democrats to have strategies, both at the state level and the federal level, to make sure that we can continue to protect people’s rights.”
Porter received backlash from Elon Musk and Riley Gaines as well as X users, one of whom commented, “When I was 12 years old I just wanted to know if I could go roller skating at the roller rink. Stop brainwashing children.”
But the panic over the potential (and currently highly unlikely) loss of legal abortion has a lot of women scrambling. One shared a video offering advice on how to induce an abortion using potentially toxic levels of vitamin C.
New trend on tiktok is to subtly provide ways to help cause a miscarriage. pic.twitter.com/NYhUkewi9I
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 11, 2024
Another woman claimed that she would not be seeing any family members over the holidays. “I’m gonna be here with my dogs and my daughter who is of childbearing age and now has to get an IUD at 17 years old, and I’m gonna be here with my son [daughter who claims she’s a boy] who is a political target,” she said. “And that should really tell you all you need to know about why I’m not going to be hanging out with y’all for the holidays. So f*** off. Choke on your turkey.”
IUDs have been legal and available for quite some time. So what was her plan before now? To take her minor child for an abortion every time she became pregnant?
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Clearly, abortion was seen by many Americans as birth control — and now that they are worried that they may no longer be allowed to intentionally kill preborn children, they feel ‘forced’ to start using birth control. Or, in the case of some, stockpiling it, along with abortion drugs.
Stockpiling abortion pills
Abortion businesses had already been selling the abortion pill through the internet since the Biden-Harris administration stripped away regulations on abortion drugs and Roe v. Wade fell in June 2022. Now, the false rhetoric that women must have access to abortion — not just to have equality, but to survive — has reached a new high.
Rebecca Gomperts, the founder of the abortion pill dispensary Aid Access, allegedly “huddled” in a Paris apartment the day after the election with her team so that they could be ready to ship out abortion drugs to women across America. Aid Access is said to ship out about 9,000 boxes of the abortion pill each month — but after news of Trump’s victory spread, the abortion pill business allegedly received more than 5,000 requests for the drugs in less than 12 hours. It was reportedly a “surge even larger than the day after Roe v. Wade fell,” said The Guardian. It also noted (emphasis added):
The scenario repeated itself across the country as news of Trump’s victory broke, with women’s and trans health providers getting inundated with requests for services that their patients feared might be banned in a Trump administration. The telehealth service Wisp saw a 300% increase in requests for emergency contraception; the abortion pill finder site Plan C saw a 625% increase in traffic.
Trump has repeatedly said he will not push for a national law protecting preborn children from abortion, that he supports the use of the abortion pill, and that he appointed Supreme Court Justices who overturned Roe v Wade and sent the decision on abortion laws back to the states where ‘everyone wanted it.’
Still, Elisa Wells, co-founder of Plan C, claimed, “Clearly, people are trying to plan for the reproductive apocalypse that we anticipate will be happening under a Trump presidency.”
“Reproductive apocalypse“? The fear-mongering surrounding Trump’s second go at the presidency has also apparently led to an increase in requests for birth control, which have doubled at the site Hey Jane. And Winx Health said it has sold six times as many doses of Plan B, an emergency contraception, as it had in the previous seven days combined.
“Women are smart,” Winx co-founder Cynthia Plotch said. “We see what is coming, and we are protecting ourselves.”
But the increase in requests for birth control and abortion pills isn’t a sign of ‘what’s coming,’ but rather of what has already been happening.
This level of reaction from women exposes that for years now, sexually active women may not have been using birth control and instead were using abortion as a form of contraception.
Abortion does not offer equality
Abortion was legal in every state for 49 years and abortion advocates spent that time teaching women and young girls that abortion was their “right” and that without that “right” they were incapable of achieving any success in education or their careers, and that they were not equal to men.
During her Supreme Court confirmation hearing in 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg told the Senate Judiciary Committee, “If you impose restraints that impede her choice, you are disadvantaging her because of her sex.” This is telling; Ginsburg simply accepted the “default setting” of a ‘wombless’ society — the idea that if you’re not a man, and you might actually give birth to the next generation of humans, you will be “left out” of society. But instead of fighting for actual societal change that respects women and their unique, incredible, indispensable ability to give birth, Ginsburg fought for women to simply accept the idea that they will always be “disadvantaged” in a ‘man’s world’ — and the solution was simply to kill weaker humans to “free” themselves from the “oppression” of having a womb.
The pro-abortion mentality is extremely anti-feminist and anti-woman. The earlier feminists knew this; even Betty Friedan had to be coaxed into the idea by — surprise! — pro-abortion men.
But motherhood and success are not mutually exclusive. Just like fathers, mothers are not weak or incapable and should be able to freely embrace and celebrate their fertility and the strength involved in carrying and birthing a child. With support, their chances for success would only grow.
Scholar Erika Bachiochi explained it perfectly:
Sexual equality via abortion looks to cure biological asymmetry — the fact that women get pregnant and men don’t — by promoting the rejection of women’s bodies.
Authentic equality and reproductive justice would demand something far more revolutionary: that men and society at large respect and support women in their myriad capacities and talents which include, for most women at some time in their lives, childbearing.
Killing is not a solution
The reign of Roe v. Wade also affected the willingness of Americans to love and care for each other despite their differences or challenges. It caused them to believe that killing is a valid and justifiable solution to a host of concerning situations.
A pregnant woman is facing financial hardship? Kill her baby.
A pregnant woman is being abused by her partner? Kill her baby.
A pregnant woman is addicted to drugs and is homeless? Kill her baby.
A woman is pregnant from rape? Kill her baby.
A woman faces a medical complication during pregnancy? Kill her baby.
A preborn baby is diagnosed with a disability or health concern? Kill him.
The solution to financial hardship is to offer educational, housing, and career opportunities, not to kill a baby. The solution to abuse is to remove the abused from the abuser, not to kill another potential victim. The solution to drug addiction and homelessness is recovery and housing solutions, not killing an innocent person.
The solutions to rape are resources for healing and longer prison sentences for the assailant, not to kill an innocent person and turn the rape survivor into a perpetrator of violence. The solution to medical emergencies during pregnancy is not to kill the baby but to treat both mother and child.
And the solution to a fetal diagnosis is not to kill the patient, but to locate the best expert care available to her.
“My name is Tiffany,” one woman wrote on Facebook this week. “I was conceived through r@pe. I honestly don’t talk about it much as I am still processing and healing from the revelation of it just a few years ago. I’m not writing this to have some political debate so please don’t use the comments to argue your views, that’s not what this is about. Today I feel compelled to tell this part of my testimony. I know that there is a girl reading this who is in the valley of decision, you find yourself in a situation you don’t feel ready for. I want to put a face to what some people say is a justifiable exception and I want you to know I’m more than that. My life mattered then and it matters now. It hasn’t always been easy but my life has purpose. So does your baby’s; give them the chance to fulfill their God given destiny.”
Women have been taught that casual sex is normal, that pregnancy is a disease, that their children are parasitic obstacles that stand in the way of dreams, and that having a child after surviving rape is worse than the rape itself. These are all lies.
But while most Americans value life, children, and family, most also now believe that at some point during pregnancy, killing is acceptable. A 2023 Gallup poll found that about two-thirds of Americans think abortion should be legal in the first trimester, and about 22% think it should remain legal until the third trimester. That means pro-abortion false rhetoric and years of misinformation on life in the womb have caused more than 60% of Americans to believe that there is some point at which it is morally acceptable to actively kill innocent human beings because they have been deemed inconvenient by their mother.
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