{"id":1476348,"date":"2022-05-16T08:01:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T12:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1476348"},"modified":"2022-05-16T08:01:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T12:01:22","slug":"5-lies-abortion-supporters-spread-about-overturning-roe-and-how-to-counter-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-lies-abortion-supporters-spread-about-overturning-roe-and-how-to-counter-them\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Lies Abortion Supporters Spread About Overturning Roe And How To Counter Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F5-lies-abortion-supporters-spread-about-overturning-roe-and-how-to-counter-them%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1476348&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/piqsels.com-id-jrbij-scaled-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The pro-abortion machine has been working overtime to churn out lies about preborn babies and laws designed to protect them. Just Wednesday, after a bipartisan majority in the U.S. Senate defeated the legislature\u2019s most radical abortion bill in history, pro-aborts on Capitol Hill and in the corporate media were <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/11\/bipartisan-majority-rejects-radical-abortion-bill-pushed-by-senate-democrats\/\">declaring<\/a> that \u201cRepublicans\u201d (in fact a bipartisan majority that included Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin) had used the \u201cfilibuster\u201d (rather than a simple 51-49 vote) to defeat the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The lying started more than 50 years ago with Norma McCorvey of the 1973 <em>Roe v. Wade <\/em>decision. McCorvey later admitted \u201cshe had fabricated her account of being raped by three men and a woman in 1969 because she had hoped to circumvent a 100-year-old Texas law that banned abortions except when the woman\u2019s life was in danger,\u201d as The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1987\/09\/09\/us\/key-abortion-plaintiff-now-denies-she-was-raped.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are five of many more <em>Roe <\/em>lies to be aware of, along with ways to counter them.<\/p>\n<h2>1. Reversing <em>Roe <\/em>Will Put Women in Jail for Abortions<\/h2>\n<p>Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/democrat-senator-chris-murphy-abortion-polls-voter-turnout-midterm-election\">Sen. Chris Murphy<\/a> of Connecticut claimed last Sunday that the leaked Supreme Court decision means \u201cwomen and doctors are going to be sent to jail immediately when this opinion becomes a reality.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Murphy, an attorney, failed to explain that prior to <em>Roe<\/em>, when abortion was illegal in nearly every state, women weren\u2019t being rounded up in jails for having abortions.\u00a0Who would even lobby for such laws? Abortionists might get jail time, as \u201clegal\u201d abortionist Kermit Gosnell did in Pennsylvania, but women were not prosecuted or sent to jail even for self-abortion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As Villanova University law professor Joseph Dellapenna <a href=\"https:\/\/humanlifereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-spring-.pdf\">noted<\/a>, in the 19th and 20th centuries, \u201cCourts rationalized their view of women as victims of abortion \u2026 by declaring that a woman \u2018was not deemed able to assent to an unlawful act against herself.\u2019 This attitude was reinforced by the reality that generally no conviction of the abortionist could be obtained without the testimony of the woman who underwent the abortion.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dellapenna also pointed out that states like New York \u201cenacted immunity statutes \u2026 to protect women from prosecution if they would testify against their abortionists.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>2. Women Will be Prosecuted for Self-Abortion if <em>Roe <\/em>Is Reversed<\/h2>\n<p>Attorney Paul Linton performed exhaustive case review background work on the actual practice of prosecuting abortionists in the United States. He could not <a href=\"https:\/\/deliverypdf.ssrn.com\/delivery.php?ID=195074122123117100127068076005001025053087027082034055099021085106113066068102094110053035120006007034111119084008098025008001126082004073093121023126106016000001065025005028065065127001072024027083122085109071002010081125095122068086066106119104094084&#038;EXT=pdf&#038;INDEX=TRUE\">find<\/a> even \u201cone reported case from <em>any <\/em>State, prior to <em>Roe<\/em>, in which a woman was prosecuted, convicted and sentenced for inducing her own abortion, or for consenting to an abortion performed upon her by a third party.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>There were only two reported abortion cases, he found, \u201cin which a woman was even charged for having had an abortion.\u201d In Pennsylvania, a woman took a drug to produce abortion, but the trial judge refused to enter the jury\u2019s guilty finding because \u201cthe statute was not intended to apply to the woman.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The order was affirmed on appeal. A Texas case from 1922 notes that a woman was indicted, but there was no record that the woman was ever tried or convicted and sentenced.<\/p>\n<h2>3. Women Will be Prosecuted for Miscarriage\u00a0\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2022\/05\/roe-abortion-miscarriage-crime-murder-prosecution\/\">Abortion advocates also claim<\/a> that women who miscarry could be criminally prosecuted. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/pregnancy-loss-miscarriage\/symptoms-causes\/syc-20354298\">Pregnancy loss<\/a> before 20 weeks gestation can result from non-controlled diabetes, infections, hormone conditions, uterine or cervix problems, or thyroid disease.\u00a0These have nothing to do with intentional, induced abortion.\u00a0Miscarriage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK532992\/\">occurs<\/a> in 26 percent of all pregnancies \u201cand up to 10% of clinically recognized pregnancies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paul Wohlers noted in The Washington Post in 1981 that the term \u201cmiscarriage\u201d in some older state statutes referred to induced abortion.\u00a0But after a thorough search of state abortion prosecutions from the mid-1800s, he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndlegis.gov\/files\/resource\/58-2003\/library\/hb1242.pdf\">concluded<\/a> that \u201cIn no case was a spontaneous miscarriage made the object of criminal investigation or prosecution.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Further, a prosecutor would have great difficulty convincing a judge or jury that a particular early miscarriage (before 20 weeks) resulted from an intentional action of the woman.\u00a0It would be nearly impossible for a criminal prosecutor to procure the body (corpus delicti) of a miscarried child to initiate a criminal trial, to prove a defendant intentionally caused a miscarriage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One pro-abortion group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2022\/05\/roe-abortion-miscarriage-crime-murder-prosecution\/\">claimed<\/a> \u201cThere\u2019s no medical way to tell the difference between a miscarriage and a medication abortion,\u201d in an attempt to argue that victims of miscarriage could be prosecuted. But that very fact means no prosecutor could thus prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the child\u2019s death was due to abortion.<\/p>\n<h2>4. Reversing <em>Roe <\/em>Will Criminalize Pill and IUD Use<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alisondurkee\/2022\/05\/09\/heres-how-roe-v-wade-being-overturned-could-threaten-birth-control-access\/?sh=1ad0ab929002\">Forbes Magazine<\/a>\u00a0last week suggested that reversing <em>Roe<\/em> will lead to birth control pills being outlawed because \u201cdefining the life of an \u2018unborn child\u2019 as starting at fertilization or conception \u2026 would affect common birth control methods.\u201d But users of IUDs or the Pill were never prosecuted under the criminal abortion laws that were in place prior to <em>Roe<\/em>, so why would they be prosecuted if <em>Roe <\/em>is reversed? Most of the abortion laws prior to<em> Roe<\/em> defined the unborn child\u2019s life as beginning at fertilization or conception.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Harriet Pilpel, Planned Parenthood\u2019s lawyer, filed an amicus brief in 1971 noting that state criminal abortion laws had <a href=\"https:\/\/humanlifereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021-spring-.pdf\">not<\/a> \u201cmade any effort to outlaw the use of the intrauterine device which may in fact function to prevent implantation after fertilization has occurred.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pilpel\u2019s testimony before Congress in 1976 explained one practical reason why women had not been prosecuted for using drugs or devices that prevented pregnancy after fertilization: \u201cSince it is not possible scientifically \u2026 to determine either when fertilization or implantation occurs \u2026 it would be impossible in cases of early pregnancies to know when and whether it was being violated.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Further, as eminently principled pro-life advocate and late Notre Dame law professor Charles Rice wrote, \u201cEarly abortifacients are beyond the effective reach of the law.\u00a0It will usually be impossible to prove that life was terminated in an early abortion; prosecution for abortion therefore would be practically impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince \u2018contraceptive\u2019 drugs are licensed for legitimate uses, it is practically impossible to prevent their use for abortion,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe legal obliteration of the distinction between contraception and abortion has put chemical abortion beyond the practical reach of the law.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>5. \u2018The Unborn Have Never Been Recognized in the Law as Persons\u2019\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>This lie comes from Justice Henry Blackmun in the <em>Roe <\/em>decision itself. But in footnote 34 of\u00a0<em>Roe<\/em>,\u00a0Justice Harry Blackmun <a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/410\/113\/#F34\">cited<\/a> Eugene Quay\u2019s article, \u201cJustifiable Abortion \u2014 Medical and Legal Foundations,\u201d which <a href=\"https:\/\/lozierinstitute.org\/three-fabrications-of-roe\/\">excerpted<\/a> laws from 19 states and Washington, D.C., all of which classified abortion as manslaughter or second-degree murder, or had similar penalties for such.\u00a0Quay also included excerpts from 24 state laws prohibiting abortion, all of which used the words \u201cchild\u201d or \u201cchildren,\u201d which can only mean a living human being, a person.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Justice Alito <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/21835435-scotus-initial-draft\">cited<\/a> Eugene Quay\u2019s same article on page 23 of his working brief.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the time <em>Roe<\/em> was decided in 1973, all states had either restricted or prohibited abortion. Forty-three states and the District of Columbia banned abortion because the child was fully human. Even radically pro-abortion President Joe Biden couldn\u2019t help <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/news\/administration\/3477663-bidens-discomfort-with-abortion-comes-under-scrutiny\/\">admitting<\/a> that the subject of an abortion is indeed a \u201cchild.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/abortions-since-roe-v-wade\">63 million children<\/a> have had their lives legally taken by abortion since 1973 under <em>Roe<\/em>. Isn\u2019t it past time that the Supreme Court, which has reversed itself at least 232 times since 1808, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/resources\/decisions-overruled\/\">Library of Congress<\/a>, at least let citizens have a say in whether this dreadful practice deserves to stand?<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Robert Marshall was a member of the Virginia General Assembly from 1992 to 2018, and is the author of\u00a0\u201cReclaiming the Republic: How Christians and other Conservatives Can Win Back America.&#8221; Email him at\u00a0robertgbobmarshall@gmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pro-abortion machine has been working overtime to churn out lies about preborn babies and laws designed to protect them. Just Wednesday, after a bipartisan majority in the U.S. Senate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":789,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1476348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/789"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1476348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1476348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1476348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}