{"id":1586486,"date":"2022-08-03T08:06:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T12:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1586486"},"modified":"2022-08-03T08:06:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T12:06:16","slug":"no-nyt-the-difference-between-abortion-and-a-miscarriage-is-not-the-mothers-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-nyt-the-difference-between-abortion-and-a-miscarriage-is-not-the-mothers-feelings\/","title":{"rendered":"No, NYT, The Difference Between Abortion And A Miscarriage Is Not The Mother\u2019s Feelings"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fno-nyt-the-difference-between-abortion-and-a-miscarriage-is-not-the-mothers-feelings%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=1586486&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--><p>There\u2019s been an awful lot of talk about miscarriage in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that had nothing to do with it.<\/p>\n<p>As the pro-abortion left clings to its movement in a post-<em>Roe<\/em> world, two law professors have taken to the New York Times opinion section to <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/xYWB4#selection-319.0-319.59\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ask<\/a>, \u201cWhy Do We Talk About Miscarriage Differently From Abortion?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an absurd question on its face, with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1554467327290261505?s=20&#038;t=yjp0deBH7c7rRVvIjFb4eg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">obvious rejoinder<\/a> being that we talk differently about miscarriage and abortion for the same reason we talk differently about aneurysms and first-degree murder, consensual sex and rape, or salaried employment and slavery. <\/p>\n<p>But false equivalencies aside, the writers\u2019 answer to the question is worth exploring because it illuminates how abortion proponents think about women, the tragedy of miscarriage, the realities of abortion, and the value \u2014 or not \u2014 of human life.<\/p>\n<h2>No Blurry Lines Here<\/h2>\n<p>They begin with a false premise, which they never support except with <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/07\/the-viral-halsey-story-is-a-typical-pro-abortion-lie-to-scare-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tired and debunked<\/a> talking points about mifepristone, that abortion and miscarriage are commensurate. \u201cThe line between abortion and pregnancy loss has always been blurry,\u201d write Greer Donley and Jill Wieber Lens, later adding: \u201cPregnancy loss and abortion have more in common than many people realize. The physical experiences are often virtually identical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to these writers, the pro-life movement is to blame for our culture perceiving miscarriage and abortion so differently by drawing \u201ca cultural bright line\u201d between the two terms and pushing \u201cdueling narratives of \u2018bad\u2019 mothers who voluntarily cause fetal death versus \u2018good\u2019 mothers who grieve unpreventable pregnancy loss.\u201d The right learned to \u201cweaponize\u201d the grief of miscarriage, Donley and Wieber Lens claim, painting unborn children as people, portraying abortion as heartless, and leading people to draw a distinction between it and miscarriage. <\/p>\n<p>They lament, however, that the pro-abortion crowd has only broadened this chasm between miscarriage and abortion by dehumanizing children in utero, which they frame as \u201cminimizing focus on the fetus.\u201d The pro-abortion crowd was afraid of \u201ca slippery slope that would undermine abortion rights,\u201d Donley and Wieber Lens say, adding that \u201cthis same fear led the movement to avoid the topic of pregnancy loss or to refer to a fetus or embryo as \u2018a clump of cells.\u2019 Any concession of fetal value could be used to chip away at abortion rights, the thinking went.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis minimization [of the fetus] can be jarring to women who believe they lost their child in utero,\u201d the law professors warn \u2014 a massive understatement for mothers who have miscarried. An expectant mom learning that the child once seen sucking her thumb on a sonogram is now lifeless while hearing the left refer to the unborn at the same gestational age as a \u201cclump of cells\u201d is more than \u201cjarring,\u201d it\u2019s cruel and heartwrenching.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Attached\u2019 to a Lie<\/h2>\n<p>But Donley and Wieber Lens are here to make things right. After all, there are alliances to be forged. If the pro-abortion left is to succeed in convincing Americans that post-<em>Roe<\/em> abortion bans are a threat to women who miscarry, they must \u2014 with the help of the media \u2014 persuade those Americans that <em>intentionally taking<\/em> the life of a child and <em>tragically losing<\/em> the life of a child are one and the same. <\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s here that they get to their main argument, and their operative word is \u201cattachment.\u201d By the logic of these two law professors, the left can acknowledge \u201cthe\u00a0<em>loss<\/em>\u00a0in pregnancy loss\u201d (emphasis theirs) without loosening their grip on their abortion obsession. It\u2019s OK to concede that some mothers get \u201cattached to their children in utero and that attachment has value,\u201d they say, and it\u2019s important to validate this attachment because challenging it makes abortion apologists appear heartless.<\/p>\n<p>Ignore for a moment the authors\u2019 Freudian slip of calling wanted human lives in utero \u201cchildren\u201d  \u2014 and their very wrong assumption that their perceived heartlessness is a result of their ignoring miscarrying mothers\u2019 fetal attachment rather than their support for dismembering innocent life in the womb \u2014 because it\u2019s here that they get to the punchline:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cBut attachment is entirely subjective \u2014 it develops for different people at different rates, depending on their circumstances. And crucially, it may never develop. \u2026 <strong>If we ground fetal value in the pregnant woman\u2019s attachment, and commit to defending her\u00a0conception of the pregnancy, we can recognize loss without threatening abortion rights<\/strong>.\u201d (emphasis added)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, a woman\u2019s attachment to the separate human life inside her is what confers value upon that second life. Unborn babies have no value of their own accord. Their worth is entirely determined by whether anyone is attached to them. <\/p>\n<h2>The Obvious Answer<\/h2>\n<p>There are a few huge problems with this. First and most obviously, this does nothing to actually solve the pro-abortion left\u2019s optics problem. Communicating to women that their babies are worthless \u2014 unless a mother feels otherwise \u2014 does little to assuage perceptions of heartlessness.<\/p>\n<p>Second, \u201cattachment\u201d isn\u2019t how we assign value to any other human life. Most U.S. citizens probably aren\u2019t particularly attached to aspiring migrants south of our border, or to the suffering civilians of Ukraine, or to a drug-addicted homeless person they\u2019ve never met. We care about their fate not because of some attachment to them \u2014 either our own or someone else\u2019s \u2014 but because they\u2019re human beings, and vulnerable ones at that, much like the unborn.<\/p>\n<p>Which leads to the third and most important condemnation of the authors\u2019 phony attachment conception: All human beings \u2014 of every age, demographic, and location \u2014 possess inherent value. I believe, as Scripture teaches, that each person is made <em>imago Dei<\/em>, or in the \u201cimage of God.\u201d That\u2019s one of the reasons for the intrinsic heaviness of death; as image-bearers, we were created as eternal beings, with death being a bitter result of our sin-stained world. But even if you aren\u2019t a person of faith, the innate value of human beings is obvious in natural law, including both nature and reason. It\u2019s evident in even flawed concepts of justice, in our propensity to celebrate birthdays or existence and to honor the dead, in our desire to see wrongdoers punished for hurting even people we\u2019ve never met, and in our efforts to find cures for cancer, among untold other proofs.<\/p>\n<p>Abortion\u2019s fiercest advocates are grasping at straws \u2014 and unrelated tragedies such as miscarriage \u2014 to cling to a barbaric practice. It shouldn\u2019t need to be said, but the reason \u201cwe talk about miscarriage differently from abortion\u201d has nothing to do with \u201cattachment.\u201d It\u2019s because it\u2019s perfectly normal to talk about things that are completely different completely differently.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Kylee Griswold is an assistant editor at The Federalist. She previously worked as the copy editor for the Washington Examiner magazine and as an editor and producer at National Geographic. She holds a B.S. in Communication Arts\/Speech and an A.S. in Criminal Justice and writes on topics including feminism and gender issues, religion, and the media. 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