{"id":1646558,"date":"2022-09-19T07:32:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T11:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1646558"},"modified":"2022-09-19T07:34:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T11:34:09","slug":"chrissy-teigen-misconstruing-sons-death-to-score-pro-abortion-points-reminds-us-shes-the-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chrissy-teigen-misconstruing-sons-death-to-score-pro-abortion-points-reminds-us-shes-the-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"Chrissy Teigen Misconstruing Son\u2019s Death To Score Pro-Abortion Points Reminds Us She\u2019s The Worst"},"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%2Fchrissy-teigen-misconstruing-sons-death-to-score-pro-abortion-points-reminds-us-shes-the-worst%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=1646558&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><\/div>\n<p>Chrissy Teigen is a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/05\/20\/chrissy-teigen-is-a-giant-twitter-bully\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bully<\/a> and almost every headline she scores is for something that makes her less likeable, but two years ago she earned the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/01\/world-sends-chrissy-teigen-and-john-legend-love-and-prayers-at-the-loss-of-their-son\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sympathy<\/a> of even her critics when she announced the tragic loss of her son, Jack, around the 20th week of her pregnancy. Now she\u2019s capitalizing on that loss to make a political jab, rewriting the facts so she can use her tragedy as a weaponized sob story to manipulate public opinion (or at least, the opinions of the 14 people on Earth who still put stock in what she says).<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a summit on Thursday in a talk titled \u201cWe Made That Choice,\u201d Teigen claimed that the Supreme Court\u2019s reversal of its unconstitutional <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> decision sparked a realization for her \u2014 that the miscarriage for which she\u2019d soaked up global sympathy was actually an abortion, like what those evil Republicans want to ban. How convenient!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told the world we had a miscarriage, the world agreed we had a miscarriage, all the headlines said it was a miscarriage. And I became really frustrated that I didn\u2019t, in the first place, say what it was, and I felt silly that it had taken me over a year to actually understand that we had had an abortion,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/general-news\/chrissy-teigen-miscarriage-abortion-john-legend-baby-jack-1235221899\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>, according to The Hollywood Reporter. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt became very clear around halfway through that he would not survive, and that I wouldn\u2019t either without any medical intervention,\u201d Teigen elaborated. \u201cLet\u2019s just call it what it was: It was an abortion. An abortion to save my life for a baby that had absolutely no chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even if Teigen is telling the truth about what happened \u2014 which is of some doubt, since she\u2019s proven she\u2019ll go to great lengths for attention \u2014 she\u2019s manipulating words and definitions to score political points that have nothing to do with her story. <\/p>\n<h2>No One Is Trying to Ban Saving a Mother\u2019s Life<\/h2>\n<p>First of all, the tragic death of a child in utero in order to save his mother\u2019s life is legal in every state. No one is seeking to force mothers to die trying to carry their babies to term, just like no one is seeking to criminalize miscarriage. (A miscarriage, since Teigen claims to have not understood the difference, is understood as the spontaneous and unintentional loss of a child in the womb \u2014 different from an abortion, which is induced with the intent of ending the pregnancy and by extension the baby\u2019s life. Medically clearing a mother\u2019s womb after a baby has spontaneously died in utero is also not abortion.)<\/p>\n<p>So for Teigen to describe a tragic but not legally controversial situation as an \u201cabortion,\u201d something leftists like her want to allow for any reason up to the moment a baby is being born, is playing dirty. Why a grieving mother would deliberately politicize the death of her child, I can\u2019t comprehend. But her motive aside, Teigen\u2019s alleged situation and the abortions that are the subjects of \u201cabortion bans\u201d are not <em>at<\/em> <em>all<\/em> the same thing.<\/p>\n<h2>Is the Goal to Kill the Baby?<\/h2>\n<p>Even if Teigen did submit to a lifesaving procedure knowing her baby wouldn\u2019t survive it (she shared that her baby already had no chance of survival anyway), the intended goal of the procedure matters.<\/p>\n<p>Teigen didn\u2019t share the details of her medical procedure, but in her initial post, she <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/10\/01\/world-sends-chrissy-teigen-and-john-legend-love-and-prayers-at-the-loss-of-their-son\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> to her son, \u201cI\u2019m so sorry that the first few moments of your life were met with so many complications, that we couldn\u2019t give you the home you needed to survive.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions,\u201d Teigen added. Often, doctors will address life-threatening maternal health risks by delivering a baby early, which Teigen\u2019s description suggests likely happened here. That\u2019s hardly the same thing as reaching a vacuum or pincers into a mother\u2019s womb and ripping out her baby limb by limb.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is delivery more humane to the pain-capable baby, it has a different goal. In one instance, the baby\u2019s inability to survive outside the womb after delivery is a tragic casualty of the inducement required to save his mother\u2019s life, but it is not the goal of the procedure. In the other, discarding the baby\u2019s life, body, and existence is precisely the goal. Pro-life advocates make this distinction all the time, and it\u2019s cruelly dishonest of Teigen to ignore it (though in her defense, it\u2019s possible she\u2019s just that ignorant).<\/p>\n<h2>Once Again, Teigen Is Making Everything About Her<\/h2>\n<p>Teigen\u2019s ploy for abortion-lovers\u2019 accolades is also cruel to mothers who have survived miscarriages, or who have been through life-saving procedures that cost the lives of their babies. For Teigen to paint their tragedies as \u201cabortions\u201d is to cast unfair and unnecessary guilt on them for circumstances completely unlike those of a woman going to her local Planned Parenthood to get rid of a baby she doesn\u2019t want. (Roughly 3 in 4 women who get abortions do so simply <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/journals\/psrh\/2005\/reasons-us-women-have-abortions-quantitative-and-qualitative-perspectives\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">because<\/a> they think \u201chaving a baby would dramatically change my life.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>For a husband and wife to go through the decision-making process that leads to delivering a baby early to save the mother\u2019s life must surely be excruciating, and my heart goes out to Teigen and her husband John Legend for ever being in such a position. But if Teigen is going to deceptively misconstrue the death of her son and then capitalize on it to score political points with the pro-abortion crowd, that\u2019s where my sympathy stops.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Elle Purnell is an assistant editor at The Federalist, and received her B.A. in government from Patrick Henry College with a minor in journalism. Follow her work on Twitter @_etreynolds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrissy Teigen is a bully and almost every headline she scores is for something that makes her less likeable, but two years ago she earned the sympathy of even her<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1353,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646558","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\/1646558","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\/1353"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646558\/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=1646558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}