{"id":2650456,"date":"2026-08-27T11:06:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignthe-lindsay-clancy-case-exposes-big-pro-lifes-woke-second-victim-lie\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:12:40","slug":"utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignthe-lindsay-clancy-case-exposes-big-pro-lifes-woke-second-victim-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/utm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignthe-lindsay-clancy-case-exposes-big-pro-lifes-woke-second-victim-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lindsay Clancy Case Exposes Pro-Lifers\u2019 \u2018Second Victim\u2019 Lie"},"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\">18<\/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%2Futm_sourcerssutm_mediumrssutm_campaignthe-lindsay-clancy-case-exposes-big-pro-lifes-woke-second-victim-lie%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=2650456&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>The article critically examines the cultural and ideological forces shaping the debate over abortion and justice. It highlights how the &#8220;second-victim&#8221; narrative, promoted by pro-life advocates, centers the mother\u2019s suffering over the murdered children, often framing maternal culpability as secondary or nonexistent. This perspective is rooted in a secular feminist anthropology that diminishes the moral agency of women, contrasting with biblical teachings that distinguish moral duty for both mothers and children. The piece discusses how this narrative has influenced legal and societal approaches, leading to protections for women who perform abortions, even when they intentionally kill their unborn children, while neglecting accountability for the act itself.It explores how the abortion industry adapts through methods like mail-order pills and telehealth, circumventing restrictions and perpetuating the injustice. The author advocates for a justice-based approach that applies equal standards to all responsible parties, recognizing the full humanity and moral agency of both children and mothers. He argues that pro-life efforts must confront their secular feminist underpinnings and align with biblical justice, emphasizing that true justice requires impartiality and accountability, regardless of gender or method of abortion. The article concludes by warning that the current partiality undermines moral order and demands a decisive shift toward biblical standards of justice.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Three children are dead at Lindsay Clancy\u2019s hand, yet a rotten culture has rallied to make her the central victim. That reflex exposes a deep connection between Big Pro-Life, feminism, and wokeness. We cannot establish justice until we confront it.<\/p>\n<p>Big Pro-Life insists that a mother who intentionally kills her preborn child is abortion\u2019s \u201csecond victim,\u201d not a morally responsible agent. The response to Lindsay Clancy carries that same presumption outside the womb: The mother is centered as victim, and accountability is recast as cruelty.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of women have rallied in pink to support her. More than 31,000 donors have given more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-for-lindsay-clancys-parents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$1 million<\/a> to offset her parents\u2019 costs of standing beside her. Three children are dead at their mother\u2019s hand, yet she has become the central object of public sympathy, solidarity, and financial support.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Clancy lacked criminal responsibility because of genuine mental incapacity must be judged according to evidence and due process. The scandal is that the culture answered that question in her favor before the jury could, directing its emotional energy toward her rather than her three dead children.<\/p>\n<p>Big Pro-Life cannot wash its hands of this spectacle. For decades, it has preached the same moral grammar now displayed outside that courtroom: When a mother murders her child, center her suffering, relocate agency onto doctors, drugs, systems, or circumstances, and treat accountability as another act of cruelty against her.<\/p>\n<p>The Clancy response is not an aberration from the second-victim doctrine, but that doctrine logically extended from preborn children to born children.<\/p>\n<p>The essentially woke character of the second-victim argument is now evident. It imports the hierarchy of intersectionality into the abortion debate: The more firmly someone is placed within a preferred victim class, the less moral agency and culpability she is permitted to possess. Her commission of the act becomes the very basis for treating her as a higher-order victim.<\/p>\n<h2>The Feminism at the Heart of Big Pro-Life<\/h2>\n<p>This is not an abolitionist caricature. <a href=\"https:\/\/nrlc.org\/nrlnewstoday\/2023\/06\/post-dobbs-messaging-on-abortion-for-elected-officials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Right to Life<\/a> declares that \u201cthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/march-for-life-announces-theme-for-first-march-since-pandemic\/\" title=\"March For Life Announces Theme For First March Since Pandemic\">pro-life movement recognizes<\/a> the mother as a second victim in every abortion\u201d and expressly grounds its opposition to punishment or prosecution in that doctrine.<\/p>\n<p>The problem runs deeper than political strategy. Big Pro-Life\u2019s governing commitments are fundamentally secular and feminist, not biblical or according to nature.<\/p>\n<p>Scripture and nature present women as image-bearers endowed with moral agency, mothers bound to protect their children, and persons answerable under the same law as men. Big Pro-Life instead begins with feminist anthropology: The woman is the presumptive victim, guilt is translated into trauma, sin into circumstance, repentance into healing, and accountability into oppression.<\/p>\n<p>It borrows the Christian language of compassion while abandoning the biblical categories that give compassion moral order: sin, guilt, repentance, mercy, justice, punishment, and impartial judgment.<\/p>\n<h2>The Abortionist at the Mailbox<\/h2>\n<p>Nowhere is the contradiction more apparent than with abortion pills and self-managed abortion.<\/p>\n<p>In a clinic abortion, Big Pro-Life can rhetorically displace the mother\u2019s culpability onto the doctor, clinic, or procedure. But when a woman knowingly procures the drugs, possesses them, and administers them for the purpose of murdering her child, there is no external abortionist onto whom Big Pro-Life can transfer her guilt.<\/p>\n<p>She is literally the abortionist. The victim, intent, and result have not changed.<\/p>\n<p>This is why much of the pro-life establishment organizes its efforts around means, methods, and instruments. It targets manufacturers, distributors, websites, doctors, clinics, shipping channels, gestational limits, pills, and procedures.<\/p>\n<p>But the pill is a method, not the offense. The pill is no more the perpetrator than the gun. The website is a means of procurement, not the injustice. The offense is the intentional murder of an innocent human being, namely prenatal homicide.<\/p>\n<p>By treating abortion as a product to regulate rather than a homicide to judge, Big Pro-Life is condemned to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-vows-to-destroy-critical-race-theory-in-florida-schools-offensive-to-the-taxpayer\/\" title=\"DeSantis Vows To Destroy Critical Race Theory In Florida Schools: \u2018Offensive To The Taxpayer\u2019\">play whack-a-mole<\/a> with methods. Close the abortion mills and abortion moves to mailboxes. Restrict one drug and another method takes its place. The instruments change because the underlying injustice remains unjudged and the murderer remains protected.<\/p>\n<p>That failure is measurable. Nationally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/monthly-abortion-provision-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Guttmacher reports<\/a> 1,129,650 clinician-provided abortions in 2025 \u2014 the highest total since 2009, 21 percent above 2020, and more than 23 percent above 2019.<\/p>\n<p>According to a forthcoming report from the Foundation to Abolish Abortion (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/@AbolitionistFAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@AbolitionistFAA<\/a>), where I serve as a member of the advisory board, even in the 16 states with general provider bans or six-week provider bans, known abortions involving residents rose from 234,774 in 2019 to 292,533 in 2025, a 25 percent increase. In-state clinic abortions fell from 207,084 to 69,135, but abortions obtained through out-of-state travel rose from 27,690 to 94,390, while telehealth added another 129,008.<\/p>\n<p>More than three-quarters of the known abortions involving residents of these \u201cban\u201d states now occur through travel or telehealth, and that total excludes an unknown number of self-managed abortions. Big Pro-Life closed clinics, but the abortion industry simply changed its means of delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma is an even clearer indictment. Abortions involving Oklahoma residents rose from 4,574 in 2019 to at least 7,017 in 2025, a 53 percent increase. By 2025, Oklahoma had no abortion clinics, yet roughly 3,250 residents traveled out of state and another 3,766 obtained abortions through telehealth. The abortion mill was miniaturized and mailed and the abortionist ingested it slaughtering her precious preborn child.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DustyDeevers\/article\/2092355993611231651\/media\/2092345633860460546\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That migration is legally enabled. Pro-life law is reactionary to abortion innovation. It follows providers, pills, and packages while granting categorical immunity to the abortive mother (even when she performs the abortion itself) before her conduct, intent, or lawful defenses are examined.<\/p>\n<p>Even <a href=\"https:\/\/aul.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Testimony-Opposing-S323-Protecting-Women-and-Upholding-Life-in-South-Carolina.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Americans United for Life<\/a> acknowledges that \u201cnearly every state explicitly exempts women from the penalties and punishments associated with violating an abortion law.\u201d There is not a single state in America that treats abortion as prenatal homicide. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wyoming-abortion-ban-that-went-into-effect-over-weekend-temporarily-blocked-by-judge\/\" title=\"Wyoming ... ban that went into effect over weekend temporarily blocked by ...\">pro-life legal framework<\/a> has thereby created a protected class of perpetrators: mothers who intentionally abort their children.<\/p>\n<h2>Managing Murder versus Demanding Justice<\/h2>\n<p>Abolitionists begin somewhere entirely different: justice.<\/p>\n<p>Who is the victim? What conduct caused the child\u2019s death? Who knowingly participated? With what intent? Was there a lawful defense?<\/p>\n<p>Justice does not change with the method. It begins with the victim and the conduct, not an identity-based immunity established before the facts are considered. It applies the same law, due process, lawful defenses, and standards of culpability to every responsible party: mother, father, doctor, supplier, or accomplice alike.<\/p>\n<p>Maternal immunity does precisely what Scripture forbids: shows partiality to the wicked, employs unequal standards, and turns the weak aside from justice (Psalm 82:2-4; Isaiah 10:1-2; Leviticus 19:35-36; Proverbs 17:15; 18:5; 20:10; Galatians 2:6; James 2:9).<\/p>\n<p>Nor can the scale of abortion be ignored. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/news-release\/2024\/one-four-us-women-expected-have-abortion-their-lifetime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Guttmacher estimates<\/a>, based on 2020 abortion rates, that nearly one in four American women will have an abortion by age 45. In a culture where abortion reaches that deeply, the second-victim narrative has a vast constituency personally invested in its promise of absolution. It would be willful blindness to deny that some of the empathy surrounding maternal child-murder is projected and self-protective.<\/p>\n<p>The second-victim narrative offers absolution without confession, forgiveness without repentance, and empathy without judgment. To judge maternal child-murder impartially would threaten the narrative through which millions of women have been taught to interpret their own abortions.<\/p>\n<p>But bloodguilt cannot be cleansed by projected empathy. David did not seek therapeutic affirmation after shedding innocent blood; he cried, \u201cDeliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God\u201d (Psalm 51:14).<\/p>\n<p>The guilty conscience is cleansed only by the blood of Christ, received through faith; a faith that confesses sin, grieves and hates it, turns from it, and endeavors after new obedience (Proverbs 28:13; Hebrews 9:14; 1 John 1:7-9; 2 Corinthians 7:10-11).<\/p>\n<p>Empathy severed from truth and justice is not compassion, but toxic partiality. It centers the perpetrator, obscures the murdered child, and recasts accountability as an additional injury against the woman. Once empathy decides who may be guilty, the courtroom becomes a theater and justice a prop.<\/p>\n<p>This is feminism\u2019s poisonous contribution to our moral order. Feminism teaches that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >female suffering cancels female agency<\/a>, that womanhood confers presumptive victimhood, and that equal accountability is oppression.<\/p>\n<p>Feminism is a toxic blight upon justice and social stability. No society can long endure when sympathy is assigned according to sex, culpability according to intersected rank, and the murdered child disappears behind the anguish of the mother who murdered him.<\/p>\n<h2>Big Pro-Life Must Choose: Feminist Partiality or Biblical Justice <\/h2>\n<p>Big Pro-Life must confront its fatal flaw. It claims to affirm the full humanity of the child while denying the full moral agency of the mother. It claims to care for the victim while preserving unequal accountability for the perpetrator.<\/p>\n<p>Until it repudiates its secular feminist anthropology and renounces the second-victim doctrine, Big Pro-Life will continue asking which abortion instrument must be prohibited next. Abolitionists demand equal protection and justice for the preborn child, regardless of the instrument.<\/p>\n<p>Yet in every state capitol, permission to murder babies has been written into law.<\/p>\n<p>God condemns rulers who write \u201ciniquitous decrees\u201d that \u201cturn aside the needy from justice\u201d (Isaiah 10:1-2). He commands them to \u201crescue those being taken away to death\u201d (Proverbs 24:11), appoints them to carry out His wrath against the evildoer (Romans 13:4), and calls unequal standards an abomination (Leviticus 19:35-36; Proverbs 20:10).<\/p>\n<p>Justice \u2014 equal weights and equal measures, showing no partiality \u2014 is what God demands. We must follow wherever justice leads, regardless of the method employed or the identity of the person who murders the child.<\/p>\n<p>Big Pro-Life must choose between feminist partiality and biblical justice. It cannot have both.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article was originally<\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DustyDeevers\/status\/2092355993611231651\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a> by the author on X.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Dusty Deevers is a pastor at Grace Reformed Baptist Church of Elgin in Elgin, Oklahoma. He is also the state senator for Oklahoma Senate District 32 and a small business owner. 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