From your blog posts, it’s clear that you have an intense and disturbing hatred for those who don’t live the exact same lifestyle as you. Do you only pretend to care about life when it involves controlling women, but when those children grow up and fall into a category that you don’t like (transgender, gay, a refugee), it’s perfectly fine to write sneering, degrading, and very un-Christ-like blog posts about them on a weekly basis? You support laws that have drastically increased maternal mortality rates and have caused multiple women to die because doctors now refuse to provide life-saving care when they have a miscarriage or birth complications. What about the woman from Georgia who was arrested for having a miscarriage last week? Are you glad that innocent women are now dying trying to give birth because of what you wanted? What if you have daughters or granddaughters and the laws you’re so excited to enact endanger their lives? Will you be laughing and jeering at them as they die giving birth because of what you wanted? If one of them has a miscarriage, will you be giddy to pick up the phone and dial 911 to have them arrested and locked in jail for 10+ years, over something they couldn’t control? The “pro-life” movement has nothing to do with supporting life. It’s only pro-birth. You attempt to use euphemisms and flowerly language to cover up what this is actually about, which is control. I, personally, now refuse to have children or give birth in the US because it is effectively a death sentence. Many other women agree.
By the way, by so emphatically supporting someone like Trump, who has repeatedly made incredibly predatory and dehumanizing remarks about women, has been convicted of sexual abuse, attempted to appoint an Attorney General who had sex with and sex trafficked a child, and nominated men with credible rape allegations against them to the Supreme Court and as Defense Secretary, you’re directly contributing to rape culture despite, again, claiming to care about life. This never has and never will be about actually caring for life and human beings.
Here are some credible medical studies and sources to back up my points:
Thank you for engaging so passionately. I sense a lot of pain and righteous anger in your words, and I want to honor that by not reacting in kind, but by responding with care and clarity.
Let me start here: If you knew my heart—not through the lens of assumption or caricature—you’d see that I genuinely seek to love every human being, particularly those who feel unseen, unheard, or unwanted. That includes women facing crisis pregnancies, the unborn, those who identify as LGBTQ+, immigrants, refugees, and yes, even political leaders many find offensive. I don’t always get it right, but my aim is to love as Christ loves: not selectively, but sacrificially. That includes being willing to speak hard truths when silence would be more comfortable or culturally accepted.
I grieve any instance where a woman has died due to medical confusion or fear surrounding state laws. That should never happen. If there are laws being misinterpreted or misapplied, we must clarify and correct them. Medical professionals must not be afraid to save a woman’s life. But let's not conflate the moral evil of abortion—the intentional destruction of innocent life—with genuine, tragic miscarriages or life-saving medical interventions. Conflation leads to chaos, not clarity. If the woman from Georgia was truly arrested for a miscarriage (and not something more), that should be vocally opposed. But if we’re going to have this conversation seriously, we need to distinguish fact from narrative, principle from propaganda.
As for Trump, I’ve said before—and will say again—I don’t defend any immoral behavior, past or present. But I also won’t reduce the entirety of a person—or their policies—to the worst stories told about them, particularly when some of those stories are more ideologically charged than evidentially clear. In a fallen world of imperfect choices, I’ve sought to support leaders whose policies most consistently uphold the dignity of human life—from the womb to the tomb. That includes fighting sex trafficking, protecting religious freedom, defending the unborn, supporting parental rights, and promoting peace through strength.
The “pro-life” position, when rightly understood and lived, is not about control. It’s about compassion rooted in truth. It’s about the conviction that every life matters, not just the convenient or culturally celebrated ones. It’s about embracing both the mother and the child, not pitting them against each other. It’s about creating a culture where no woman feels like abortion is her only option—and no child is treated as a burden or a mistake.
I know you disagree. I respect your passion. But I ask: can we disagree without dehumanizing? Can we move beyond sneers and soundbites toward something more honest, more courageous, more truly life-giving?
If you’re open, I’d love to continue this conversation. Not to win an argument—but to pursue truth together.
On the topic of the woman in Georgia who was arrested: officials essentially charged her because she had a miscarriage and disposed of the miscarried fetus in a trash bin. However, are you aware that this is how hospitals also would have disposed of these fetal remains (albeit, just in a more sanitary trash can)? Actually, majority of early- and mid-term miscarriages are flushed down a toilet, which is how doctors tell their patients to dispose of the fetal tissue. Should these women be arrested too? Should every woman in the process of miscarrying have a police officer meticulously watch her as it happens? These inhumane scenarios are the slippery slope of the world you’re advocating for. The woman in Georgia was probably scared to call 911 after the miscarriage because she didn’t want to be accused of causing her own miscarriage. If you were a woman who just miscarried, would you appreciate it if, after all of that pain and trauma, you were interrogated as if you were a criminal for something you couldn’t control, with possible charges if the police just didn’t believe you?
I am glad you agree that women shouldn’t die because of abortion laws. However, impact is more important than intent. From a plethora of credible, peer-reviewed, evidence-based, academic studies, we can see that this is not what is happening in reality. Women ARE dying from these laws. When you police women’s bodies and medical procedures, and put laws on something that is, at times, necessary to save a woman’s life, it is extremely easy to go back and scrutinize decisions that doctors only have a few miliseconds to make in the moment after it has happened. This is why so many doctors are now delaying life-saving care for women in labor, causing their deaths.
I also find it to be very disingenuous when people claim to be pro-life, but overwhelmingly advocate and vote to take away measures that would actually support the woman and child after it is born. For example, Trump’s budget plan includes significant cuts to Food Stamps, as well as funding measures that have a high possibility of the inclusion of funding cuts for Medicare. The Trump Administration has also proposed cuts to programs that serve and provide meals for low-income children, such as Head Start, in addition to measures that will reduce access to free school lunch for low-income children. These proposals are overwhelmingly supported by politicians who claim to be pro-life. If one of the main reasons that women get abortions in the US is their fear of not having enough money to support the child, wouldn’t attempting to pass legislation that improves the lives of low-income mothers and women naturally decrease the abortion rate? By voting for legislation that makes it exponentially more difficult for low-income mothers to have and raise children (in addition to laws that significantly increase maternal mortality rates), women and mothers feel scared, unprotected, and desperate. Enacting extremely strict abortion bans that subject women to inhumane conditions while simultaneously making the lives of women who do give birth to children more financially unstable is the equivalent of putting a piece of tape over a cracked pipe instead of actually fixing it.
As for Trump, I do believe that people deserve second chances and that people can be forgiven if they admit to their wrongdoings, sincerely apologize, and show through their actions that they will not repeat the same behaviors again. However, Trump has done none of this. Instead of admitting to his predatory and abusive behavior and apologizing to the victims, he blames, lies about, and further victimizes the women he has abused, despite the evidence that found him liable of sexual abuse in court. Instead of changing his behaviors, he continues to make predatory and degrading remarks about women publicly. There’s a line between forgiving behavior and simply excusing and normalizing behavior. Just as it would be extremely ill-advised and dangerous to tell a battered wife to “just forgive” her abusive husband the day after he beat her and go back to living with him the day after it happened, or to allow a newly-convicted child predator to be a preschool teacher. Actions have consequences, and until Trump admits his wrong doing and changes, it is dangerous and unethical to put someone like him in charge of the health, safety, rights, and well-being of women and girls, in addition to several of his cabinet members who have also committed similar human rights violations with no apologies or changes in behavior. Trump only pretends to care about women on minute issues that align with his specific culture war policies, such rejoining the Geneva Consensus Declaration, of which the signatories are only authoritarian and autocratic countries, mainly in the Middle East and Africa, that have committed and continue to commit egregious human rights violations against women and girls. For the reasons stated above, this document willingly endangers the health and safety of American women without touching or even addressing societal issues that lead to women seeking abortions, all under the guise of “protecting women”. Ironically, predatory and abusive men such as Trump are the reason women need real protections in the first place, and it is a slap in the face to listen to such a man (who, mind you, made sexually charged comments at his own daughter, starting from when she was a toddler) pretending to care about women when he is the abuser.
It is also deeply disturbing to see how Trump’s misogyny plays out in his policies — from removing International Women’s Day from all calendars dispute the struggles women still face and have overcome in our society (especially in relation to overcoming rape, sexual abuse, human trafficking, exploitation, etc. — all of which disproportionately affect women), to censoring and covering up plaques honoring women in the NSA’s National Cryptologic Museum, to the passing of the SAVE Act, which has a high likelihood of preventing married women from voting (especially mothers and working mothers who may not have access to their documents or the time needed to hunt down every piece of paperwork they need), to banning the word “woman” from being used in scientific research from the NIH and the CDC (even through women’s health issues are significantly understudied, which, again, contributes to maternal mortality rates). Maybe you don’t notice these issues because they don’t personally impact you. However, they do personally impact me and half of the population in this country. I morally and ethically cannot and will not ever use my vote or my voice to support someone like this.
From your blog posts, it’s clear that you have an intense and disturbing hatred for those who don’t live the exact same lifestyle as you. Do you only pretend to care about life when it involves controlling women, but when those children grow up and fall into a category that you don’t like (transgender, gay, a refugee), it’s perfectly fine to write sneering, degrading, and very un-Christ-like blog posts about them on a weekly basis? You support laws that have drastically increased maternal mortality rates and have caused multiple women to die because doctors now refuse to provide life-saving care when they have a miscarriage or birth complications. What about the woman from Georgia who was arrested for having a miscarriage last week? Are you glad that innocent women are now dying trying to give birth because of what you wanted? What if you have daughters or granddaughters and the laws you’re so excited to enact endanger their lives? Will you be laughing and jeering at them as they die giving birth because of what you wanted? If one of them has a miscarriage, will you be giddy to pick up the phone and dial 911 to have them arrested and locked in jail for 10+ years, over something they couldn’t control? The “pro-life” movement has nothing to do with supporting life. It’s only pro-birth. You attempt to use euphemisms and flowerly language to cover up what this is actually about, which is control. I, personally, now refuse to have children or give birth in the US because it is effectively a death sentence. Many other women agree.
By the way, by so emphatically supporting someone like Trump, who has repeatedly made incredibly predatory and dehumanizing remarks about women, has been convicted of sexual abuse, attempted to appoint an Attorney General who had sex with and sex trafficked a child, and nominated men with credible rape allegations against them to the Supreme Court and as Defense Secretary, you’re directly contributing to rape culture despite, again, claiming to care about life. This never has and never will be about actually caring for life and human beings.
Here are some credible medical studies and sources to back up my points:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10728320/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2709326/
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-unequal-impacts-of-abortion-bans
https://www.ajmc.com/view/new-report-shows-worsening-health-outcomes-for-women-in-states-with-abortion-bans
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2022/06/30/abortion-bans-increase-maternal-mortality-even-more-study-shows
Thank you for engaging so passionately. I sense a lot of pain and righteous anger in your words, and I want to honor that by not reacting in kind, but by responding with care and clarity.
Let me start here: If you knew my heart—not through the lens of assumption or caricature—you’d see that I genuinely seek to love every human being, particularly those who feel unseen, unheard, or unwanted. That includes women facing crisis pregnancies, the unborn, those who identify as LGBTQ+, immigrants, refugees, and yes, even political leaders many find offensive. I don’t always get it right, but my aim is to love as Christ loves: not selectively, but sacrificially. That includes being willing to speak hard truths when silence would be more comfortable or culturally accepted.
I grieve any instance where a woman has died due to medical confusion or fear surrounding state laws. That should never happen. If there are laws being misinterpreted or misapplied, we must clarify and correct them. Medical professionals must not be afraid to save a woman’s life. But let's not conflate the moral evil of abortion—the intentional destruction of innocent life—with genuine, tragic miscarriages or life-saving medical interventions. Conflation leads to chaos, not clarity. If the woman from Georgia was truly arrested for a miscarriage (and not something more), that should be vocally opposed. But if we’re going to have this conversation seriously, we need to distinguish fact from narrative, principle from propaganda.
As for Trump, I’ve said before—and will say again—I don’t defend any immoral behavior, past or present. But I also won’t reduce the entirety of a person—or their policies—to the worst stories told about them, particularly when some of those stories are more ideologically charged than evidentially clear. In a fallen world of imperfect choices, I’ve sought to support leaders whose policies most consistently uphold the dignity of human life—from the womb to the tomb. That includes fighting sex trafficking, protecting religious freedom, defending the unborn, supporting parental rights, and promoting peace through strength.
The “pro-life” position, when rightly understood and lived, is not about control. It’s about compassion rooted in truth. It’s about the conviction that every life matters, not just the convenient or culturally celebrated ones. It’s about embracing both the mother and the child, not pitting them against each other. It’s about creating a culture where no woman feels like abortion is her only option—and no child is treated as a burden or a mistake.
I know you disagree. I respect your passion. But I ask: can we disagree without dehumanizing? Can we move beyond sneers and soundbites toward something more honest, more courageous, more truly life-giving?
If you’re open, I’d love to continue this conversation. Not to win an argument—but to pursue truth together.
On the topic of the woman in Georgia who was arrested: officials essentially charged her because she had a miscarriage and disposed of the miscarried fetus in a trash bin. However, are you aware that this is how hospitals also would have disposed of these fetal remains (albeit, just in a more sanitary trash can)? Actually, majority of early- and mid-term miscarriages are flushed down a toilet, which is how doctors tell their patients to dispose of the fetal tissue. Should these women be arrested too? Should every woman in the process of miscarrying have a police officer meticulously watch her as it happens? These inhumane scenarios are the slippery slope of the world you’re advocating for. The woman in Georgia was probably scared to call 911 after the miscarriage because she didn’t want to be accused of causing her own miscarriage. If you were a woman who just miscarried, would you appreciate it if, after all of that pain and trauma, you were interrogated as if you were a criminal for something you couldn’t control, with possible charges if the police just didn’t believe you?
I am glad you agree that women shouldn’t die because of abortion laws. However, impact is more important than intent. From a plethora of credible, peer-reviewed, evidence-based, academic studies, we can see that this is not what is happening in reality. Women ARE dying from these laws. When you police women’s bodies and medical procedures, and put laws on something that is, at times, necessary to save a woman’s life, it is extremely easy to go back and scrutinize decisions that doctors only have a few miliseconds to make in the moment after it has happened. This is why so many doctors are now delaying life-saving care for women in labor, causing their deaths.
I also find it to be very disingenuous when people claim to be pro-life, but overwhelmingly advocate and vote to take away measures that would actually support the woman and child after it is born. For example, Trump’s budget plan includes significant cuts to Food Stamps, as well as funding measures that have a high possibility of the inclusion of funding cuts for Medicare. The Trump Administration has also proposed cuts to programs that serve and provide meals for low-income children, such as Head Start, in addition to measures that will reduce access to free school lunch for low-income children. These proposals are overwhelmingly supported by politicians who claim to be pro-life. If one of the main reasons that women get abortions in the US is their fear of not having enough money to support the child, wouldn’t attempting to pass legislation that improves the lives of low-income mothers and women naturally decrease the abortion rate? By voting for legislation that makes it exponentially more difficult for low-income mothers to have and raise children (in addition to laws that significantly increase maternal mortality rates), women and mothers feel scared, unprotected, and desperate. Enacting extremely strict abortion bans that subject women to inhumane conditions while simultaneously making the lives of women who do give birth to children more financially unstable is the equivalent of putting a piece of tape over a cracked pipe instead of actually fixing it.
As for Trump, I do believe that people deserve second chances and that people can be forgiven if they admit to their wrongdoings, sincerely apologize, and show through their actions that they will not repeat the same behaviors again. However, Trump has done none of this. Instead of admitting to his predatory and abusive behavior and apologizing to the victims, he blames, lies about, and further victimizes the women he has abused, despite the evidence that found him liable of sexual abuse in court. Instead of changing his behaviors, he continues to make predatory and degrading remarks about women publicly. There’s a line between forgiving behavior and simply excusing and normalizing behavior. Just as it would be extremely ill-advised and dangerous to tell a battered wife to “just forgive” her abusive husband the day after he beat her and go back to living with him the day after it happened, or to allow a newly-convicted child predator to be a preschool teacher. Actions have consequences, and until Trump admits his wrong doing and changes, it is dangerous and unethical to put someone like him in charge of the health, safety, rights, and well-being of women and girls, in addition to several of his cabinet members who have also committed similar human rights violations with no apologies or changes in behavior. Trump only pretends to care about women on minute issues that align with his specific culture war policies, such rejoining the Geneva Consensus Declaration, of which the signatories are only authoritarian and autocratic countries, mainly in the Middle East and Africa, that have committed and continue to commit egregious human rights violations against women and girls. For the reasons stated above, this document willingly endangers the health and safety of American women without touching or even addressing societal issues that lead to women seeking abortions, all under the guise of “protecting women”. Ironically, predatory and abusive men such as Trump are the reason women need real protections in the first place, and it is a slap in the face to listen to such a man (who, mind you, made sexually charged comments at his own daughter, starting from when she was a toddler) pretending to care about women when he is the abuser.
It is also deeply disturbing to see how Trump’s misogyny plays out in his policies — from removing International Women’s Day from all calendars dispute the struggles women still face and have overcome in our society (especially in relation to overcoming rape, sexual abuse, human trafficking, exploitation, etc. — all of which disproportionately affect women), to censoring and covering up plaques honoring women in the NSA’s National Cryptologic Museum, to the passing of the SAVE Act, which has a high likelihood of preventing married women from voting (especially mothers and working mothers who may not have access to their documents or the time needed to hunt down every piece of paperwork they need), to banning the word “woman” from being used in scientific research from the NIH and the CDC (even through women’s health issues are significantly understudied, which, again, contributes to maternal mortality rates). Maybe you don’t notice these issues because they don’t personally impact you. However, they do personally impact me and half of the population in this country. I morally and ethically cannot and will not ever use my vote or my voice to support someone like this.