From Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson:
According to a new report by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, the number of abortions in Wisconsin increased by 3.7 percent in 2017 over the previous year’s total.
Heather Weininger, Executive Director of Wisconsin Right to Life, said the increase is not a surprise.
“After a brand-new, state-of-the-art abortion clinic opened in Milwaukee’s trendy Third Ward we should have all been on high alert that abortions were soon to be on the upward climb,” Weininger said in a statement Thursday.
Weininger said that despite the complaints by Planned Parenthood, access to abortion is not being restricted.
“For too many years, Planned Parenthood was seeing a decline in their revenue and they were ready at every turn to reverse the downturn in profits,” Weininger said. “For years we have heard Planned Parenthood saying the pro-life movement is limiting access to abortion. It looks like the abortion industry has gotten what it wanted: More unborn babies being murdered, and more women who will suffer the devastating consequences of abortion.”
“…more women who will suffer the devastating consequences of abortion.”
Setting aside the matter of the potentially devastating consequences of having a child you can’t afford and don’t want…
Whatever the consequences Weininger has in mind, the mother is choosing to accept the risk after fair warning, so this is not a relevant moral argument against abortion. It certainly shouldn’t be considered such among people who claim to champion personal responsibility and accountability and often gleefully insist that people suffer for their poor choices.
Why is it so hard for pro-lifers to understand that they need to think about their arguments if they really want to engage with the secular world and convince people who don’t already accept their entire ideology? It is frustrating to hear the same nonsense again and again from leaders within the group. And these arguments aren’t even in good faith if the primary (or only) reason for which they oppose abortion is some half-baked religious concept of a soul whose relevance to the moral debate they rarely bother to even try to establish.