ROUGH FEW MONTHS FOR PRO-ABORTION CROWD

By Bill Dunn

The last few months have been kind of rough for pro-abortion folks. First, the director of the Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan, Texas, Abby Johnson, resigned from her position last fall and joined the Coalition for Life. Johnson had become increasingly uncomfortable with Planned Parenthood’s financial motivation for performing as many abortions as possible. She explained that pregnancy prevention was no longer a major goal of the organization because “the money wasn’t in family planning, the money wasn’t in prevention, the money was in abortion.”

The final straw for Johnson occurred when she was asked to assist in an abortion procedure at the clinic. She watched in horror on an ultrasound screen as the doomed baby struggled in vain to avoid the steel surgical tools that eventually dismembered its body.

Baffled as to why one of their own would defect to the enemy camp, officials at Planned Parenthood immediately went into full attack mode and leveled many ludicrous and unsubstantiated charges against Johnson. Apparently, the idea that her conscience might have bothered her never occurred to them as a valid explanation.

In January, a scientific survey was released that showed a whopping 60-percent of young adults in the U.S. believe abortion is “morally wrong.” Even middle-aged Baby Boomers are starting to see the light. Fully 51-percent of that self-obsessed generation, which demanded the legalization of abortion back in the turbulent 1960s and ‘70s, now agrees that abortion is “morally wrong.”

Then there was the controversy surrounding Tim Tebow’s 30-second Super Bowl commercial. If you missed all the hubbub, let me recap: Tim Tebow is the Heisman trophy-winning quarterback at the University of Florida, and he shares his Christian views freely. Back in 1987, when Tim’s mom Pam was pregnant with the future All-American, health problems prompted a doctor to advise Mrs. Tebow to have an abortion. She refused and instead chose life.

The brief commercial during the Super Bowl was simple, cute, and cuddly, and never once mentioned anything even remotely political, religious, or controversial.

In the days leading up to the Super Bowl, feminist groups and other pro-abortion advocates went ballistic, charging the Tebow’s with every offense under the sun. Before even seeing the actual commercial, Erin Mattson, vice president of The National Organization for Women, told ABC News that Tim’s story was “really quite offensive….This ad is hate masquerading as love.”

The Women’s Media Center called on CBS to cancel the commercial, stating in a shrill letter to the network, “The content of this ad endangers women’s health.”

But some liberal feminists had the guts to break ranks with their outraged sisters. Sally Jenkins, a sports writer for the Washington Post, noted, “I’m pro-choice, and Tebow clearly is not. But…I’ll take his side against the group-think, elitism and condescension of the ‘National Organization of Fewer and Fewer Women All The Time.’”

Jenkins also observed that when feminist groups attack an ad in which a woman discusses her choice not to abort, they “aren’t actually ‘pro-choice’ so much as they are pro-abortion.”

People are finally beginning to understand that so-called pro-choicers care little for choice. No matter what words of deception and deflection are employed—choice, privacy, freedom, self-determination, etc.—a majority of citizens have asked themselves the two simple questions Abby Johnson asked while viewing the ultrasound: If it’s not alive, then why is it moving? If it’s not a human being, then what kind of being is it? And this majority now understands that abortion is morally wrong.

Yes, a rough few months indeed.