By Addia Wuchner, R.N., Executive Director, Kentucky Right to Life Education Foundation

This past week celebrated National Women’s Health Week, and each day we have shared on our Kentucky Right to Life Facebook page a graphic and short reflection on aspects of women’s health and well-being.

Many issues have surfaced that need more discussion, and over the next few months, we hope to share perspectives from ProLife healthcare professionals and women from around the Commonwealth through our blog and our “Wednesdays for Women” weekly radio show.

As women, we are incredibly strong and resilient. We are masters of tucking our heartache and pain away, pushing forward and moving onward. We are the experts of multitasking and pressing on and on, until sometimes we just can’t.

Today, more women are suffering from depression than at any other time in recorded history. The number of prescription antidepressants prescribed is at a historically alarming rate. The pro-abortionist argues that denying women access to abortion is a contributing factor. For years, they have claimed that “access” to what they package into an idea of reproductive health care, i.e. birth control and abortion would make women freer, more in control of their health and happier.

These statistical numbers of increased antidepressant prescriptions use by US women had been escalating long before the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022. More scare tactics used to manipulate women, culture, and voters….

Tragically, the American Medical Association (AMA) and others are constantly trying to convince us that women who have abortions will be healthier, happier, and how a more promising economic future.

The AMA’s response to the overturning of Roe was that “As physicians and their patients brace for a new reality that makes it even harder to access abortion care, previous research shows they can expect to see women’s physical and economic health negatively affected if they wish to have an abortion but are unable to access it.

“Women are emotionally resilient, but abortion is associated with improved physical health, financial security, and aspirational plans,” Diana Greene Foster, PhD, MA, said during an AMA Medical Student Section education session recorded for the 2022 AMA Annual Meeting.

I think theirs is an interesting sad perspective–instead of looking at how to improve healthcare access, health outcomes, and educational attainment—which improves social and economic well-being. In a statement reacting to the high court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, the former AMA President Jack Resneck Jr., MD, said that

“access to legal reproductive care will be limited to those with sufficient resources, circumstances, and financial means to do so—exacerbating health inequities by placing the heaviest burden on patients” from historically marginalized racial and ethnic groups, as well as those from low-income or rural communities “who already face numerous structural and systemic barriers to accessing health care.”

Good grief, this is nothing new — the same eugenics and targeting of racially marginalized and poor communities was promoted by the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger.

Margaret Sanger basically subscribed to eugenics—an inherently racist and ableist ideology that labeled certain people unfit to have children.

Eugenics is the theory that society can be improved through planned breeding for “desirable traits” like intelligence and industriousness. In the early 20th century, eugenic ideas were popular among highly educated, privileged, and mostly white Americans. Sanger pronounced her belief in and alignment with the eugenics movement many times in her writings, especially in the scientific journal Birth Control Review.

Today, the well-funded and clever Planned Parenthood continues to impact culture by flooding TikTok and YouTube with their gross and misleading videos.

Our response to their myriad of confusing and misleading tactics must be

Every mother matters.

Every life matters!

Every preborn Kentuckian matters.

And every fragile and infirm life matters!

In the weeks ahead, we hope to take an in-depth look at the abortion industry and Planned Parenthood’s view on women’s health that seems to be driving the false narrative that is impacting the lives and future health of Kentucky women and girls.

We will also look at the ProLife perspective of care and how we tenderly and respectfully care the complicate pregnancies, pre-born Kentuckians and for the aging and those whose lives are in their final days and hours.

Blessings and as always, thank you for your unwavering ProLife hearts!

Be Their Voice,
Addia

P.S. Please see a few of the highlights from our graphic ads, FB and Instagram post from this past week.