By Maria V. Gallagher, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Pro-Life Federation
No, advocates for life are not “out of their minds” when it comes to the issue of abortion.
The claim came from pro-abortion Democrat Presidential candidate Kamala Harris, who issued the diatribe during her nomination acceptance speech at her party’s convention.
It was obviously designed to be a soundbite to satiate a news media which often seems poised to vilify those who oppose legal abortion.
Ad hominem attacks are nothing new to pro-life activists. They are a sign of exasperation based on the fact that the arguments for abortion up to the moment of birth are deeply flawed. Harris opposes any and all limits on abortion—a stand that is in stark contrast to the views of mainstream Americans.
In an effort to undermine the standing of pro-life advocates in society, Harris is trying to dismiss pro-lifers as crazy. But what is actually the height of irrationality is trying to argue for the butchering of babies in their mothers’ wombs. Not only does abortion kill an innocent child—it also leaves a mother to grieve for the child she has lost. Many of these women—perhaps even most—are pressured to have abortions they don’t even want.
It is Harris, and those who agree with her, who “out of their minds.”
The verbal slings and arrows being thrown at pro-lifers will not silence us. Rather, they serve to embolden us to continue to speak the truth in love.
I hope and pray that someday the Vice-President will see the brutal reality of abortion for what it is—an act of violence against the most vulnerable. It is not health care—it is the exact opposite of care for both mother and child.