Reproductive Justice or Entitlement?
Since the overturn of Roe v Wade, the general outcry of the pro-abortion movement for women’s reproductive healthcare has heightened. Confusion seems to abound around the topic of available healthcare for women experiencing difficult pregnancies.
It is noteworthy that so many people have been indoctrinated into a culture of choice that primarily speaks death over their unborn, that we have forgotten what reproductive healthcare is really for.
Healthcare in every area is provided to re-establish health or improve any ailing physical or mental conditions. A good friend of mine, who is a gastroenterologist treats patients whose digestive organs fail or don’t function optimally. His job as a healthcare provider is to do everything in his power and expertise to restore health to the individuals who come to him. I imagine there would be serious outrage if he were to do surgery on a perfectly functioning digestive system.
Why does that not apply to reproductive healthcare? Pregnancy is a sign of a healthy reproductive system. It’s not a disease or an ailment to be treated. There are women who struggle with infertility seeking medical help and interventions because they know that their bodies are unable to do what it should be doing naturally.
Over the years, reproductive healthcare has expanded to include procedures and treatments to condition a woman’s body to perform contrary to normal functions. Hormonal pills which were designed to help regulate irregularities in menstrual cycles are recommended as birth control to young girls whose bodies are still developing.
The abortion industry is NOT reproductive healthcare as it targets a perfectly functioning reproductive system and kills the new life that is formed simply for the sake of business and profit. Veiling this horrible evil with terms like “reproductive healthcare” does not change the fact that abortion invades a well-functioning organ in a woman’s body, ripping out her child and scarring her physically and emotionally.
It is common knowledge that you can get pregnant if you have sex. There is no way to undo this natural law. Reproductive healthcare must extend to every individual involved – the mother and the baby growing in her womb. That’s reproductive justice. “Justice” gained by the annihilation of the innocent is entitlement, not justice.
Since the Dobbs decision, there have been concerns among women that healthcare interventions will be withheld in the case of pregnancy complications that pose a threat to the mother’s life. An abortion ban does not restrict access to healthcare that could potentially cause the natural termination of the baby in the course of the treatment to save the mother’s life. This is different from inducing abortion for the sole purpose of ending the life of the unborn baby.
The demand of abortionists and activists is not for healthcare or choice, but for the right to live without responsibility from the moral and natural consequences of their choices. Choices that they have already made. Natural order follows that every choice has a consequence. To choose is to take responsibility for the consequences that ensue. Maybe it’s time they reconsidered using the word “pro-choice” and used “self-entitled” instead?
