The official scold of the U.S. Senate, Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), has plunged headlong and headstrong into a new crusade. This time it’s against so-called Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs).
Wherever tradition or morality attempts to reassert itself, Senator Warren bursts forth, screeching and manning (oops, wrong word) the barricades, lest truth or justice gain a foothold.
In the Senator’s crosshairs right now are CPCs, referred to by their allies as pregnancy resource centers. These centers are mostly run by volunteers who provide care, counseling, and resources for pregnant women who are wavering as to whether to carry their children to term, or are having emotional, financial, or family difficulty. The centers offer prenatal care such as ultrasounds, and practical post-birth assistance such as diapers, housing, adoption, social services, even furniture.
To Senator Warren, along with her friend, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, CPCs seek to deceive women into coming into their facilities on a false pretense, namely that they are really abortion clinics.
Senator Warren fumed, “Here in Massachusetts, these so-called crisis pregnancy centers outnumber genuine abortion clinics by three to one.” She even claimed the clinics are staffed with “people who wish them [the pregnant women] harm.”
Healey, the Massachusetts attorney general, deep into her campaign for governor, issued a press release and an official “Alert” to citizens in the state about the alleged dangers of CPCs.
Vandals have recently attacked around 30 of these pregnancy resource centers around the nation, including two in Massachusetts. A group called Jane’s Revenge has signed its name in red spray paint at several of these sites to draw attention to its mission of punishing women for choosing life. In Massachusetts, they broke windows and defaced buildings.
Senator Warren has not condemned that violence at all. By contrast, abortion proponents have condemned even “intimidation” by sidewalk counselors at abortion clinics, and have persuaded Congress to federalize drastic penalties for doing so, under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
Senator Warren has now introduced a bill in Congress to fine these pro-life pregnancy resource centers $100,000 or 50 percent of the revenue they earn for each instance of providing “disinformation” to any patron. Recalling the recent banning of prominent figures from social media, such as former president Trump and many others, for stating an unapproved opinion, and the uproar over a proposed federal disinformation czar, no reasonable person would rely on the government to define that term.
What inflames these government officials with such hatred for women and children that they want to restrict women to only one choice — abortion? They use their power and influence to impose their single-minded political viewpoint on the country, and condemn any person who disagrees as evil, intolerant, anti-choice and anti-freedom. Oh, the irony. “Choice” obviously includes choices, not just the one demanded by Senator Warren and her allies.
What these officials are doing is not just political manipulation, but a willful distortion of the truth.
The senator cites no evidence that women are stupid and unable to discern the purpose of a pregnancy resource center. She accuses these facilities of deceiving women, but produces no example of a person duped. Such a claim is all hype and speculation. That the ratio of resource centers to abortuaries is three to one is no argument that they harm women.
Even more absurd is the Senator’s assertion that workers at these centers wish their patrons harm. The tens of thousands of volunteers and medical personnel at these centers give of their time to show love and compassion to women suffering from poverty, family abuse and the anti-life sentiment in our culture. It is stressful work, and requires that they pour out their very lives to serve their clients, many of whom come from extremely dysfunctional family situations.
Senator Warren ought to congratulate these heroes who care for women in need. Does she really care for women as she claims, or does she just love abortion, and not actual people in need of a helping hand?
The Charlotte Lozier Institute estimates that the 2,700 or so pregnancy resource centers in the U.S. have saved about 800,000 babies since 2016. To this news, Senator Warren takes to the airwaves to demand a law which would make it stop. In her view, the law should punish caregivers who help women to bring their children into the world.
The irrational fury of Senator Warren’s public statements on this issue begs the question as to why she is so ferociously pro-death. Why does feel it is her duty to interfere with women’s choices, after a lifetime of preaching that we should respect those choices? In her view, only the abortion option should be lawfully advocated by anyone, with drastic legal penalties for favoring life.
Along with Warren at her recent press conference was Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who delivered one of the most cliché-soaked quotes on record: “This is a patriarchal, misogynist, xenophobic manifestation of a radical right wing extremist vision of the United States of America.”
Markey is a bland back-bencher who has not worked a real job for half a century. He stood next to Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) at the unveiling of her “Green New Deal” several years ago, as a way to fend off a primary challenge to his re-election.
At least Senator Warren is consistent — violence is fine to use against any person or institution who opposes the violence of termination of babies in the womb. And those who would bring love, service, justice, and life to women and children must be punished and their property vandalized.
By contrast, Moses set out in the Torah the view of life that has animated every civilization that has ever flourished: “God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth.’”
Where did Senators Warren and Markey get their views?
