Thank you for this piercing and unflinching essay. As someone who holds deep convictions about life, dignity, and faith, I must say: we are failing both women and truth when policies protect uteruses over people, potential over personhood.
True reverence for life must include the life already lived. Adriana was a daughter, a soul, a human being. To reduce her to a vessel, lifeless yet legally bound, is not pro-life. It’s state-sanctioned desecration.
There’s a dangerous distortion at work here. When laws force a brain-dead woman’s body to remain on life support solely because she was pregnant, we’ve crossed a threshold; not into moral conviction, but into moral theatre. And it’s the women who pay the price in silence, in suffering, and in stolen dignity.
If your stance on life leads to cruelty, coercion, or control, it is not rooted in justice or love. It is idolatry. It worships ideology at the expense of image-bearers.
We must do better. We must mourn what has been lost. And we must resist any system that turns wombs into altars and grief into legislation.
The law criminalizing miscarriages are absolutely horrifying. All those laws around abortion are too but the miscarriage one really gets to me.
You really cannot win. The only option I see to stay away from breaking all those stupid laws is to never ever have sex with men ever and never try to have kids any other ways.
Thank you for saying what we're all screaming inside about, and can't put into words. It's horrifying. I worry for my daughter's future. She's 13. She deserves a better future than this... absolute shitshow she's being given. How do we fight back? When they scoff at marches in protest... How do good people fight back to make a difference?
Thank you for this piercing and unflinching essay. As someone who holds deep convictions about life, dignity, and faith, I must say: we are failing both women and truth when policies protect uteruses over people, potential over personhood.
True reverence for life must include the life already lived. Adriana was a daughter, a soul, a human being. To reduce her to a vessel, lifeless yet legally bound, is not pro-life. It’s state-sanctioned desecration.
There’s a dangerous distortion at work here. When laws force a brain-dead woman’s body to remain on life support solely because she was pregnant, we’ve crossed a threshold; not into moral conviction, but into moral theatre. And it’s the women who pay the price in silence, in suffering, and in stolen dignity.
If your stance on life leads to cruelty, coercion, or control, it is not rooted in justice or love. It is idolatry. It worships ideology at the expense of image-bearers.
We must do better. We must mourn what has been lost. And we must resist any system that turns wombs into altars and grief into legislation.
The law criminalizing miscarriages are absolutely horrifying. All those laws around abortion are too but the miscarriage one really gets to me.
You really cannot win. The only option I see to stay away from breaking all those stupid laws is to never ever have sex with men ever and never try to have kids any other ways.
Thank you for saying what we're all screaming inside about, and can't put into words. It's horrifying. I worry for my daughter's future. She's 13. She deserves a better future than this... absolute shitshow she's being given. How do we fight back? When they scoff at marches in protest... How do good people fight back to make a difference?
Not pro-life. It's pro-rights. C'mon. Cut it out. Most people are in favor of life.
Mark Weiss aka Schminkie