A recent brouhaha on social media concerned whether talking about killing a baby in an abortion can be described as humor.
The Swedish singer Zara Larsson attracted both criticism and accolades for a comment she posted online and then later defended as “funny.”
On TikTok, a fan posted to Larsson that when she attended a performance, “I didn't know I was pregnant here but at least my baby got to hear Midnight Sun before I aborted it."
Responding in the comments, Larsson wrote, "I killed the performance and then you killed it after the performance purrrrrr."
The fan talked about a baby and the singer talked about killing the baby. This was no blob of tissue being discussed.
“Sorry, that’s funny… sorry if you don’t have humour,” Larsson posted after some people - but not all - criticized her for the heartless comment.
Larsson made her comment at the same time the mainstream media was providing wall-to-wall coverage of a different story, about a woman in Georgia who was arrested for allegedly using abortion pills to kill a baby beyond six weeks, the limit in that state.
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“Veteran, 31, Charged with Murder on Suspicion of Taking Abortion Pill Under Georgia’s Strict Ban,” People magazine screamed in a headline. In an accompanying “Need to Know” box, we read “Advocates argue the case highlights the criminalization of abortion and the need for safe access to reproductive healthcare.”
Apparently “access” was not a problem. Alexia Moore allegedly told hospital officials she obtained the drug misoprostol online.
That’s the second drug used in a chemical abortion, and while some “physicians” claim it can be used alone through the second trimester, it has to be administered every three hours under the supervision of a healthcare professional. Moore allegedly took an oxycodone and did it herself.
Was her abortion safe? Clearly not, as Moore ended up in the hospital suffering from severe pain.
Most of the news stories eventually get around to telling us the baby was aborted at 22 to 24 weeks’ gestation, that she was born alive and that she survived for an hour or so before being declared dead.
Moore was charged with murder because Georgia has a heartbeat law that protects babies, like this baby girl, when their hearts are beating. But a judge later said he was not sure the charge could be proven and let her out on $1 bail.
No reporter thought to ask - or did not want to know - if lifesaving care was provided to this baby, as required by law. Babies younger than this child have survived in neonatal intensive care units and are thriving today.
The outrage is palpable that Moore, an Army veteran, is facing consequences for aborting her child. But she had choices. She could have traveled to a state that has no limits on abortion; shockingly, there are 10 of them in the U.S.
Another choice this mother could have made would have been to continue her pregnancy for another four months, give birth to her daughter, and surrender her - legally and safely - according to Safe Haven laws in effect in all 50 states.
In Georgia, the Safe Place for Newborns Act allows mothers to surrender babies up to 30 days old at hospitals, fire stations, and police precincts. She would never have had to even give her name. Now, everyone knows her name.
There’s another takeaway from the story that’s being largely overlooked: Chemical abortion proves time and time again that it is not safer than Tylenol, as ludicrously claimed by Planned Parenthood.
Chemical abortion sends many more women to the hospital than surgical abortion does, and since it has been available on line and delivered by mail - the lasting legacy of the Biden era - there have been frequent reports of reluctant fathers slipping the drugs to their pregnant partners, sending mothers to the hospital with dead babies and dads to central booking.
Tweet This: Chemical abortion sends many more women to the hospital than surgical abortion, and its availability online/via mail adds even more danger.
Bills in Congress, letters to the FDA and basic humanity all point to the fact that we, as a nation, need to take a hard look at the truth about chemical abortion, and ask why dangerous drugs originally used only until seven weeks in pregnancy are being used legally till 10 weeks and clandestinely till the end of the second trimester and beyond. We need to ask why they are being used at all.
Alexia Moore and her baby were victims of this abortion-at-all-costs mentality we have yet to vanquish. It’s time to recognize that chemical abortion is always bad for the baby, and it’s always bad for the mother.
And it is never, ever, a laughing matter.
Editor’s note: Janet Morana is the executive director of Priests for Life and co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign. This article is a Pregnancy Help News original.
