FROM SFLA NEWS

Chrissy Teigen Joins the Media’s Manipulation of Conflating Abortion and Miscarriage 

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Jordan Estabrook - 31 Oct 2024

Chrissy Teigen joined the abortion-crazed media in their old and cruel trick: conflating miscarriage and abortion to confuse and convince people to support killing preborn children and, as a result, villainizing pro-life laws.  

It’s a disgusting yet purposeful move by the media to simultaneously prey on women’s miscarriage pain and garner support for the preborns’ dismemberment through surgical abortion or starvation through Chemical Abortion Pills.

Recently, Chrissy Teigen decided that the miscarriage of her preborn son Jack was actually an abortion. According to People, “The couple lost son Jack when Teigen was 20 weeks pregnant due to partial placenta abruption — meaning, the placenta separated from the uterus wall too early, according to the Cleveland Clinic, which says it can be life-threatening…” 

A partial placenta abruption caused a miscarriage, NOT an abortion, as her husband, John Legend, describes in a recent podcast appearance:  

“She was miscarrying and bleeding out, and all these things were happening.” (emphasis added) 

But Teigen didn’t waste her own tragedy and seized the opportunity to become besties with the abortion industry, speaking in favor of Arizona’s Prop 139 at a recent rally, which would allow abortion up until birth. 

Sadly, the media doesn’t waste a tragedy either: miscarriage is a common and relatable issue among women, thus making it easier for the abortion industry to hijack the term when “baby killing” isn’t winning hearts, minds, and votes the way they thought. Mayo Clinic, along with many other organizations, recognizes that 10-20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage and is likely higher due to unrecognized miscarriage early in pregnancy.  

MedicinePlus gives an accurate and thorough definition of a miscarriage, describing it as follows:  

“A miscarriage is the spontaneous loss of a fetus before the 20th week of pregnancy. Pregnancy losses after the 20th week are called stillbirths. Miscarriage is a naturally occurring event, unlike medication abortions or abortion procedures.” (emphasis added)  

Note the keyword: naturally. Abortion is the purposeful and tragic killing of a preborn child, while a miscarriage is a sad and sudden loss. The two are fundamentally different. Yet, another attempt at confusion by the media is the one procedure that both abortions and miscarriages share, which is a D&C procedure.  

This procedure removes the deceased preborn child from the womb to prevent infection. This doesn’t mean, however, that any woman who gets a D&C due to miscarriage is having an “abortion” like the media suggests, nor is it an ectopic pregnancy. Students for Life of America (SFLA) has written extensively about this, stating on our website: 

“In the case of the genuine concern about women in these situations, the mainstream pro-life position is clear: Miscarriage is not abortion. Effective ectopic pregnancy care does not have to entail abortion. And women are not punished, period – not even for actual abortion.” 

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And regarding the dangers of pro-life laws to women who suffer miscarriages, medical professionals who DON’T partake in the barbaric practice of abortion should be trained to treat miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies and have no reason to blame “pro-life laws” for a woman’s lack of care. If they should blame anything, it should be lack of training.

“Procedures sometimes used to perform induced abortions, such as a D&C, are procedures commonly performed in the practice of obstetrics for the management of miscarriage,” said The Association of American Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) to SFLA in 2023. “All OB/GYN resident physicians, even those who train at hospitals who do not perform abortions or those who choose not to perform abortions, are well-trained in these procedures as part of their management of miscarriage. Miscarriage management is a part of every OB/GYN’s practice, as opposed to abortion which is not performed by 76-93% of OB’s.”  (emphasis added)  

Are you seeing the trend yet? Conflating the two is a fear-mongering tactic against women who’ve had a miscarriage or could have a miscarriage to push them to support pro-abortion laws and villainize life-saving legislation.  

There is something even more tragic than the media’s blatant malpractice – it’s the ruthless push of their abortion agenda at the expense of women who have suffered miscarriages. The media tried to play the term-switch game when Jessa Duggar Seewald announced via YouTube that she suffered a miscarriage and underwent a D&C to remove her passed child and prevent infection. Not long after, People Magazine published an article entitled “Jessa Duggar Says She Had a D&C, How Does That Differ from Other Abortion Procedures?” It is a cruel mischaracterization of a grieving woman brave enough to share her pain publicly.  

As SFLA writer Caroline Wharton put it perfectly, “When a woman has suffered the emotional trauma of a miscarriage, perhaps nothing could be more thoughtless than to imply her experience was the same as an abortion because she had no choice in the matter of her child’s death.” 

Wharton is spot on. If there was anything to add to her statement, “thoughtlessness” would extend to abortion supporters like Teigen who choose to exploit their miscarriage pain to champion intentional preborn death. Teigen is joined by the ‘One Tree Hill,’ ‘Pretty Little Liars,’ and ‘The Vampire Diaries,’ actress Torrey DeVitto, who erroneously claimed she had two abortions when she had only one. Her second pregnancy ended due to miscarriage.  

Miscarriage is painful, but it’s not abortion, and Teigen and the media’s effort to conflate them does injustice to the child and woman and minimizes miscarriage. Help exists for women who miscarry or abort their precious children, but they are not the same. We can’t allow the media and celebrities to confuse the two to force women through fear to bow down to the abortion industry.  

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