As media entities like Pro Publica circulate stories that purposefully and deceptively conflate miscarriages with abortions to scare women into supporting abortion extremism, Students for Life of America’s (SFLA) National Field Director Reagan Barklage hit right back.  

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In a fiery op-ed published in The Federalist entitled, “Democrat Activists Exploit Tragic Miscarriages Like Mine To Sell Abortions,” Barklage not only details her painful miscarriage but accurately depicts the most significant differences between miscarriage and abortion, which centers around intent.  Read an excerpt below:  

“Many women share the overwhelming and devastating experience of miscarrying; about 1 in 4 pregnancies ends in the miscarriage of the child. Healing isn’t quick or easy, emotionally or physically. It can take days, sometimes even weeks, of physical pain, bleeding, and eventually miscarrying. After that, more tears, numbness, hormonal changes, sleepless nights, and bodily aches fill the months ahead, all a constant reminder that you lost the child you wanted and loved so much. Having to carry on with life and tell people you’re no longer pregnant, especially your children, is the cherry on top of a crappy cake.  

But now the abortion industry has decided to add yet another layer of grief for women: using personal miscarriage tragedies, like mine, to fearmonger and deceive women into supporting pro-abortion laws, lest they die in the streets from not receiving miscarriage treatment. My blood boils listening to the abortion pundits’ malicious and blatant deception.   

While abortion is also a tragedy, it differs from miscarriage in one key area: intention.” 

While some miscarriages require a D&C for when the baby has already passed, this is not the same as a D&C meant to kill and dismember a preborn child purposefully.  

“Abortion directly and intentionally kills an innocent child who is living, growing, and developing,” wrote Barklage. “Sometimes, women receive miscarriage treatment to prevent them from suffering any further complications, such as infection, after their children have already passed. Unfortunately, women don’t always miscarry naturally and may require medical intervention, whether through a drug called misoprostol or a dilation and curettage (D&C) procedure…the abortion industry preys on women’s ignorance and plays on their emotions and grief. And for what? To justify killing babies up until birth and sometimes even after.” 

Barklage also participated in an SFLA social media response video to abortion pundits selling preborn deaths by purposefully conflating miscarriages. In the emotional video, many women share their miscarriages and take issue with the abortion industry’s heartless deception.

READ THE FULL OP-ED HERE 

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