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Sarah Owens came to a Planned Parenthood clinic in fear. After getting the hard sell to have an abortion, she left in disgust.
Now, Owens is crusading against federal funding for the mammoth organization.
“It will never be my choice to give my tax dollars to an organization that continues to harm lives while claiming they provide care to women,” she wrote for The Federalist.
Owens came to her position through life lessons she learned by personal encounters of the worst kind. While in college, she was concerned she might be pregnant. She visited a Planned Parenthood clinic to be tested. On the form given to her when she arrived at the clinic, she did not check abortion as an option she would consider. This decision earned her the judgement and scorn of the Planned Parenthood representative that met with her.
“‘Why won’t you consider abortion?’ the representative asked. ‘You realize what a strain on your life parenting would be, don’t you?’ I explained that abortion just wasn’t something I personally believed in. She scoffed at me,” Owens wrote, noting that she did not need to make a decision because she was not pregnant.
“I left the office and cried. Maybe it was relief, but I mostly felt hurt and manipulated,” she added.
Owens said there is an underlying fallacy with the “pro-choice” position.
“The ‘choices’ liberals fail to take into consideration are the choices that lead to a pregnancy. Since when did fear of the unknown become cause to end a life?” she wrote.
Owens said abortion is not the alternative to the complications of life.
“The issue is with thinking that abortion is a fix to an absolute problem. Can’t afford a kid? Abortion. Too busy for a kid? Abortion. Not the ‘right time’? Abortion,” she wrote.
Owens admits that pro-life politicians need to ensure there is a safety net to care for all children who are born, even to welfare mothers. But she knows Planned Parenthood and their big-business abortion agenda is not the answer.
“When did the solution to our welfare problem became preventing babies from taking their first breaths? When did we decide that killing the problem was a fit solution?”
h/t: The Federalist