In June 2022, when the US Supreme Court published its decision in Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health Center, misinformation and fear mongering about pregnant women’s access to emergency care spread quickly, uncritically and widely in the media. So I launched the Pro-Life Professional Insight project, hosted by Rehumanize International, to collect and publish stories from pro-life medical professionals, which illustrate how they protect, not threaten, women’s health. Click below to go to the project site.

Pro-Life Professional Insight Project

I have also written and spoken to clear away this misinformation in other venues:

Abortion Confusion Needs Greater Wisdom, Not More Abortion

The ethics and legality of elective abortion are completely different than that of treating pregnancy complications, even if elective abortion sometimes uses the same medical procedures as true medical treatment. Here is the difference: In an elective abortion, a doctor tries to end the life of a child for reasons that are social, not medical. By contrast, in the medical management of pregnancy, the doctor tries to resolve a pathological condition so that the mother can give birth to the child.

Abortion Is, and Is Not, a Religious Issue

It is surprising to hear people say, as the The New York Times’ Elizabeth Dias reported, that the proposition “Life begins at conception” is a religious belief. No religious authority ever reasoned to the conclusion that life begins at conception based on divine revelation or any set of religious teachings. “Life begins at conception” is a scientific and philosophical conclusion and is hardly a religious belief. But to portray it so appears to counter the most serious objection that abortion advocates face. If “life begins at conception” were seen as a religious belief, then it could be dismissed as dependent upon religious authority and an inappropriate basis for civil law.

Podcast Episodes: The Voices of Pro-Life Medical Professionals

Episodes 21 & 22 on the Caring For Both podcast of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians & Gynecologists

I discuss the ethical distinction between elective abortion and emergency care, pro-life professionals’ stories from the project, and take-aways for pro-lifers from listening to women’s abortion stories.