The Answer is Always Life
“One thing that every person can agree on is this: everyone needs to feel empowered. This makes sense. Empowerment can boost the boldness, confidence, and actions of every individual and can have lasting effects on the courses of their lives.
When it comes to abortion, however, two clinics involved in the debate have different approaches when it comes to empowering men and women. So, which approach is empowering?
One clinic believes that the best way to empower men and women is to help them make the best decision for only themselves. What that decision is, though, is having a man and woman tread dreadfully — sometimes with their already-born children — into a chilled, sterile abortion clinic to pay someone to kill and dispose of the woman’s unborn baby. With the slow, gruesome dismemberment of her child — often being dismissed as “not developed” or “tissue” — the woman’s worries and fears are merely swept away. No more stress about raising a child or guilt for giving him or her up for adoption. She can now focus on herself and her own life, and that clinic isn’t responsible for what happens afterwards either.
That very same clinic also believes that the man should support the woman’s choice — that any opposition to that choice should be swiftly confronted with accusations of support for the “patriarchy” or “misogyny.”
One clinic also believes in empowering men and women but with a drastically different approach. Instead of dismembering the child, that very same man and woman can walk into a clinic that is devoted to them making the best decision for not only themselves, but also for their child and their family.
At no cost to them at all, that very clinic — referred to as a pregnancy resource center, or by our liberal friends as a “fake clinic” — offers free prenatal care and ultrasound checkups performed by licensed medical practitioners as well as baby outfits, formula, and diapers for the family. They not only offer the man the counseling he needs to cope with being a father to the child and a devoted partner to the woman, but they also offer counseling to both on what it means to be phenomenal parents. They foster an environment where they can truly encourage men and women to defy the odds — to go against the suggestions (or coercions) of others to get rid of their child — regardless of any dire straits or unpleasant circumstances that they bring their child into. These clinics are not forceful or motivated by profits. They are institutions that are devoted to nothing but life and love for the family throughout the pregnancy and afterwards.
One thing that must be understood, though, is this: being in a crisis pregnancy is never a mere undertaking. Rather, it is a journey filled with fear and uncertainty that can drive any woman to do or ask for unspeakable things. This is why love, compassion, and sympathy from both men and women are vital to giving the woman both the tranquility and the empowerment to make the best decision for herself, her life, and her family.
One clinic offers a way out; one clinic offers a way through. So, which approach is empowering? Notice how I begin each paragraph with ‘one.’ There is only one right answer to that question: that answer is always life.”
Guest Writer Bio
Cullen Dittmar is a a finance and accounting student at Lindenwood University. He is the president of Lindenwood’s Turning Point USA chapter, a PAC employee working to elect US Senate candidate Eric Schmitt, former volunteer of Let Them Live, and a servant to God and His law. He enjoys lifting weights, light reading, streaming on Netflix, and hanging out with friends. He also believes the most important right that any person can have is the right to life, and that could not be more true when it comes to abortion.