Dear Pro Life Partners, December 1, 2021

Delusions of Equity

In the news. The City of Boston now allows its employees to take up to 12 weeks of leave with pay when
they abort their unborn babies. The city council unanimously passed the amendment to its parental leave
policy to include paid leave for men and women for “pregnancy loss, including abortions for any reason (Life
News, 11/15/21). Parental or bereavement leave for employees who have abortions appears to be a
growing trend. In October, Portland, Oregon also expanded bereavement leave to include abortions. (New
Zealand, on the other hand, passed a law this year that requires bereavement leave of up to 3 days for
parents who lose an unborn baby to miscarriage. This law does not apply to abortion.) newly elected Boston
Mayor Michelle Wu, a vocal pro-choice advocate, ran on a platform which included “gender-affirming
(transgender) healthcare,” and supporters of this new amendment, such as councilwoman Lydia Edwards,
stated “I think this makes us more equitable.” (LifeSiteNews, 11/22/21) Equitable. The new sacred cow.

Oh the ridiculousness! Oh the complete lack of logic and consistency. I won’t say hypocrisy, because the
authors of such legislation as this truly believe they are doing something good. Ciswomen’s rights,
transwomen’s rights, look how compassionate we are! However, when you break it down, it becomes
patently delusional. Women who take paid bereavement leave are being rewarded for taking the life of the
very person they are “mourning.” (Not to mention, for those on the fence as to whether to abort, this could
become an incentive.) But wait, I’m confused…if the baby is a life, then shouldn’t the person responsible for
ending it be penalized, not rewarded? And if it isn’t a life, as pro-choicers would have you believe, then
what are you grieving? Perhaps post-pregnancy employees need the 12-week paid vacation to deal with the
trauma of a procedure that Planned Parenthood has been claiming for years to be “safe” and non-invasive.
This is classic “have your cake and eat it too” mentality, the mixing of truth and lies.

In a sense, this nonsense thinking is doing the pro-life movement a favor (stay with me here). When it
becomes more and more apparent that the emperor has no clothes, then those willing to acknowledge it
can wake up and be free from the deceptive narrative. It is also freeing for us to understand that we are not
responsible for anyone’s else’s beliefs. Our duty is to be true to our own convictions and always equipped to
defend them, but there are those who will never be swayed because they do not want to be. In this era of
increasing unrest and (dare I say it) evil, pro-life legislation is key to upholding the sanctity of life in the face
of those who would destroy it, but the individual requires something more personal to affect change. Often
we cannot predict what exactly will cause the light of truth to take hold in someone’s heart and mind, but
we can be someone who shines it consistently in their life.

Take “Abortion King” Bernard Nathanson, for example. As the founder of NARAL and the architect of the
abortion industry in America, he was instrumental in over 75,000 abortions and spread propaganda and
false statistics to deceive Americans and the courts (see the film Roe v. Wade). Then one day, an unsolicited
epiphany came to him. He was killing innocent life, and he became staunchly pro-life. There is hope.

Partnering with you for life,

Linda Verhulst, MRL-WR