Ben Zeisloft

Swedish singer-songwriter Zara Larsson commended one of her fans who joked about having an abortion shortly after her show. The fan said on TikTok, “i didn’t know i was pregnant here but at least my baby got to hear midnight sun before i aborted it.” Larsson reposted the video and commented, “I killed the performance and then you killed it after the performance purrrrrr.” Notice how both Larsson and her fan are completely aware of what happens during an abortion. The fan used the term “baby” to describe the child she willfully murdered. Larsson even affirmed that she “killed it.” In their brazen joking, these two women are plainly confessing truths that virtually all women who have abortions already know: that preborn babies are human persons made in the image of God and worthy of life, and that taking such innocent life is an act of murder. I have spent the past seven years doing regular sidewalk ministry outside of abortion facilities. I have therefore interacted with thousands of women who have abortions. These women are fully aware that they are murdering a child, and a non-insignificant share are very much willing to joke about and mock the baby they are about to murder. I also work full-time for a Christian political advocacy organization that writes legislation to establish equal protection of the laws for preborn babies. Our most significant opposition, especially in conservative states that should be able to abolish abortion, are pro-life establishment groups that insist women are “second victims” of abortion. Rather than framing women who have abortions as moral agents capable of understanding right and wrong, these pro-life groups frame them as clueless damsels in distress, and they even write laws ensuring no woman can ever be penalized for willfully murdering her own preborn baby. That is largely why abortion pills continue flowing into conservative states: law enforcement and prosecutors cannot hold women, who are the primary agents in self-managed abortions, legally accountable. The murder of preborn babies will continue in our nation as long as conservative Christians naively believe the “second victim” narrative about women who have abortions. Instead of granting women blanket immunity for abortion, we need to pass laws criminalizing abortion as murder for all parties involved, and allowing our justice system to determine which parties are innocent and which are guilty. Christians must work to make murdering anyone illegal for everyone. We must expect our pro-life lawmakers to support and pass equal protection of the laws for preborn babies, protecting them with the exact same laws against murder already protecting born people. We must accomplish these ends as swiftly as possible, for the glory of God and for the love of our preborn neighbors.

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