Abortion enthusiast Jessica Valenti “has spent the last two decades” writing in favor of all things abortion, which now includes a book titled Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win. As this is Valenti’s eighth book, her diatribe continues, but her “facts” come from curated collages of abortion advocacy and, in my case, outright falsehood. Journalism it’s not.
In hawking her book, Valenti — like most abortion extremists — justifies all intentional abortion by highlighting the issue of rape. But in this book, she lies about not only my point of view but my record. Valenti cuts a sliver of a quote out of context to make a false and cruel accusation, taken from the context of a detailed discussion about how to understand sexual assault and abortion while skipping inconvenient facts that undercut the narrative.
This is a painful topic, but as the abortion lobby forces sexual assault survivors into the debate, it’s sadly often demanded of pro-life advocates who love them both — a hurting mother and a child in the womb.
In an excerpt of Valenti’s book that appeared in Rolling Stone, she writes:
Anti-abortion lawmakers and activists also claim that pregnancy after rape is rare — a claim designed to hide their utter cruelty, and to pivot when asked about abortion ban exceptions. Some even say that women can’t get pregnant from a rape at all. Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins — who has been celebrated as the future of the anti-abortion movement — says that “sexual assault actually helps prevent
