Miscarriage Is Not At All Morally Equivalent To Abortion

The fundamental difference is that those of us who lost our babies through miscarriages want our children to live.

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This piece was originally published in TheFederalist.com

After a draft majority opinion from the Supreme Court that would overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked early this week, abortion supporters have come out in full force to denounce the potential decision. One of the worst takes of these abortion supporters has been to make abortions and miscarriages morally equivalent. 

Here’s a Twitter thread from Alex Falcone, a blue check who claims to have appeared on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.” In one tweet, Falcone claimed, “Nobody’s passing laws to reduce miscarriages, they’re not holding rallies.”

In another one, he doubled down his insults to parents who lost children through miscarriages, “We rarely talk about miscarriages even though they happen to basically everybody you know. They’re devastating, but not because of souls. Nobody talks about how they can’t wait to be reunited with their fetus in heaven because they don’t actually believe that.”

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