Reddit forum bans user for offering pro-life options to pregnant woman
“In the name of being ‘pro-choice,’ women are being denied real choices.”
For years, pro-abortion advocates have camouflaged their position behind the banner of “choice,” but sadly, they’re often not interested in choice at all.
Just look at the way pro-life pregnancy centers are treated – targeted by terrorists and politicians alike, simply for not offering women the option to abort their babies.
Recently, Andrea Trudden of the pro-life organization Heartbeat International experienced the bitter, deathly irony of the anti-choice “choice” crowd when she chimed in on an abortion-focused Reddit forum.
Trudden wrote for LifeNews that she was banned after simply suggesting to a woman that she reach out to a pro-life organization for help.
“I was banned from an abortion-focused Reddit forum for simply suggesting that a woman—who explicitly said she felt pressured into an abortion by her boyfriend—reach out to Option Line to find safe housing and support,” she wrote.” The response I received was blunt: ‘We ban sharing of anti-abortion resources.’”
“There it was. No debate. No discussion. A clear and outright rejection of any alternative to abortion—even when a woman herself expressed hesitation and concern about her circumstances,” she continued.
Trudden explained that she’d found her way to the Reddit forum by following links from an organization that ships abortion pills through the mail, Aid Access.
“The contrast between the two was striking. Aid Access and similar groups claim to stand for ‘choice,’ but when that choice is anything other than abortion, the door slams shut,” she explained.
So, the Reddit forum didn’t merely offer women support in their “choice,” they outright block women from receiving any support from a resource that is not explicitly pro-abortion.
Trudden went on to explain that the real outrage isn’t the fact that she was banned from Reddit for suggesting the name of a pro-life group.
The real outrage—and she’s completely correct—is that “women in need are being cut off from help they might desperately want.”
Think about it. If the only resources offered to women in crisis pregnancies are pro-abortion, this means they are entirely focused on highlighting abortion choices, not all choices for women.
A group that sends out abortion pills through the mail is focused on doing that, not in helping a woman make the best choice for her baby.
Now, if someone really believes that a woman should have the choice between abortion and keeping her baby, wouldn’t they want her to have access to every possible option?
Pro-life organizations that oppose abortion don’t profess to help women get abortions, they are working to do the exact opposite (and rightly so, because abortion is completely immoral).
Wouldn’t they be the perfect option to help someone who didn’t want to abort her baby?
They would, to a truly objective person — but these groups are never objective. They are in the business of defending abortion, and so they are in the business of helping women obtain abortions, at all costs. Even the flat-out denial of the truth — that every woman does have the choice to keep her baby.
Everyone needs to know they have options. I was pregnant at 16 and scared to death and I didn’t know I had options until someone told me I did and it sure as hell wasn’t planned pregnancy. Guess what, I kept that baby against the baby‘s father and my friends in high school telling me to get an abortion. That child is now in his 50s and has turned out to be one of the biggest blessings in my life. Thank you, Jesus. 🙏
We need to stand our ground. (No matter what the cost). I think that is why Christianity is becoming so weak. We need to fight the good fight of faith in the Good news. Pro life not pro choice.