Christian Post Attacks Abortion Abolitionism With Self-Own

Christian Post is a slave to multiple masters, making it editorially inconsistent. One of their masters is feminism. In a recent column, Christian Post attacks abortion abolitionism, the idea that abortion should be made illegal, because women do not understand what abortion is. However, Victoria Robinson’s article opens with a macabre self-own. 

Here article Abortion abolitionism’s shame-based legalism. I will never support it opens as follows:

Forty years ago, I made the worst decision of my life when, as a desperate, single mom of two kids, I aborted my third child. 

I’ve since found forgiveness in Jesus Christ, and part of my redemptive journey has been playing an active role in the pro-life movement for three decades. Today, I regularly host retreats and help post-abortive women find healing with an organization I founded called Reassemble.

Yet at present, the broader pro-life movement I’ve long championed is being divided internally by those with a radically different approach. They call themselves “abolitionists.” They are leading with hard-edged, shame-based legalism, and it has grieved me to the core to see their graceless, harsh influence seep into key advocacy spaces. 

For those who do not know, abortion abolitionists propose a legal regime wherein the woman who procures an abortion is criminalized, treating her as a murderer, without meaningfully distinguishing between the woman and the abortionist who performs the procedure. This has no chance of passing anywhere, even in conservative states with strong pro-life laws on the books. 

This woman states, actively, that she “aborted” her third child, but then later on claims that it’s the abortionist who “performs the procedure.” So, by her own framing of the issue early on, she admits that women are the ones committing abortion.

Nevertheless, she has a bone to pick with the pro-life people who, unlike her, want to end abortion..

Case in point, I recently attended a pro-life gathering in which a panel of speakers referred to women who choose abortion as “murderers who deserve to be criminalized,” and insisted they were not “the other victim.”

Sitting in the audience was a post-abortive woman who is trying to find her place in the pro-life movement, while still dealing with years of regret, shame, and trauma from her own abortion decision some decades ago. As she listened to their condemnations, coming from pro-life speakers she’d once admired, she started having a panic attack and had to remove herself from the room, struggling to breathe. Their words echoed in her head days later.

Only in the longhouse does someone’s panic attack usurp logic and reason. Robinson claims that abortion abolition rhetoric hardens women’s hearts, but the pro-life movement has long been run through by feminists who wanted to play nice, while women grew increasingly pro-abortion. Sometimes the hard sell is necessary, even if someone’s guilty conscience causes a panic attack.

Someone asked me, “But Victoria, don’t you think if you were faced with being criminalized, you would have made a different choice [not to abort]?” 

I replied: “You’re asking the wrong question. The question you should be asking is, if your boyfriend had been the man he should have been and stepped up and faced his responsibilities, do you think you would have made a different choice?” 

The lack of accountability is palpable in these words. 

Abolitionists will insist, unfazed: “But they know exactly what they’re doing, Victoria. This is 2026. Women aren’t victims anymore. They’re just selfish, and they need to be held accountable for murdering their unborn children.” 

This is simply not true. The deception of the abortion industry remains pervasive, particularly with the advance of abortion drugs being sent through the mail.

Week after week, I regularly receive phone calls from distraught women who took abortion pills, ultimately delivering their intact babies. They scream into the phone about how abortion advocates deceived them: “They lied to me! They told me it would be clotting like a period. No one ever told me that I would see an actual baby, my baby!”

Robinson murdered her third child after already having two. She knew then exactly what she was doing. A PRC that my church works with, the lady there, told us that women are generally unphased by ultrasounds than advertised by Preborn, etc. They often want to know if they are too far along for abortion pills. Reminiscent of Office Space, it’s not that women don’t know that abortion kills a baby, it’s that they don’t care.

Let me stress that I believe abortion is, in fact, murder, and I want to see it ended in my lifetime. In that sense, I am an abolitionist as well. But it is particularly necessary in this post-Dobbs era that we continue to raise up an army of healed, post-abortive women and men to speak out and tell the truth. But why would they choose to come forward when they’re made to feel like criminals? How can we expect them to speak up if they fear more judgment and condemnation? 

When Jesus interacted with the adulterous woman in John 8, surrounded by those ready to stone her, He approached them and asked for the first one without sin to throw the first stone. No one came forward, as no one was qualified. In the same way, this is what many abolitionists are doing with their words. While we all want to see abortion abolished, on that we can agree, we do not agree on how to get there. All legal considerations aside, their rhetorical approach does not reflect the heart of Christ, and I will never support it. 

It’s always amazing how feminists love the textual variance inserted into John’s gospel, ultimately to pit the Bible against itself because accountability is their natural enemy.

The abolitionists should stay the course. Abortion is legal in all 50 states despite the Dobbs decision. And Christian Post would do well to not countersignal Christians working who want to abolish abolition rather than milk it for nonprofit dollars.