Both the abortion rights lobby and the Right-to-Life establishment are quick to ignore a cause of abortions that does not fit their agendas. We speak of abortion caused by environmental pollution. Much of the media as well as the two entities mentioned would use the nice euphemism "miscarriage." Miscarriage is the natural death of a fetus. Abortion is when it is caused by a human act. Were we unknowing of the impact of environmental pollution on unborn life, in ignorance we could call it as miscarriage. Now that we know for a fact that environmental degradation destroys unborn life, it is an abortion, albeit an abortion the National Right-to-Life Committee seems not to care about.
We will address this is more detail later, but raise one example now. Today's New York Times carries a story about pollution from gas flaring. It reports that new research on gas flaring suggests that the practice poses a significant risk to the unborn.
The study was published this month the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. It found that pregnant women who lived near areas where flaring is common had 50 percent greater odds of giving birth prematurely than those who did not. These births occurred before 37 weeks of gestation, when incomplete development raises a baby’s chance of numerous disorders, even death.
Joe Biden's record on climate change and care for Creation stands in sharp contrast to Donald Trump. And Biden's positions are on the side of preventing these abortions undesired by the mother of the child yet suffered by her anyway.
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