The Massachusetts Monster

Elizabeth Warren's despicable jihad against pro-life crisis pregnancy centers

And she can’t even bring herself to utter the word woman…

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There was a time when I looked upon Senator Elizabeth Warren (D, MA) as a figure of fun. She was the Wonder Bread Cherokee, the author of Pow Wow Chow, the Miss Gulch of the Democratic Party, the shrill-voiced, clue-free poster girl for po-mo progressivism and an all-around doofus.

Then came the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

It’s clear now that Elizabeth Warren is not merely a buffoon, not just a doofus. She’s a monster of evil. In recent weeks this malicious harpy has taken on a new cause: the destruction of every pro-life crisis pregnancy centers in America. That’s how she proposes to defend what the pro-abortion mob is pleased to call a woman’s right to choose.

Warren has actually said that such centers exist for the sole purpose of “torturing women.” This tells you something about her real attitude toward pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood: that they’re not really an acceptable choice. The unborn child is the enemy of the woman whose womb it occupies. The unborn child is an inconvenience at best, a soul-destroying invader at worst. Pregnancy is a disease. Abortion is healthcare. And to offer alternatives to abortion is to inflict torture on women.

If the pro-abortion movement really respected the principle of choice, it would have no objection to the existence of pro-life crisis pregnancy centers. The creation of such places has been the decades-long work of the pro-life movement. Countless women, precipitated into a life crisis by an unplanned pregnancy, have been helped thereby to choose life for their yet-to-be-born children.

Elizabeth Warren finds this intolerable. “In Massachusetts right now, those crisis pregnancy centers that are there to fool people who are looking for pregnancy termination help outnumber true abortion clinics by three to one,” she said recently. “We need to shut them down here in Massachusetts and we need to shut them down all around the country.” Get that? A woman—pregnant person in the Warren lexicon—who visits one of these pro-life crisis pregnancy centers and decides to forego an abortion is a dupe, a fool, a pathetic victim.

To remedy this allegedly horrific situation Warren and three Democratic co-sponsors have introduced in the Senate a prize specimen of iron-heel authoritarianism titled the Stop Anti-Abortion Disinformation Act, which embodies draconian penalties for pro-life crisis pregnancy centers that put out “disinformation” about abortion. Exactly what constitutes disinformation is not of course specified in the bill; that determination is to be left up to the bureaucrats of the Federal Trade Commission. Such are the workings of “our democracy” in Liz Warren’s America.

Warren’s lust for regulation stops short of abortion clinics, however. For decades, the pro-abortion movement has battled to prevent states from enacting more stringent rules for facilities that provide abortions. One of the beneficiaries of this campaign was Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia Ripper, whose abortion clinic was a chamber of horrors that operated for many years, unmolested by local, state and federal regulators.

There is of course a case to be made for oversight and regulation of all facilities and clinics that offer counseling and services for pregnant women—excuse me, Senator Warren, “pregnant persons.” If some pro-life clinic is found to be operating in violation of existing laws, it should of course be sanctioned or shut down. And the same goes—or should go—for abortion clinics.

But Elizabeth Warren’s not interested in that kind of oversight. What she wants is to harness the power of the federal government to suppress the dissemination of pro-life alternatives. And to hell with the First Amendment. As far as Warren is concerned, the actual constitutional right to free speech is far less important than the fictional constitutional right to abortion.

Would it be fair to characterize Warren’s despicable blather as typical of the pro-abortion movement? I say yes. After all, she’s not some Jane Sent Us head case. Elizabeth Warren is a United States senator. As such she has a platform from which to broadcast her hate speech far and wide, along with a measure of real political power. True, her atrocious Stop Anti-Abortion Disinformation Act will probably die in the current Senate. Who can doubt, though, that it would sail through a Senate with a filibuster-proof Democrat majority? Who can doubt that it would then be passed in a Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, and be signed into law by a Democrat president?

One of the most disturbing aspects of the pro-abortion movement is its celebration of abortion—its elevation of abortion to the status of a secular sacrament. It’s one thing to argue that in certain circumstances abortion is an unfortunate necessity. Pro-life though I am, I’m sympathetic to the force of that argument. Far be it from me to point a condemnary finger at some young, single woman of limited economic means who deals with an unplanned pregnancy by seeking an abortion. If such a young woman were to ask for my advice I’d only say: Follow your conscience, but remember that abortion is not your sole option.

But to tout abortion as a life-affirming decision strikes me as a cruel inversion of reality. I ask in all sincerity: Has a woman who terminated the life of her unborn child for the sake of a promotion to vice president of corporate communications really traded up? The occasional op-ed to that effect, written by some desperately cheery girlboss, seems intended more to convince its author than any reader. I suspect that in reality, women who’ve undergone an elective abortion either regard it as a cruel necessity or regret the decision to abort. Only a sociopath would leave an abortion clinic with a genuine smile on her face.

Elizabeth Warren is perhaps such a sociopath. That she advocates for the legality of abortion in all circumstances up to and even beyond the moment of birth is disturbing enough. That she goes on to reduce “choice,” that keyword of the pro-abortion movement, to a single option only is simply monstorous. And withal Warren can’t even bring herself to utter the word woman.