Our House representative for my district, Carlie Kotyza-Witthuhn, is determined that Minnesota be a beacon for abortion. Two bills have been introduced (one has passed the House) in our state Legislature toward that end. The one that passed the House, the Protect Reproductive Options Act (HF1) has absolutely no restrictions on the killing of unborn children’s lives. Abortion in Minnesota will soon be allowed at any time of pregnancy, through any procedure, including the partial birth method, and for any reason, and Medical Assistance cannot be denied to those women who want one.

I spoke with a DFL legislator a while ago who is pro-choice, but doesn’t agree that abortions should be performed up to the ninth month, only up to viability. They shouldn’t be performed at all, but at least there are some politicians who still have a conscience and recognize it’s actual children we’re dealing with.

What is it about abortion that makes Rep. Kotyza-Witthuhn ignore everything about the procedure itself and care only that the pregnant woman is allowed to do whatever she wants with the human life within her? Watching her make the case for her bill I noticed two sad characteristics: she’s deaf and she’s too confident. Deaf to the appeals of those who attempted to add amendments to the bill that would add some “guardrails” at the very least. And she was too confident that the bill would pass. That tells me that there are many other women who think like her and who support such a barbaric practice and would that it continue, free and unabated.

There is a confidence and a conviction particularly in women that is ugly. We think we are taking a bold stand for something. We have confidence that we are making ourselves to be whatever we want to be. In reality, we are killing the very beautiful thing we were meant to be and to do. We are meant to help bring human life into the world; to make things beautiful; to give a backbone and strength to our men, and a host of other womanly duties. When we kill who we really are on the inside by making public our hatred of how we’re made, we have become all that is grotesque.

Female support for abortion is ugly. It twists the insides of the very person who was meant to bring forth life, and makes that person a hideous distortion. If women like Carlie Kotyza-Witthuhn were to turn around in their thinking and embrace our true womanly attributes, and not seek to destroy them, it would be an encouragement to our daughters and to the true, the good, and the beautiful.