October 22, 2024
Students for Life Action (SFLAction) President Kristan Hawkins has written an op-ed outlining our organizations response to comments made by abortion activist Jessica Valenti in her new book titled Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win. An excerpt from the book, shared at Rolling Stone magazine, falsely implies that Hawkins said that women can’t get pregnant from rape.
SFLAction has issued a cease and desist to her publisher and has asked that Rolling Stone issue a correction; this is what Hawkins explains in her latest Federalist op-ed.
Abortion enthusiast Jessica Valenti “has spent the last two decades” writing in favor of all things abortion, which now includes a book titled Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truths We Use to Win. As this is Valenti’s eighth book, her diatribe continues, but her “facts” come from curated collages of abortion advocacy and, in my case, outright falsehood. Journalism it’s not.
In hawking her book, Valenti — like most abortion extremists — justifies all intentional abortion by highlighting the issue of rape. But in this book, she lies about not only my point of view but my record. Valenti cuts a sliver of a quote out of context to make a false and cruel accusation, taken from the context of a detailed discussion about how to understand sexual assault and abortion while skipping inconvenient facts that undercut the narrative.
This is a painful topic, but as the abortion lobby forces sexual assault survivors into the debate, it’s sadly often demanded of pro-life advocates who love them both — a hurting mother and a child in the womb.
READ THE FULL OP-ED HERE: In Her New Book, Abortion Activist Jessica Valenti Lies About Me And Rape Statistics