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We're wrapping up our year so far series as we discuss Demi Lovato’s pro-abortion anthem which she released one year after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe V. Wade. We will be looking at some of the complaints raised in the lyrics of her song, so stick with us as we tackle the extremely divisive topic of social justice and the ethics of murdering your own baby. You’ve been warned.
“Blank forbid, I wanna *blank* whatever the *expletive* I wanna. Blank forbid, I wanna *expletive* whoever the *expletive* I want and if he *experiences an emission*, I guess I gotta be a mother”
Poetry, right? These are the opening lines from Demi Lovato’s latest song entitled “SWINE.” From these hard hitting, in your face lyrics, the anger and aggression only amplify as Lovato expresses what she believes to be the voice of the oppressed women in the United States who will now all be forced to carry their unwanted pregnancies to delivery, even at the risk of their own lives. In the next line, she states this clearly with:
“No, it's okay, it's better this way, I'm only a carbon copy Even if I'm dying, they'll still try to stop me Do we even hear ourselves?”
I don’t know, Demi. Do we?
Let's start with that first common rebuttal known as the “life of the mother” argument. I’m going to cite an article from Eternal Perspective Ministries where they have already addressed many of these concerns.
Now, before you shut out opposing perspectives because they have a Christian sounding name, remember that if you are pro-choice, you’re supposed to be the side with science and reasoning backing you up, right? So, there shouldn’t be anything to be afraid of in listening to arguments from the other side. In response to the question of what is necessary if the mother’s life is in danger due to pregnancy:
“While he was United States Surgeon General, Dr. C. Everett Koop stated publicly that in his thirty-eight years as a pediatric surgeon, he was never aware of a single situation in which a preborn child’s life had to be taken in order to save the life of the mother. He said the use of this argument to justify abortion in general was a “smoke screen.”
Due to significant medical advances, the danger of pregnancy to the mother has declined considerably since 1967. Yet even at that time Dr. Alan Guttmacher of Planned Parenthood acknowledged, “Today it is possible for almost any patient to be brought through pregnancy alive, unless she suffers from a fatal illness such as cancer or leukemia, and, if so, abortion would be unlikely to prolong, much less save, life.” Dr. Landrum Shettles says that less than 1 percent of all abortions are performed to save the mother’s life.”
Now, as far as a credible argument, that is the best that Lovato is able to present in her 2 minute and 46 second song. In her second verse, however, Demi attempts to present a comparison case that in matters of personal preference, we should have the liberty to choose what to do in our own lives. She makes this argument by telling her listeners:
“Picture your faith, imagine your God and even your Holy Bible Is suddenly banned, do you understand? Now, doesn't that sound entitled? It's your book, but it's my survival”
Well, that settles it doesn’t it? If our faith were being attacked and the government was trying to strip us of what we hold most sacred, we would be understandably upset. Now, how much more would our disturbance be justified if they weren’t just trying to take away our subjective beliefs and values, but our very lives? She goes on to describe that it’s not just the risk that pregnancy poses to the life of the mother during pregnancy and birth but, in her own words:
“We gotta grow 'em, we gotta raise 'em, we gotta feed, and bathe 'em And if you won't, they call you a witch to burn at the stake in Salem”
Now, I don’t know which of the 6 writers are responsible for the lyrics of the second verse but they are quite revelatory. The writers compare the right to ending the life of your unborn child to the freedom of religion. In fact, throughout the music video, Lovato is depicted as a woman being tried as a witch by a group of old, angry-looking white guys. Oppressive religious zealots, subjugating women and charging them with the crime of witchcraft if they get out of line. If nothing else, I can at least appreciate the subtlety. What this comparison truly reveals, though, is how much of a religion the pro-choice movement has become, in itself.
The closest comparison they could think to draw for how they feel when their so-called “right to choose” is being infringed is to hold it up next to our right to religious beliefs and practices? But, that carries with it all the imported baggage of what they believe about faith and religion; that it is blind, reductive, oppressive, and everything else they say. These are, of course, not my definitions but theirs. They say that religion is blind faith and dismisses logic and reasoning and then hold up the right to abortion as equal to that, to which I actually agree. As we showed earlier, the pro-abortion arguments are built and predicated on fallacies and anti-science that have been debunked for decades, and specifically in the case of risk and danger to the mother, since 1967 by the Chairman of the Medical Committee of the International Planned Parenthood Federation. And yet, even though it is verifiably untrue and has been for over 50 years, this same lie has been regurgitated time and time again as one of the pillars of defense for the act of a mother hiring doctors to end the life of her own child inside of her. This, however, is just one of the pillars and we don’t have time today to address all of the main pro-choice arguments, but guess what, that’s exactly what we’re going to be talking about all through the month of September.
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