June 20, 2025
Miscarriage Doesn’t Kill A Child – And That Matters
The following is an excerpt from The Kristan Hawkins Show. Subscribe to The Kristan Hawkins Show HERE and opt-in to Kristan’s daily text update by texting “KRISTAN” to 53445 so you never miss breaking pro-life news!
Pro-abortion activists are trying to make a sneaky legislative change to protect abortion, and we’re blowing the whistle.
Legislative Sleight of Hand
A pro-abortion representative in Maine named Annie Graham has introduced a bill that would stop requiring healthcare providers to report miscarriages they attend to before 20 weeks’ gestation. The so-called “Act to Eliminate Miscarriage Reporting Requirements,” or LD94, would change current law, which does require providers to report miscarriages.
Why would someone possibly want hospitals to stop reporting data on babies who died in the first half of pregnancy?
Well, the answer MIGHT be found in her very pro-abortion agenda. And the fact that laws in Maine are EXTREMELY pro-abortion.
In 2022 when running for office, Annie Graham said that protecting abortion in Maine was one of her top three priorities.
And what does that have to do with miscarriage? Maybe more than you think.
First it’s important to understand that there’s a long-standing effort among abortion activists to blur the lines between miscarriage and abortion.
There are a couple reasons for this.
One, because in some cases they can get away with using “miscarriage care” as a cover for clandestine abortions where they’re illegal. We’ll talk more about that in a minute.
And two, abortion activists hate the way preborn children are humanized in the medical setting when they are miscarried.
For instance, we read that Maine law a minute ago that requires information for a quote “certificate of fetal death.”
Abortion advocates DO NOT LIKE things like death certificates for miscarried or stillborn babies because these are official acknowledgements that the child in the womb is a member of the human family and treats them in a similar way to humans who die later in life.
If laws and medical practice routinely treat MISCARRIED babies like human beings, it makes it harder for abortion activists so carry on their delusional and anti-scientific claims that preborn children are “blobs of tissue,” “products of conception,” “clumps of cells,” or whatever their dehumanizing term du jour is.
They do not like any language or legal acknowledgement that the child in the womb is a human being.
In fact, the Guttmacher Institute all the way back in 1999 warned that pro-life language that HUMANIZED the preborn child would lead to the demise of Roe v. Wade.
Guttmacher complained:
In preparation for a day in the not-distant future when there may be a president and U.S. Supreme Court majority more sympathetic to their cause, antiabortion leaders are stepping up their historic campaign to elevate the status of the fetus to that of a child, both in the public’s mind and as a matter of law. The purpose of “personifying” the fetus, of course, is to set up an inevitable conflict, conceptually and legally, between a woman’s right to choose abortion, as defined by the court in Roe v. Wade, and a fetus’s “right to life.”
Guttmacher wanted greater pushback against the way pro-lifers humanized babies with terms like:
-”Unborn child” instead of “fetus”
-The Unborn Victims of Violence Act
-The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban
-Calling late-term abortion “infanticide”
Guttmacher complained all those years ago that pro-abortion activists did not appreciate the seriousness of the situation.
Here we are 25 years later with Roe v. Wade in the ash heap of history, but still fighting the same battles to protect children in the womb and convince our culture that they are indeed human.
Maine law currently requires healthcare providers to report all abortions and miscarriages to the state Department of Health and Human Services. It reads in part:
A report of each miscarriage must be made by the health care professional in attendance at or after the occurrence of the miscarriage to the Department of Health and Human Services on forms prescribed by the department. These report forms must contain all of the applicable information required on the certificate of fetal death in current use.
That’s a good law. Not reporting miscarriages before 20 weeks’ gestation would be another step toward convincing people the child in the womb doesn’t matter.
But there’s something else going on, too.
For a long time, the abortion industry has been engaged in what it calls “Miscarriage management.”
Back in 2014, Texas abortionist Lester Minto could no longer legally commit abortions because his facility did not meet new requirements.
Texas had passed a law requiring abortion facilities to meet the standards of ambulatory surgical centers. For instance, they needed wide hallways that could accommodate a stretcher to take women to the hospital after botched abortions.
Minto told Al Jazeera that even though he was no longer legally allowed to commit abortions at his clinic, he still stayed busy doing quote “miscarriage management.”
The New Republic described “miscarriage management” as the “next front in the abortion wars.” It described Minto’s rebrand from abortion to miscarriage management as follows:
Undaunted, Minto reinvented himself as a “miscarriage management” consultant. When patients come to his clinic they get an ultrasound to find out how far along they are and counseling. He tells them that he can’t perform abortions anymore, but that there are other options. While Minto can’t perform an abortion, if you show up at his office bleeding from a miscarriage, he can help you out, no questions asked…
Between Minto’s patients and women who act on their own, H.B. 2 may not have eliminated abortions in the Valley. It may simply have changed the tools and processes…
The Al Jazeera interview with Minto featured a client of his at his clinic who made it clear that she was being seen for an abortion, not a miscarriage.
The abortion industry was brazen in admitting that “miscarriage management” really had nothing to do with miscarriages.
In 2022, Planned Parenthood reported providing 3,604 instances of “miscarriage care.” Not surprisingly, they fail to define what this means.
And even back in 2014, “miscarriage management” was old news as a way around pro-life laws. The New Republic goes on to say:
“Miscarriage management” is nothing new, according to Carole Joffe,a professor at the Bixby Center for Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco and an expert on abortion history. Since up to 20 percent of all confirmed pregnancies end in spontaneous miscarriage, and the treatment for an incomplete miscarriage closely resembles the completion of an induced abortion, clinicians have long used the treatment of miscarriage as a way around abortion restrictions.
Joffe makes a key admission there. She notes that the PROCEDURE of D&C may be seen in both miscarriage care and in the commission of abortion.
Additionally, the drug misoprostol can be used to induce an abortion OR to treat a miscarriage.
So the PROCEDURE for abortion and miscarriage treatment might be the same, but the key difference is whether or not a child is intentionally killed in the process.
In elective abortion, the drug or procedure DIRECTLY AND INTENTIONALLY KILLS A CHILD.
In the treatment of miscarriage, THE CHILD HAS DIED UNINTENTIONALLY PRIOR TO THE PROCEDURE BEGINNING.
This is a life-and-death difference that cannot be washed away by getting rid of reporting laws, ceasing to issue fetal death certificates, or referring to elective abortion as “miscarriage management.”
The Pro-Life Generation will not stand by and watch the personhood of children in the womb erased by activist legislators.
Kristan Hawkins is the President of Students for Life of America and Students for Life Action. Subscribe to The Kristan Hawkins Show HERE.
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