February 16, 2026
The abortion industry loves to paint itself as a compassionate care provider for women and children. Of course, that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Data abounds on the abortion industry’s failure to meet even basic standards of care. For proof, one needs to look no further than the New York Times’ stunning expose on Planned Parenthood from last year, which described a “Planned Parenthood in crisis” — rushed ten-minute appointments, failures to log STD tests, misplaced IUDs, staff’s inability to even take blood pressure, and more. And that’s not even mentioning the abortion industry’s horrific treatment of both preborn babies and women.
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Yet many well-intentioned people consider themselves “pro-choice” because they’ve fallen for Planned Parenthood’s greatest lie — that supporting women means supporting abortion, too.
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That’s exactly where Students for Life Action’s Mary Kate Horlander fell. In a Sunday op-ed for Townhall, she describes her story, writing:
During college, I went from staunchly pro-life to apathetic about abortion. This was driven by my desire to be accepted… as a “good person” by supporting women in need. In returning to pro-life views, I’ve generally tried to see goodwill in those on the “pro-choice” side, since, according to them, they really want to help women, too.
However, I’ve increasingly seen how “pro-choice” does not mean supporting women. These better-named pro-abortion activists capitalize on tragedy and use women as pawns in a game aimed toward Big Abortion’s pocketbook and the deaths of millions of preborn children.
Horlander concludes,
To those who genuinely want to help women: Don’t let the abortion lobbyists trick you. They will use, abuse, and lose women to get more abortions. You may care about women. But they don’t.