Let's not lie to women.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

A bizarre talking point circulating in the wake of the Supreme Court leak in the Dobbs case

is that if Roe v. Wade is overturned, women who suffer miscarriages could be criminally charged

in states that restrict abortion.

The rumor apparently stems from a handful of stories involving women who've been charged

for the death of their pre-born babies after they've used drugs or caused a car accident by driving under the influence.

These stories have nothing, morally or medically, in common with miscarriage, which is natural,

although always tragic. Abortions are needless, deliberate, violent, and dangerous for babies

and for women. Removing the body of a baby who's died from his

mother's womb is nothing like invading a healthy womb to dismember and kill a baby. Propagating the

miscarriage myth is nothing less than a ruthless political strategy, aimed at keeping women

terrified and distracted from the real issues at stake in abortion law. Women deserve better than

to be lied to, and Christians can tell the

truth loud and clear. I'm John Stone Street.