Notorious abortionist to Trevor Noah: ‘I’m pro-life’

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Last Monday, Daily Show Host Trevor Noah interviewed Willie J. Parker, a Mississippi abortionist and former Planned Parenthood medical director, on his Life’s Work memoir released April 4. During the interview, Parker called himself “pro-life” and compared his position to Abraham Lincoln’s fight against slavery. He also saw himself as fulfilling the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Instead of describing him as an abortionist, Noah introduced Parker as a “doctor, reproductive justice activist and author.” For his first question, Noah asked “what is it like” for a woman to get an abortion in the Deep South.

Besides “waiting periods” and “financial barriers,” Parker complained about the “stigma and the shame” surrounding abortion there. Women, he said, “are made to feel that they are doing something immoral by choosing their lives over the ambitions that other people have for them.” 

Except that abortion isn’t about women “choosing their lives” over others’ “ambitions.” It’s about destroying the ambitions of another person: the unborn baby.

While Parker admitted that a waiting period for women considering abortion “sounds good,” he urged that it didn’t fit with “reality.” Women “being forced to wait to indulge somebody else’s sensitivities,” he said, means “we don't trust women with their important decisions.”

When Noah brought up Parker’s “religious background”... Parker argued that he had “always been pro-life.”

“(B)ut what I mean by pro-life, pro-life of the woman,” he argued. According to Parker, he was pro-life and those who advocate for the lives of the unborn weren’t.