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Chrissy Teigen mistakenly thinks she aborted her son. Now she's promoting abortion in Idaho.
Model and media personality Chrissy Teigen, who mistakenly claims she aborted her baby boy, will appear at a pro-abortion rally in Idaho in support of the upcoming vote on Proposition 1.
Idaho's Proposition 1 will create a "right" to abortion in the currently pro-life state.
Teigen is set to speak at a pro-abortion rally in Boise this week in support of Proposition 1.
She has repeatedly claimed she underwent a medically necessary abortion, when in fact doctors desperately tried to save both her life and that of her baby.
The Idaho Capital Sun reported that Teigen will appear at a pro-abortion rally in support of Proposition 1, where she will speak to mothers and urge voters to support the pro-abortion initiative.
Teigen's appearance was also promoted by Idahoans United for Women and Families on social media, echoing claims that Teigen had a medically necessary abortion.
"In 2020, Chrissy lost a deeply wanted pregnancy to a serious complication and needed medically necessary abortion care to protect her health," the group claimed (emphasis added). "Here in Idaho, moms facing that same heartbreak have been sent out of state for care. On Wednesday, Oct. 28, Chrissy, who spent her teen years in Idaho Falls, will meet with Idaho mothers who’ve lived this, then rally with all of us for YES on Prop 1."
But originally, Teigen didn't describe the loss of her baby boy as an abortion, and has only in recent years begun to call her experience a 'medically-necessary abortion.' Her original description of the medical emergency does not fit the definition of abortion.
An abortion is the intentional, targeted killing of a preborn child; the goal is to bring about the death of the baby. In Teigen's case, her son died, but doctors tried valiantly to save him through various medical interventions.
Teigen had originally been placed on bed rest due to issues with the placenta, and eventually, was admitted to the hospital due to bleeding. Her son Jack remained healthy at first. But eventually, there were catastrophic complications, and Jack died — and by Teigen's own admission, doctors did everything they could to save him.
“We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before,” she wrote. “We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn’t enough” (emphases added).
Over two years later, and only after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade, Teigen began to describe the experience was an abortion, saying her husband — singer John Legend — was the one who made her see it that way.
“I was talking about it from a place of, ‘I feel so bad for … anyone who’s ever had to go through that, and they’re not able to make a choice of their own body,’ and he was like, ‘Well, you had an abortion,’” she said. “I was like, what? I had no idea … I just assumed that I had miscarried.”
Legend has claimed "she was miscarrying, and bleeding out, and all these things were happening" and that "Her life was in danger," while also claiming she had an abortion that pro-life laws would not allow.
This is false, and a reading of Idaho's own Defense of Life Act (and even its allowances for actual induced abortion) makes clear that abortion is considered an act with the intent of bringing about the death of a preborn child.
Jack experienced a tragic natural death, which doctors tried to prevent. It is unclear if he was delivered early in an effort to save Teigen's life, but the goal was absolutely not to ensure Jack died.
No one — not Teigen, Legend, or their doctors — intentionally sought to cause Jack's death. His death was unable to be prevented, despite medical interventions to save his life and to protect Teigen's.
A woman in Idaho had a similar experience which she recently wrote about. And like Jack, her daughter did not survive. However, she correctly pointed out that she did not have an abortion, and abortion was not necessary to save her life.
Valerie Abraham had a placental abruption at 18 weeks, and said her doctors treated both her and her daughter as individual patients. This, she explained, was the highest standard of medical care, and gave both her and her daughter dignity (emphases added):
I knew full-well that if the bleeding couldn’t be controlled, they were prepared to escalate the interventions, but they didn’t jump to a “nuclear” option right away. They followed ACOG guidelines on treatment, and stabilized me while keeping me informed on my baby’s prognosis in a rapidly developing situation.
After my body went into pre-term labor, they jumped in with more life-saving care for me to stop the hemorrhage. I received the same medications abortion advocates claim women won’t have access to in abortion-ban states.
I delivered a tiny baby girl who reached out her delicate fingers and grabbed my husband’s hand and opened her mouth. She lived for 43 minutes after birth. We held her, prayed with her, and treasured every minute of her brief life.
We named her Amal after a great aunt, and we filled out her birth certificate and death certificate on the same day.
Amal died with dignity instead of trauma because of Idaho’s current laws. I was given life-saving, and health-saving care because of Idaho’s current laws.
As Abraham pointed out, there is nothing in Idaho's current laws, which protect most preborn children from abortion, that prevents women from receiving life-saving medical care.
And while the baby may not survive the interventions needed to save a mother's life, such as an early delivery, the goal is not to cause the child's death, differentiating these treatments from abortion.
Women deserve better than fear-laden propaganda promoted in an effort to scare them into supporting death for their own children.
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·Chrissy Teigen mistakenly thinks she aborted her son. Now she's promoting abortion in Idaho.
Model and media personality Chrissy Teigen, who mistakenly claims she aborted her baby boy, will appear at a pro-abortion rally in Idaho in support of the upcoming vote on Proposition 1.
Idaho's Proposition 1 will create a "right" to abortion in the currently pro-life state.
Teigen is set to speak at a pro-abortion rally in Boise this week in support of Proposition 1.
She has repeatedly claimed she underwent a medically necessary abortion, when in fact doctors desperately tried to save both her life and that of her baby.
The Idaho Capital Sun reported that Teigen will appear at a pro-abortion rally in support of Proposition 1, where she will speak to mothers and urge voters to support the pro-abortion initiative.
Teigen's appearance was also promoted by Idahoans United for Women and Families on social media, echoing claims that Teigen had a medically necessary abortion.
"In 2020, Chrissy lost a deeply wanted pregnancy to a serious complication and needed medically necessary abortion care to protect her health," the group claimed (emphasis added). "Here in Idaho, moms facing that same heartbreak have been sent out of state for care. On Wednesday, Oct. 28, Chrissy, who spent her teen years in Idaho Falls, will meet with Idaho mothers who’ve lived this, then rally with all of us for YES on Prop 1."
But originally, Teigen didn't describe the loss of her baby boy as an abortion, and has only in recent years begun to call her experience a 'medically-necessary abortion.' Her original description of the medical emergency does not fit the definition of abortion.
An abortion is the intentional, targeted killing of a preborn child; the goal is to bring about the death of the baby. In Teigen's case, her son died, but doctors tried valiantly to save him through various medical interventions.
Teigen had originally been placed on bed rest due to issues with the placenta, and eventually, was admitted to the hospital due to bleeding. Her son Jack remained healthy at first. But eventually, there were catastrophic complications, and Jack died — and by Teigen's own admission, doctors did everything they could to save him.
“We are shocked and in the kind of deep pain you only hear about, the kind of pain we’ve never felt before,” she wrote. “We were never able to stop the bleeding and give our baby the fluids he needed, despite bags and bags of blood transfusions. It just wasn’t enough” (emphases added).
Over two years later, and only after the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturned Roe v. Wade, Teigen began to describe the experience was an abortion, saying her husband — singer John Legend — was the one who made her see it that way.
“I was talking about it from a place of, ‘I feel so bad for … anyone who’s ever had to go through that, and they’re not able to make a choice of their own body,’ and he was like, ‘Well, you had an abortion,’” she said. “I was like, what? I had no idea … I just assumed that I had miscarried.”
Legend has claimed "she was miscarrying, and bleeding out, and all these things were happening" and that "Her life was in danger," while also claiming she had an abortion that pro-life laws would not allow.
This is false, and a reading of Idaho's own Defense of Life Act (and even its allowances for actual induced abortion) makes clear that abortion is considered an act with the intent of bringing about the death of a preborn child.
Jack experienced a tragic natural death, which doctors tried to prevent. It is unclear if he was delivered early in an effort to save Teigen's life, but the goal was absolutely not to ensure Jack died.
No one — not Teigen, Legend, or their doctors — intentionally sought to cause Jack's death. His death was unable to be prevented, despite medical interventions to save his life and to protect Teigen's.
A woman in Idaho had a similar experience which she recently wrote about. And like Jack, her daughter did not survive. However, she correctly pointed out that she did not have an abortion, and abortion was not necessary to save her life.
Valerie Abraham had a placental abruption at 18 weeks, and said her doctors treated both her and her daughter as individual patients. This, she explained, was the highest standard of medical care, and gave both her and her daughter dignity (emphases added):
I knew full-well that if the bleeding couldn’t be controlled, they were prepared to escalate the interventions, but they didn’t jump to a “nuclear” option right away. They followed ACOG guidelines on treatment, and stabilized me while keeping me informed on my baby’s prognosis in a rapidly developing situation.
After my body went into pre-term labor, they jumped in with more life-saving care for me to stop the hemorrhage. I received the same medications abortion advocates claim women won’t have access to in abortion-ban states.
I delivered a tiny baby girl who reached out her delicate fingers and grabbed my husband’s hand and opened her mouth. She lived for 43 minutes after birth. We held her, prayed with her, and treasured every minute of her brief life.
We named her Amal after a great aunt, and we filled out her birth certificate and death certificate on the same day.
Amal died with dignity instead of trauma because of Idaho’s current laws. I was given life-saving, and health-saving care because of Idaho’s current laws.
As Abraham pointed out, there is nothing in Idaho's current laws, which protect most preborn children from abortion, that prevents women from receiving life-saving medical care.
And while the baby may not survive the interventions needed to save a mother's life, such as an early delivery, the goal is not to cause the child's death, differentiating these treatments from abortion.
Women deserve better than fear-laden propaganda promoted in an effort to scare them into supporting death for their own children.
Live Action News is pro-life news and commentary from a pro-life perspective.
Our work is possible because of our donors. Please consider giving to further our work of changing hearts and minds on issues of life and human dignity.
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