Indiana Fever players headline abortion fundraiser

Members of the Indiana Fever women's basketball team headlined a recent abortion fundraiser, alongside women who founded an organization claiming to improve maternal mortality outcomes.

Key Takeaways:

• Kelsey Mitchell and Brianna Turner recently headlined the “Playing For Our Lives” abortion fundraiser in Carmel.

• Also present at the fundraiser were the co-founders of Navigate Maternity, a non-profit organization with the goal of improving health care during pregnancy, particularly for Black women.

• The event was hosted by the Indiana Reproductive Freedom PAC, a pro-abortion group.

The Details:

Mitchell and Turner spoke to about 200 attendees at the Ritz Carlton in Carmel, where they discussed “the rapid decline of reproductive freedom.” During the fundraiser, the pair claimed women’s rights are at risk without being able to access abortion.

“We’re a league for women, we play across different states,” Turner said. “And our rights change depending on the states we’re in.”

In reality, the only rights at risk are those of preborn children, who are human beings robbed of their right to life. The ability for women to obtain health care is not in danger because some states protect preborn children from abortion.

With Turner and Mitchell were Navigate Maternity founder and CEO Ariana McGee and chief medical officer Dr. Elicia Harris. McGee previously went viral for claiming it is more dangerous to give birth now than it was in the 1990s. Though McGee has not openly spoken about supporting abortion — and Navigate Maternity purportedly focuses on improving pregnancy outcomes only — by appearing at this event, it appears that she believes killing preborn human beings is a key part of women’s health care.

It is not medically necessary to directly and intentionally kill a preborn child.

Zoom Out:

“It’s really just a fringe minority of people who staunchly oppose abortion,” Liane Groth Hulka, the founder of Indiana Reproductive Freedom PAC, told Mirror Indy. “But through gerrymandering, they control the vast majority of seats in the legislature.”

Yet polling has found that feelings on abortion are not as clear-cut as abortion activists would like voters to believe. Young adults in particular are increasingly adopting pro-life views, and overall, support for unlimited abortion under any circumstances is falling.

Abortion advocates also blame abortion for poor maternal mortality outcomes, but abortion has not been shown to improve maternal health outcomes, nor do pro-life laws put women’s lives at risk.

The Bottom Line:

Abortion - the intentional taking of a preborn life - is not a right which women are entitled to. Women have the right to control what happens to their own bodies, but not that of another person’s, and women’s health does not rely upon the ability to end the life of an innocent human being.