What Katy Perry’s pregnancy announcement tells us about babies in the womb

The entertainment world is abuzz with Katy Perry’s recent pregnancy announcement, made as a surprise ending to her music video for her new single, Never Worn White. Like other celebrity reveals, her announcement is garnering a lot of attention. 

After months of wearing strategically-tailored or loose-fitting outfits and carrying oversized purses in public, Perry showed off her baby belly. While donning a long, white, somewhat bridal gown in theme with the video, she cradles her belly towards the end of the music video, and then in the last shot, she leaves no doubt by posing in a transparent, maternity photoshoot-style drape.

Regardless of a woman’s stance on abortion, it seems maternity photos and pregnancy reveals are a beloved tradition when a woman experiences a “wanted” pregnancy. This need to share the joy and excitement of bringing a new life into the world betrays a reality that even vocally pro-abortion celebrities cannot deny or ignore: every preborn baby is a human being. 

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Katy Perry’s grandmother passed away shortly after her reveal, and Perry said she hoped that her preborn baby somehow would be afforded a mystical connection with her grandmother. “I don’t know when a soul enters a new vehicle but if there is an afterlife where there’s a waiting room of the coming and going my mind wonders if the soul that is waiting to come into my world is getting a kiss on the forehead from my sweet Grandma that departed this earth yesterday,” read her Instagram post. 

The truth is that every mother knows, on some level, that she is carrying a human being within her body from the first moment she finds out she is pregnant, well before it’s as obvious as feeling fluttery kicks and seeing tiny fingers and little feet on an ultrasound.

Every mother also knows, on some level, that although she has control over her body, it doesn’t just belong to her when she’s pregnant, and that a distinct human being is living in her womb. Perry, who last year signed a petition protesting pro-life laws that claimed “no one is free unless they control their own body,” and who, in 2016, donated $10,000 to abortion giant Planned Parenthood, told an Australian talk show that she stopped drinking and smoking for her preborn baby. 

Katy Perry is not the only celebrity to revel in a joyful, splashy pregnancy reveal. Beyoncé had the most-liked photo of 2017 when she post her reveal on Instagram through an original photoshoot, where she was veiled and dressed in blue silk lingerie, cradling her bump and posed on a bed of flowers. While hosting Saturday Night Live in April of 2018, cameras suddenly panned down on singer Cardi B during the second half of her musical number to reveal her baby bump. Some mothers have announced before their baby bumps became apparent. Chrissy Teigen announced her first pregnancy after fertility struggles with a touching and casual photo of her before her pregnancy was evident. 

For these celebrities, the profound joy and connection with the humanity of their preborn babies — celebrated by their reveals for all the world to see — proves that the dehumanization of the preborn for the sake of their pro-abortion beliefs is a lie.

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