Gem State Wire

Catholic Vote President Brian Burch said Justice Samuel Alito’s questioning of why laws regarding abortion refer to a women’s pregnancy as an ‘unborn child’ is an example “where leftists admit to the truth they try to deny.”

"These days it is easy for some to lose hope that enough Americans will wake up to the evil that is abortion, but regularly we are shown examples where leftists admit to the truth they try to deny,” Burch told the Gem State Wire. “Justice Alito is correct, those who promote abortion using the phrase 'unborn child' does say something."

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito asked Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar about the phrasing used by a statute that the federal government has used to argue that emergency room doctors can perform in a state that bans them. The statue uses the phrase “unborn child” when referring to a mother’s pregnancy. 

The question came during oral arguments this week in the Moyle v. United States case, in which the Biden administration has challenged Idaho’s Defense of Life Act, which prohibits abortion except when necessary to save the life of the mother and in cases of rape or incest. Shortly after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the Department of Justice sued the state under the premise that the law “prevents emergency room doctors from providing abortions in certain circumstances required under the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act’s (EMTALA) definition of emergency 'stabilizing care,'” the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) reported.

Justice Alito noted the federal act EMTALA defines emergency medical condition[s] as those that put “the health of the woman or her unborn child in serious jeopardy.” He said it seems to mean that the hospital must “try to eliminate any immediate threat to the child.” Alito added, “performing an abortion is antithetical to that duty.” 

“Have you seen abortion statutes that use the phrase unborn child?” Alito asked. “Doesn’t that tell us something?”

Madison, Wisconsin-based Catholic Vote is an advocacy organization that wants to “inspire every Catholic in America to live out the truths of our faith in public life,” according to the group’s website. Founded in 2008, its president is Brian Burch.