By John Ensor for LIFENEWS.COM
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey is running a massive taxpayer-funded PR campaign to warn citizens about the dangers of Pregnancy Help Medical Clinics (PHMC). Why? Because, Healy charged, the people who run these PHMC have “a prolife and religious bias.”
Approximately half the country has a pro-life bias. A 2023 Gallup poll says that 82% of Americans identify as religious or spiritual. I appeal to Governor Healy and those in leadership nationwide, please, don’t get on the wrong side of yet another 80/20 issue. Pregnancy Help Clinics are good for America, especially for those who defend legal abortion as good for women.
It’s true, a clear and present pro-life and religious bias is at work in a PHMC. For the record, this is the same bias that prompted Rev. John Barlett (1784–1849) to found Mass General Hospital, one of the oldest hospitals in America today. He was a pro-life Christian who wanted to save lives in the name of Jesus. Dangerous? Really? Even now, there are doctors, nurses and other medical professionals working at Mass General who are motivated by a love of life and a Christian worldview. Should we warn people to stay away?
Truth is, almost all the hospitals and clinics in the world today, especially those that are over 100 years old, were started by people with a pro-life and religious bias. The world has been well served by them. Pro-life and religious bias drove the medical missionary, Dr. Alexander Pearson, to leave the comforts of home and introduce the smallpox vaccine to China in 1805. By 1901, medical missionaries in China were operating 128 hospitals and 245 dispensaries. They recorded 1,674,571 people treated out of the same bias of Christian care that motivates people to set up Pregnancy Help Medical Clinics, to provide testing, ultrasound verification of pregnancy and practical support.
