Recently, Colorado introduced a trio of radical new pro-abortion bills that, if passed, would make it the most hostile state for preborn life in the Union. One of the bills, named “Prohibiting Deceptive Practices at Anti-Abortion Centers,” takes direct aim at pregnancy resource centers, which have been serving women across the country for decades with free pregnancy tests, prenatal care, parenting classes, baby clothes, diapers, and more. Referring to these centers as “anti- abortion” is an attempt to paint them as shadowy fronts for nefarious political action. Left unaddressed in this and every politically motivated attack on pregnancy resource centers is where women facing a crisis pregnancy can go to find care and help. According to a recent survey of Planned Parenthood clinics across the U.S., only 5% offered services that could be called “prenatal care.” Calling pregnancy resource centers “anti-abortion centers” is a form of propaganda that attempts to portray abortion as normative and having a baby as an unthinkable option. In his book Biblical Critical Theory, Christopher Watkin argues that the term “nonviolence” is a misnomer within a Christian worldview. To use this term is to suggest that violence is a fundamental part of the world, the natural state of things. Within the biblical account of creation, Watkin writes, “[V]iolence is the stubborn imposter, the derivative reality whose days are numbered in God’s world. Peace, for the Christian, is not nonviolence; violence is nonpeace.”
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