December 9, 2023

As we near the holiday season and the end of the year, charitable giving increases as many wish to become more generous with both their money and their time. But some organizations that vie for our money have a sordid past, nefarious partnerships, or are themselves advocating for immoral practices.

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One name that often appears in connection with charitable giving is the Children’s Defense Fund, especially because people focus on children’s charities around the holiday. The name alone invokes images of people protecting children, advocating for them, and placing their welfare above all else. However, the reality is that the Children’s Defense Fund seems to pick and choose which children it will support and defend.

The Children’s Defense Fund proudly boasts on its website that it is “unleashing the joy in growing up.” But as the American Life League (“ALL”) points out, “This organization promotes abortion and contraception, even to children, and has had a relationship with Planned Parenthood for decades.” This means that millions of children have had, and will have, that joy snuffed out before they even reach birth.

The same Children’s Defense Fund website goes on to say, “We focus our advocacy on the whole child because we believe children don’t come in pieces.”

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This is incredibly ironic, as children in pieces is exactly what happens when an abortionist tears them apart during a dilation and evacuation abortion. To remove the baby, the abortionist not only crushes the baby’s skull but he rips off his arms and legs. As if this were not gruesome enough, he must make sure that he extracted all the baby’s body parts from the mother, which requires him to re-assemble the pieces like a macabre jigsaw puzzle.

Image: Pregnant woman and her older child (edited) by senivpetro.

Any group that could advocate for abortion and claim that it works to protect the well-being of children and “unleash joy” is lying to itself and to the public.

We see further evidence of CDF’s support for abortion in the fact that its historian-in-residence, Dr. Courtney Pace, founded and chairs the Clergy Board for Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi.

Additionally, in an August 2022 statement decrying the Dobbs decision, Dr. Starsky Wilson, president and CEO of Children’s Defense Fund, wrote:

Since the potential for the decision was made public, we have leaned into discussions around it; assessing its implications for America’s children and youth, and the work that we do. The consensus of our discussions made it clear that the time has come for Children’s Defense Fund to take a public position as the impact on birthing people and the need for movement solidarity calls for such. We stand with clarity on a matter so critical to the health and well-being of children and youth.

Reproductive justice is a human right.