Horrific NPR abortion audio shows Americans how terrible procedure and NPR truly are

National Public Radio made a shocking editorial decision this week when it chose to broadcast the audio of a woman getting an abortion. The audio reveals how terrible the procedure is.

Kristan Hawkins is president of Students for Life of America, with more than 1,250 groups on college, university, and high school campuses in all 50 states. Follow her @KristanHawkins or subscribe to her podcast, "Explicitly Pro-Life."

Far from normalizing the end of innocent life, the sounds of death, the tears of a mother saying she can’t do this, and the relentless voice of a woman whose business is death saying, "Yes, you can," combine in a moment in which the listener knows something terribly permanent took place. And a mother now has a recording, broadcast nationwide, of the last moments of her child’s life. How incredibly painful and uniquely terrible. 

This isn’t a "shout your abortion" story; it’s a callous abuse of pain and a tone-deaf misuse of an abortion that has clearly backfired as Americans around the country react in shock. But what the NPR broadcast unwittingly shows is a manipulative abortion team determined to keep a woman in place until a baby has died.