Jon Ossoff’s “Beloved Community” Does not Embody Unborn Infants
Jon Ossoff loves to talk about the “Beloved Community.” His social media is full of all the prerequisite liberal tropes. He tells Georgia that “poverty, violence, and racism are not necessary or inevitable” and that “humanity can overcome them within a generation.” He urges people to “feel it, know it, believe it, work for it.” Please.
Unless, of course, the vulnerable person in question is still in the womb and her mother sits in a college classroom. Then the Beloved Community suddenly has a dress code: no babies allowed.
This week, the Senate had a simple choice. Not a final vote on a bill. Not sweeping new regulations. Just a cloture vote on whether to proceed to the Pregnant Students’ Rights Act, a motion needing 60 affirmative votes. It got 47 to 45 and failed, and Jon Ossoff helped kill it by voting to block debate.
The bill requires schools to send enrolled students an email every term, update handbooks, cover this information at orientation, post it on the website, and make sure student health and counseling centers have it ready. That information includes campus and community resources that help a pregnant student keep her child and finish her degree, as well as clear directions on how to file a Title IX complaint if a school discriminates against her because she chooses life.
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The bill would have ensured that pregnant and parenting students know the rights and accommodations already available to them, without imposing new burdens on schools. By voting against cloture, Ossoff chose to block a life-affirming measure that only asked colleges to stop hiding the ball.
That’s the Jon Ossoff who never met an abortion he could not defend
The other Jon Ossoff looks and sounds different. He has a soft voice and a serious face. He speaks in sweeping phrases about justice and the poor. He talks about maternal mortality and insists that Georgia needs better care for pregnant women.
He even calls foster children “Georgia’s most vulnerable.” He tours detention centers and announces that abuse of migrants “shocks the conscience” because “every human being should be treated with dignity and respect.”
You hear this version of Jon Ossoff, and you might almost think you have met a man who believes what he says about the weak, the poor, the voiceless. But then a bill appears that would simply tell a nineteen-year-old sophomore who just saw two pink lines on a stick that she can stay in school, carry her baby, get flexible scheduling, secure excused absences for prenatal care, and access child care help and local pregnancy centers that stand ready to support her.
And suddenly, that caring Jon Ossoff clocks out, and we get Jon Ossoff the abortion politician. This Jon Ossoff does not only oppose modest protections for unborn children. He works to erase them. He backed the terribly titled, worded, and bloody Women’s Health Protection Act, better described as an abortion for all act, which would wipe out nearly every state-level safeguard and guarantee abortion on demand across all nine months as a federal right.
He cosponsored the 2023 version as well. That bill again tried to strip away state laws that require parental involvement, waiting periods, informed consent, and basic health and safety standards for abortion facilities.
With a straight face, he still manages to call himself a champion for vulnerable children while he fights to keep dismemberment abortion legal and unrestricted. He calls himself a defender of women while he works to preserve an industry that profits every time a frightened student believes she has no way to be both mother and graduate.
Here’s the key and why the abortion shills had to kill this debate, this bill speaks out loud the words the abortion industrial complex wants buried. The words that are anathema to them. It mentions pregnancy resource centers. It talks about maternity housing on campuses. It points to real programs, like Baby Steps at Auburn and MiraVia at Belmont Abbey, where pregnant students live, study, and raise their babies in community.
That kind of support threatens the narrative that abortion equals freedom and motherhood equals failure. So the abortion industry does what it always does. It leans on its friends and gives them lots and lots of money. Jon Ossoff opened his coffers and took the industry’s money and its words to heart.
He did not stand up and argue that the text of the bill lacked merit. He did not offer an amendment. He did not say, “Let us improve this for Georgia students.” He simply voted “no” on cloture and helped shut down the conversation.
Pregnant college women received their answer. From the same man who lectures the country that “this is life or death” when insurance subsidies hang in the balance.
Imagine a freshman at a Georgia school who finds out she is pregnant. She wants the degree she worked for. She loves the child she carries. She fears she will lose both.
Without the knowledge of what resources are available to her, the abortion clinic website finds her in two clicks. The abortion pills find her mailbox in two days.
The Senator from Georgia made sure the Senate did not even take one hour to debate a bill that would help her see another path.
There are two Jon Ossoffs, and the good people of Georgia don’t deserve either.
LifeNews.com Note: Raimundo Rojas is the director of Outreach Director for the National Right to Life Committee. He is a former president of Florida Right to Life and has presented the pro-life message to millions in Spanish-language media outlets. He represents NRLC at the United Nations as an NGO. Rojas was born in Santiago de las Vegas, Havana, Cuba and he and his family escaped to the United States in 1968.
