Posted on 09/05/2024 2:39:51 PM PDT by Morgana
Ayala Isenberg’s story has been making the rounds for a while, and is best summed up in this Life Issues profile of her:
When Ayala was a child, she was repeatedly sexually abused for years. When she was 15 years old, she became pregnant through rape. Amazingly, despite the tragedy in conception, Ayala actually felt love for the child and fought to keep it. Sadly, she miscarried and lost her daughter. Now Ayala is a powerful advocate for life with a significant presence on social media where she vigorously defends the truth that every life is sacred.
She was platformed repeatedly by undiscerning pro-life organizations despite multiple red flags. Everyone from Life Institute to Students for Life wanted to share her story, with Live Action even running a feature on her a mere two months ago, revealing the role she’s been cosplaying lately:
Propelled to vent her grief, Isenberg laid bare her pain on social media on TikTok, then on Twitter.
“I felt so strongly about the value of life after my miscarriage that if I could do anything to protect a child in the womb from being murdered, I wanted to do that,” Isenberg said.
She got connected with Students for Life at a Students for Life Summit, protesting outside of Planned Parenthood facilities and attending rallies. She served as the organization’s North Carolina state captain.
Isenberg said, “I was at a gathering outside the White House right before it was announced that Roe had been overturned. It was such a historical moment.”
She flew to Los Angeles to participate in the Jubilee Middle Debate series as a representative of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising and gained millions of social media followers from online views of the debate. She launched an online blog, “To be a Pro-Life Jew,” on Substack.
Now 20 years old, Isenberg hosts fundraisers for women in crisis. She is working on a research project to showcase the number of women who die each year from legalized abortions
And yet.
In a since-deleted substack post, from an account that is now private, Ayala, who said a few months ago that she got pregnant a few months ago by her boyfriend but then had a miscarriage, writes that she actually intentionally murdered her child because she wanted to go to college and having a baby would have messed up those plans.
It feels weird typing that out. I had an abortion. A capital-A Abortion (or a termination procedure if you’re the kind of person who has a fridge with a working icemaker).
Anyways, this post is about that, and as much as I wish I was Sylvia Plath or even Lana Del Rey, I’m a substack blogger. This isn’t gonna be a masterpiece. I guess I need some way to talk about it openly without being terrified of people finding out, and the only way for me to stop worrying about that is to tell everyone upfront. So, there it is.
In early June, I was fresh out of inpatient treatment and doing my best to readjust. I was looking for a job, which was impossible (I applied to over 100 jobs and got one interview). A consistent issue was my lack of a driver’s license. My partner was out of work too. To top it all off, I was supposed to move in for my first semester at university in the beginning of August. Finding out I was pregnant, simply put, felt like the end of my life…
I just couldn’t imagine having to explain to my family, myself, and, most of all, my future children, that I was weeks away from being the first person in my family to go to university, and I screwed it up. That I, instead of having an abortion because I knew it would be very difficult for me, threw us right back into the cycle of generational poverty for God knows how long.
Notably, following her since-revealed abortion, she had a debate with Abolitionist United about the merits of pro-lifism vs abortion abolition. Here is more background on how that went:
Deleting most of her social media accounts and changing her user name from prolifejewess to blueridgejewess, Isenberg says she will delete any comments critical of her.
Why can’t these misandrists keep their legs closed?
Yet another reminder that “Pro-Life” really isn’t any such thing.
You are either against ALL abortion, or you are pro-infanticide. There is no “middle ground”. “Pro-life” is a fraud, with National Right To Life being the biggest hypocrites of all.
If that’s true perhaps she’s experiencing genuine remorse and contrition. I was taught in Catholic schools in the 50s/60s that God will forgive *any* sin if you have true contrition in your heart.
Oh my, the hypocrisy... yawn...
Is it wrong for Charles Manson to preach that murder is wrong? Would he be a hypocrite?
No doubt the Pro-Aborts are salivating over Isenberg’s apparent abortion, but that doesn’t make Pro-Life advocacy irrelevant.
Ultimately it’s about mitigation and a societal mindset that emphasizes and fosters Life & Family instead of Abortion & Impunity.
Life is tough. Yes she screwed up, and will have to work out some kind of resolution for herself. I think she was right to go public and not try to live a lie. The cognitive dissonance must be fierce as it is. Hope she finds the right person to talk to. Idk what Jews believe about abortion, but deciding and taking a life leaves an injury regardless of beliefs or ideologies.
This is what holiness is about, figuring out what the consequences are as far back from the sin as possible and then using that as guidance for your behavior.
“Why can’t these misandrists keep their legs closed?”
It takes two to conceive a baby.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t sound like she has any contrition or remorse. Sounds to me like she owned up to what she did, without saying she regrets it, because she knew she wasn’t going to get away with living a lie for much longer.
She needs to be kicked out of her position, for now,in the movement, even if she is forgiven by God. It took the Apostle Paul 3 years after his conversion, before starting his ministry.
A fornicater, baby killer, and liar, plus a “poser”..not a good resume. Her partner sounds like an irresponsible S#ithe∆d also.
“Now junior, behave yourself”...partner got some responsibility also.
One example and some are ready to denounce problife?
That's how a lot of people in these forums are on a number of issues. If they were ever pro-life to begin with, they lack the strength of conviction. Hope that doesn't extend to other issues in their lives.
And I oppose killing babies, period.
She was just pretending to be on the side of the pro lifers.
I used to be pro-choice.
The birth of my nephew 32 years ago changed my mind and heart.
Been staunchly pro-life ever since.
She’s a fraud.
There is only one thing I’m okay with about abortions. The mother’s life must be in danger.
And why cant the sperm donors keep it in their pants?
Prolifejewess — Wow. She gives both pro-lifers and Jews a bad name.
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