This past weekend, conservative commentator Ashley St. Clair announced that she had a baby with Elon Musk 5 months ago. Many influencers on the Right congratulated Ashley St. Clair and suggested that instead of being criticized, she should be commended for not aborting the baby.
I probably wouldn’t say “congratulations” to a woman who gets pregnant after sex outside of marriage. Not because it’s unjustified, but because it’s insufficient. All children are worthy of celebration, but I think saying “congratulations”—especially on social media—could send the wrong message.
I know a young woman whose sexual sin led to a pregnancy. When she told me the news, I didn’t say “congratulations.” I think I offered her better words. I said something like, “God has blessed you. He hasn’t punished you. He has responded to your sin with grace.”
Though I meant what I said, I didn’t anticipate how much of a blessing that child would be to my friend. Her life since the unplanned pregnancy is probably the best example I know of what God means when he says children are a blessing. The child is the best thing that’s ever happened to her. She was an aimless young woman before she had the baby. But she’s since graduated from college, and she has a good career.
I’ve used her story to change many pro-abortion people’s minds on abortion.
However, some foolish people on the Right like Laura Loomer said, “As a woman, I’d rather die childless than live with the scourge of being a single mom. But, that is just me. I can’t imagine a bigger misery than raising a child you will only resent. I would hate myself for the rest of my life if I ever became a single mom.”
People like Laura Loomer are (maybe) unintentionally making pro-abortion arguments. Single mothers are not cursed; they are blessed. Children are always a blessing.
The sin in this story is that she had sex with Elon Musk outside of marriage. The sin isn’t that she’s a single mother. After all, women can become single mothers without having sex outside of marriage.
But the most disturbing thing about all of this is that some people on the Right have proven themselves to be frauds when it comes to their supposed concerns about the rate of broken homes and fatherlessness in America.
According to some people on the Right, fatherlessness isn’t a major problem so long as the deadbeat absentee father is Elon Musk and the mother is a popular conservative.
Earlier this year, Elon Musk shared that one of his 13 children identifies as transgender. He should know that fatherlessness is the biggest cause of “transgender” children.
When fathers reject their role in their children’s lives, we shouldn’t be surprised when they reject their identity. Broken homes tend to create broken people.
This means Elon Musk can’t be America First if he’s not family first. You can’t make America great again if you do not make families and fathers great again. What America needs most isn’t good politicians or good businessmen.
What America needs most is good fathers.