Legislator Who Used Her Miscarriage to Promote Abortions Now Confirms She Didn’t Have Abortion

The North Carolina state lawmaker who recently switched parties and helped pass a pro-life law accused Democrat lawmakers in a new interview of lying about her miscarriage by calling the loss of her unborn child an “abortion.”

In an interview with WBT Charlotte’s News Talk host Brett Jensen, state Rep. Tricia Cotham, R-Mecklenburg, described the numerous attacks that she has endured since switching from Democrat to Republican in April. After the change, Cotham, who had a pro-abortion record and endorsements from pro-abortion groups, voted her conscience and helped to pass a new state law that bans elective abortions after 12 weeks and provides increased support for pregnant and parenting families.

Cotham said there have been numerous acts of vandalism and threats against herself and her family this spring. But she said the false accusation that she had an elective abortion is “deeply wrong” and “the hardest thing” she has had to endure.

“I had a miscarriage, and a miscarriage in medical terms is a spontaneous abortion …” she told WBT Charlotte. “First of all, they shouldn’t even be talking about my miscarriage. That is just very painful and wrong, but they’re repeating this message that I had an abortion and that is false.

“And that has been extremely frustrating and they keep on doing it and that is below the belt,” she continued.

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Back in 2015, Cotham shared about her miscarriage during a House debate about a bill to require a waiting period and informed consent prior to an elective abortion, according to a video of her testimony shared by freelance journalist Bryan Anderson.

Cotham, who opposed the bill, used the word “miscarriage” in reference to her own tragic loss but also used common pro-abortion talking points about “choice” and “between a woman and her doctor” that made her story confusing.

Abortion activists sometimes conflate the natural loss of an unborn baby in a miscarriage with killing an unborn baby in an elective abortion, but they are not the same. Pro-life laws only ban killing unborn babies in elective abortions; they do not ban miscarriage care or medical treatments to save pregnant mothers’ lives, such as in an ectopic pregnancy.

Cotham did not mention her 2015 comments in her interview this week with WBT Charlotte, but she did insist that her first unborn child died in a miscarriage, not an abortion, and told abortion supporters that they need to stop claiming otherwise.

Since switching parties and voting pro-life, Cotham said she also has been the victim of numerous acts of vandalism, including having her car windows broken, her car keyed and the word “traitor” spray-painted on her driveway and, later, on the street near where she lives. She accused her former party of being “petty” in its attacks against her and spoke about how warmly she has been received by Republicans.

“I anticipated hateful comments … [but] I did not expect people to be so vulgar, so vile to come to my house, to come to my mother’s house,” she told the news station. “Just last week, the Democratic women, certain clubs sent me a lot of metal coat hangers with extremely vile messages inside, and the Republican women at the same time sent me beautiful flowers and a scarf and so much, so I think that really shows the contrast.”

In May, Cotham joined Republicans in voting to override Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a 12-week abortion ban.

It is not clear if Cotham would support stronger legal protections for unborn babies, but she did praise sections of the new law that increase support for pregnant and parenting families, including parental leave and maternity care.

Based on the most recent CDC data, the law could potentially save 3,000 babies from abortions every year, not including reducing abortion tourism from other states that have even stronger legal protections for unborn children.

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