Outspoken Pro-Life Activist Has Secret Abortion+ Says Baby Would Interfere With University, Make Her Poor
Update and Retraction. An earlier version of this post erroneously conflated a miscarriage Ayala had at 18 with her recent abortion, suggesting that she had an abortion but claimed she miscarried instead. This is factually incorrect. It was a mistake to indicate that she lied about having a miscarriage, or that she described her miscarriage as an abortion, as these two are two separate instances and circumstances. We sincerely apologize for the error, and we are adding this article and notations to our ‘Retractions’ page.
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 writes that she recently, intentionally chose to have an abortion 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.
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