Pro-life warrior Seth Gruber explains how the ‘lexicon of leftism’ is responsible for abortion, LGBT radicalism and the sexualization of children

Seth Gruber has been involved in advocacy for the unborn for as long as he can remember – and even before.

While expecting Seth’s birth, his mother served as director of a pregnancy resource center.

As an adult, Seth would go on and found the pro-life group, White Rose Resistance, which takes its name from a Nazi resistance group of the 20^th century. Gruber’s mission: to be a voice for unborn children.

A key part of that mission is informing the public of the dark history behind the modern abortion movement, as told in the documentary film Gruber recently produced, called The 1916 Project. The film explores the eugenicist legacy of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger. 

“Even honest leftists, including Planned Parenthood, will now admit, ‘Yeah our founder was a eugenicist, she palled around with some Nazis,’” Gruber told The Lion in an exclusive interview. “The reality is just way darker and more sinister than could possibly be imagined.” 

Sanger openly associated with Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan and believed “the unfit” – minorities, the disabled and the poor – shouldn’t be allowed to reproduce. 

How did the left transform this heinous agenda into something that ostensibly empowers women? 

Gruber says it was the “careful and intentional use of language that the left has always been very good at utilizing to soften the reality of what their worldview represents. 

“Planned Parenthood has been very, very, very good – as have the liberal elites, and I call them the journalistic prostitutes of the culture of death – to rape the English language to make it mean whatever they want it to mean. 

“And as the culture begins to adopt or inculcate the new lexicon, it begins to shape and change the way we see the world and shape and change the way that we think. [And people] are often oblivious to the fact that that’s happening to them.” 

He calls it the lexicon of leftism, and it’s easy to see its effects once you start looking. 

For example, the word “fetus” is Latin for “offspring” or “hatching of young.” But in the modern lexicon, it means disposable mass of non-human tissue. 

“Abortion” becomes “healthcare,” puberty blockers or sterilization drugs become “gender-affirming care,” “marriage” is no longer constituted as a covenant between a man and a woman, “gender” is suddenly a state of mind, and “parenthood” and “family” can include two women who purchase sperm. 

But Planned Parenthood isn’t just providing abortions. It’s also the largest provider of “comprehensive” sex education curriculum in public schools and second largest provider of cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers. 

To Gruber, abortion is the lynchpin of this aberrant religion of death.  

In fact, he calls abortion the “sacrament of secularism because abortion says, ‘You must die so I can live,’ but Christ says, ‘No, I must die so you can live.’” 

Despite being framed primarily as a women’s issue, data suggests men are a primary driver of the practice. 

Gruber cites Planned Parenthood’s research wing, the Guttmacher Institute, which surveyed women on why they chose to have an abortion. Survey participants were allowed to select multiple options. 

The answers revealed aborted babies’ fathers were often neglectful or absent altogether. 

Three out of four women said they couldn’t afford to have a baby (73%) and half either didn’t want to be a single mother or were having relationship problems (48%). 

Additionally, 42% were unmarried and 14% said their husband or partner wanted them to have an abortion. 

In contrast, very few (less than 2%) cited rape or incest as the reason for terminating their pregnancy. Health issues for the mother were also relatively low, at 12%. 

“What this screams is that women kill their babies in large part because of men,” Gruber observed, “because they’re not there or because they’re degenerates.” 

On the flip side, the presence of fathers in the home comes with a number of social benefits.  

With fathers, families are far less likely to be impoverished, and children are less likely to have behavioral disorders. Fathers decrease the risk of suicide, the likelihood of teenage pregnancy, drug or alcohol abuse and criminal behavior. 

“Could God scream the gospel at you any louder?” Gruber asked, that “the presence of the father bring[s] peace and restoration and healing.” 

For Gruber, the Gospel is indeed at the heart of everything. 

“The pro-life movement didn’t have its origin in 1973,” he told The Lion, referring to the pro-abortion Supreme Court ruling known as Roe v. Wade. “The truth is the pro-life movement began at the cross of the Lord Jesus, and all of history has been a battle for life ever since.”  

In fact, Gruber has another documentary forthcoming, The Last Stand, which chronicles Christianity’s countercultural advocacy throughout history, starting with the first century church and ending with William Wilberforce’s abolition of the British slave trade. 

“The only reason we think that abortion, homosexuality, transgenderism, the sexualization of pop culture, the sexualization of our children are new issues is because we don’t know our history,” Gruber explained. 

“All of it is one battle. There’s been different episodes, various moments when Christians prevailed, but then Christians, often in the midst of their prosperity and their victory, fall asleep and the old foes resurrect.” 

Like The 1916 Project, The Last Stand will be available both as a documentary and a book.  

Gruber will also be releasing an extended curriculum for The 1916 Project that can be used by churches, schools or families.