Lizzie Marbach, the former communications director for Ohio Right to Life, was fired from the entity after disagreements about social media use which culminated in a viral exchange with Ohio Republican Congressman Max Miller. She contended in an exclusive interview with The Sentinel that her dismissal reveals broader issues within established pro-life organizations.

“We are more offended and embarrassed by calling abortion murder than we actually are about abortion being murder,” she said. “It is complete lunacy and I pray that this situation helps to point that out.”

Marbach, a former Trump campaign and Ohio Republican Party staff member, tweeted from her personal account on Tuesday that “there's no hope for any of us outside of having faith in Jesus Christ alone.” Miller, whose wife serves as a board member at Ohio Right to Life, then called on Marbach to “delete” the tweet, saying that the assertion violated his religious freedom as a Jew. Miller publicly apologized later on Tuesday, but Ohio Right to Life fired Marbach two days later, as revealed by internal communications exclusively obtained by The Sentinel.

The dismissal came after other disagreements between Marbach and her superior about social media use, including one post from her personal account in which she called a pro-abortion activist a “murderous liar” in an exchange about a proposed state constitutional amendment that would expand abortion legality, as also reported by The Sentinel. Text messages between Marbach and the superior revealed that the latter was concerned about the tone of the post.

Marbach told The Sentinel that she and the Ohio Right to Life board of directors often disagreed about the tone she used from her personal account on social media. She said that her termination on Thursday was “not due to the exchange with Miller” but believes the exchange “contributed to the manner and time of which it happened.”

“I believe in using strong messaging that cuts to the core of what abortion is and that makes them uncomfortable,” she commented. “They prefer to use softer and more effeminate tones to ensure no one is offended. On Monday and Tuesday, after I refused to denounce a tweet, we discussed the potential of us not being the right fit. However, no decisions were made at the time and we ended the conversations stating we will pray about it.”

Her superior cited the exchange between Miller and Marbach as a distraction and dismissed her because of her social media use as a whole. Peter Range, the chief executive of Ohio Right to Life, said in a statement on Thursday that the dismissal “was not based on any single event.”

Marbach told The Sentinel that Range had been one of her “only advocates” at Ohio Right to Life and claimed he is “one of the few” individuals at the organization that “genuinely cares about ending abortion.”

“This exposes the truth of what the pro-life movement actually believes about abortion,” she continued. “If an organization is willing to fire someone over using a ‘harsh tone’ but won't denounce politicians that compromise on abortion, then what are we even working toward as a movement? Ohio Right to Life was supposed to be an organization to hold politicians accountable for not protecting life, and instead, it has become an organization to give cover for politicians who don't want to act but still want to call themselves ‘pro-life’ to voters.”

Marbach also believes that the social media posts which led to her dismissal show that “even honest pro-lifers” have become compromised by broader cultural sensitivities. She said that “abortion can only be defeated by the church standing up and speaking clearly about the issue” and that the Christian faith must be the foundation from which abortion is opposed.

“Pro-life organizations have run away from the “Christian’ label for years now as a way to ‘grow their tent' and look where it has left us: compromised, weakened, and with no path forward,” she asserted. “We live in a culture that no longer believes that all human life is sacred. Showing them science cannot make them abhor evil, only God can do that. So while science and reason are great tools God has given us, our foundation can only rest on Jesus and Scripture.”

When asked what is next for her, Marbach said she would “continue my best to imitate Christ in everything that I do.” Marbach and her husband are expecting their first child next month: she added that “serving them as a wife and mother are going to be my immediate focus.”