I have several friends and family members that participated in various “March for Women” events across the country last weekend. These are lovely ladies, with good intentions, intelligent minds, and loving hearts. Each one had their own reasons for participating, but I felt my own heart sink as their proud pictures came across my facebook feed, one after another.
My problem with the march is that it was made very clear that the pro-life viewpoint was not welcome to participate in the march. And this is not just an issue that is “very important to me,” but is an issue that is at the very core of who I am, and everything I believe in.
I have had strangers look at my disabled son and say, “Didn’t you know when you were pregnant?” Strangers, who never even want to see the beauty of his life, but rather think the world would be better off without him. I wish you could see their shocked and horrified faces when I say, “Yes, we did know. And we chose life for him.” I have to explain to Matthew, and to his brothers and sisters, that he doesn’t have any friends that are like him, because over 90% of parents choose to kill their child rather than raise a child with Down syndrome.
We know, without a shadow of a doubt, that life begins as conception. It is an indisputable scientific fact. So, how can I possibly be “okay” with someone making a “choice” to end a life? A baby is not a body-part of its mother. It is a human being. And, if we don’t have the right to life, no other rights matter.
The women’s march claimed to stand for “disability rights.” What about the rights of the 90% of babies with Down syndrome who are brutally killed? The women’s march claimed to stand against “violence” except for the ultimate act of violence committed against 60 million of our most vulnerable citizens since Roe V. Wade.
The women’s march claimed to stand for “civil rights,” but Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, wanted to eliminate the black race by using abortion. To this day, a disproportionately large percentage of Planned Parenthood clinics are in neighborhoods with minority populations. A disproportionately large number of minority children are killed. In 2004, the rates of abortion by ethnicity in the U.S. were:
- 50 abortions per 1,000 black women
- 28 abortions per 1,000 Hispanic women
- 11 abortions per 1,000 white women.
An outrage? Absolutely!
Pornography has been shown to be a root cause of much of the violence against women that is present in the United States today. It is also a root cause of child sex-trafficking. I can’t think of anything that is more degrading and objectifying of women, and yet it wasn’t mentioned at all in the Women’s March. In fact, the lewd attire of many of the participants only objectified us more. If we are more than our body parts, let’s not dress up like our genitalia.
As for religious freedom, what about the freedom to not pay for contraceptives and abortions that oppose a person’s religious beliefs? Many contraceptives are abortifacients, and groups like “Little Sisters of the Poor,” and Christian citizens should not have to pay for them.
As Matt Walsh said,
“Before the march even began, abortion on demand had been proclaimed an essential “unity principle” of the so-called “Women’s March.” They were so serious about this principle that pro-life groups were barred from participating. It’s fair to say that once a political demonstration cites baby murder as a fundamental value, nothing else it stands for really matters. I cannot take a march seriously after it has professed an affinity for child killing just as I cannot willingly consume your homemade chocolate cake after you inform me that fecal matter is one of its ingredients.”
Even Hitler had some perceived “good points” in his economic reform policies. There was a reason he was elected by the people. However, none of us could say that we admire or support him. Because of the Eugenics he attempted, and the 11 million lives he ended, we would never stand at a rally and shout, “Hail Hitler!” because we thought his “other policies” were great. I can’t support this march or this movement for the same reason. Abortion is our holocaust, ending the lives of the disabled and minorities.
I will be marching this weekend at the March for Life, and I hope you will all join me.
#WhyWeMarch #walkforlife #marchforlife
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Addendum: There are two women who wrote excellent, related articles. They were able to touch on subjects that I did not have room or time to cover. Please go check them out, and be as encouraging and uplifting to them as you have been to me here!
To My Sisters Who Marched on Washington by Jenny Uebbing reminds us that we were not created to be equal to Men. Modern feminism seeks to destroy the wonderful uniqueness we were given as daughters of the King
An Apology From A Woman Who Didn’t March by Ruth Meyer reminds us that the freedoms we enjoy in the United States are only a dream for women around the world. Before we cry that our “rights” have been violated, we should remember our sisters throughout the world who truly long for the rights and freedoms we enjoy every day.
Matthew Nicholas Vawter 