For example, on the issue of abortion, the consensus among American women is that there needs to be limits on the right to have an abortion. As it stands now, under
Roe v. Wade, a woman has an unfettered right to an abortion on demand - at any time and for any reason. Furthermore, the Supreme Court has repeatedly held that doctors, facilities and other entities cannot place any obstacles to a woman's exercise of this right - including an 1-day waiting period, including information about what the procedure will do to the baby, and including showing the woman an ultrasound of the life inside her. The national consensus today is that there should be limits on the right and ability to obtain an abortion and that limit is the first three months. In other words, the majority of women respect the right to life of the unborn and believe that if a woman wishes to abort the fetus growing in her womb, it is not unreasonable to require her to do so within the first three months. Together with those who do not support abortion at all time, the majority of women in the United States recognize the right to grow and survive in the growing fetus and the right to life in the unborn. This is in stark contrast to the women who marched in DC (and in other cities around the country) who would treat the miracle inside her as merely a mass of cells without any inherent humanity and would deny that living miracle the most essential of all rights bestowed upon living things by our Creator - the right to life. Hence, the majority of Americans, when faced with the realization that the next president would appoint new members to the US Supreme Court and hopeful for the opportunity to see limits placed on the right to an abortion, voted for Donald Trump. Our national conscience was at stake in this election.
By the way, no other country, except perhaps Pakistan and China, are as progressive as the United States when it comes to abortion rights. Europe, while recognizing rights to an abortion, at least have limits on when they can be performed.
How can we continue to pray to our Creator for his continued blessings on our country, in the many things we do and the many challenges we face, when we blatantly reject his teachings through our nation's position on abortion? As Dawn Laguens, Executive Vice President of Planned Parenthood, commented: "Access to abortion is an American Value." How can we expect the blessings of Divine Providence when we continue to devalue the life, the most innocent of life, he has given us and stand by as women allow themselves to become pregnant through casual conduct and then terminate that life so callously? We have to do better.
But those who marched and those who think like them do not want to do better. They don't want to even try to do better. In fact, their position is that they have a right not to be expected to do better. They want the national position to be that women have the right to a government that rejects any sense of morality in its laws and policies. To them, a woman's bundle of rights includes the right to be free from morals and expectations.
And hence, we saw protesters of every type marching for their right not to be judged, not to be labeled by the traditional meaning of "woman," for their right to unfettered a access to an abortion, for their right to have their birth control and abortions paid for by the American taxpayer, and for their right to dress like complete sluts while making sure men don't think of them or treat them that way.
The march reminded me of the actions of a young child. If you take away her toy, at first she tries to beg for the toy back. When that doesn't work, she pouts and cries. When that doesn't work, she takes a hissy fit and then starts to call her Mom all kinds of names. "You're a mean Mom!" "I hate you!"
As I mentioned earlier, when I arrived in DC for the inauguration festivities, I was unaware of the march. It was not until I got up and out of my hotel that I learned about it. Although the protest was called "The Women's March on DC," the title was deceiving. It certainly was not a march on behalf of all women. As mentioned earlier, the Women's March did not represent all women because they chosen not to. It represented only women who think like the organizers. If a woman does not think or act in line with their specific brand of feminism, she does not count as a woman and cannot march under the banner of "Women's March."
Doesn't a woman have the right, in the face of adversity and perhaps in the face of being without a husband to support and love her and the fetus inside her, to choose life? Why did the organizers of the March reject this viewpoint? How COULD they reject this viewpoint? How did it happen that Women's Rights groups have been able to brainwash women to overlook the horrific acts which accomplish an abortion and convince her that they are part of her bundle of equality rights. Frankly, it baffles me.
As Kelsey Kurtinitis writes in her article in the Liberty Conservative: "The Women's March claims to recognize that "defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us" -- but how can they not realize that the most marginalized group in America is the unborn? No other group in the country has been targeted for mass murder; more than 54 million babies have been killed since the Roe V Wade decision in 1973."
Jen Kuznicki, in Conservative Review, writes: "The whitewash of the mass genocide and torture of the unborn in America by pro-abort groups is a stain on this great nation equal to the acceptance and proliferation of slavery. Yet some women continue to refuse to look at what they claim is their right for what it actually means.
Diluted by the false narrative that women ought to be able to do what they wish with their own bodies, the protesters (pro-abortion rights groups, including Planned Parenthood) are blind to the fact that the body growing within their womb is a completely different body. It has different DNA, different blood, and will have a unique soul. And yet, that separate body - that new body - was partly created by her. This fact, together with the hormones surging through her body (in and of itself a miracle of nature and God), help create a bond of affection and protection.
Abortion is the most violent of rejections of both those human traits. Saline abortions burn the fetus and kill it. A saline abortion involves an injection of a very caustic salt solution into the amniotic sac which the baby swallows, causing his or her death. Labor begins 12 - 36 hours later." If one were to watching this process take place, it would be clear that there is torture involved. On an ultrasound, the unborn child can be viewed thrashing around in immense pain as his or her skin burns. No less a means of torture is the suction aspiration abortion where the baby is pulled into the strong suction of a vacuum which rips off her or her legs and arms before the body and head are crushed. Again, on ultrasound, the baby can be seen moving desperately to push away from that vacuum. Already, the baby has a strong will to survive.
Finally, there is the D&E abortion (Dilation and Evacuation), which is performed in the second trimester of pregnancy - usually between weeks 13 and 24 but can used up until week 32. This procedure is particularly heinous because the doctor himself dilutes the woman's cervix and then uses instruments to physically, surgically break the baby's bones and tear off his or her arms and legs. As Dr. Martin Haskell, an abortion doctor, testified in court: "We would attack the lower part of the lower extremity first, remove, you know, possibly a foot, then the lower leg at the knee and then finally we get to the hip." [Sworn testimony given in US District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin (Madison, WI, May 27, 1999, Case No. 98-C-0305-S]. Dr. Paul Jarrett, another abortion doctor, testified: "I used ring forceps to dismember the 13 or 14-week-size baby. Inside the remains of the rib cage I found a tiny, beating heart."
Former abortion doctor Dr. Anthony Levatino explained (in testimony) "Once you have grasped something inside, squeeze on the clamp to set the jaws and pull hard - really hard. You feel something let go and out pops a fully formed leg about 4 to 5 inches long. Reach in again and grasp whatever you can. Set the jaw and pull really hard once again and out pops an arm. Reach in again and again with that clamp and tear out the spine, intestines, heart and lungs. The toughest part of a D&E abortion is extracting the baby's head. The head of a baby that age is about the size of a plum and is now free floating inside the uterine cavity. You will know you have it right when you crush down on the clamp and see a pure white gelatinous material issue from the cervix. That was the baby's brains. If you have a really bad day like I often did, a little face may come out and stare back at you." In one medical text (Dr. Warren Hern, pg. 154), under "Abortion Practice," where it describes the "legal procedure for conducting an abortion", it reads: "A long curved Mayo scissors may be necessary to decapitate and dismember the fetus..." Dr. Jarrett remembers: "I was finally able to remove the head and look squarely into the face of a human being...a human I had just killed."
We all know that the growing fetus can feel pain but can we imagine the torture and the intense pain the baby feels, at age 20-32 weeks, while being harmed and dismembered.
The coup de grace, of course, occurs when the baby, after surviving this parade of absolute horribles, miraculously is born still alive. Very often, the doctor will "finish him or her off" by severing the spinal cord, crushing the skull, or something equally abhorrent, and then tossing the body in a garbage.
If that's a problem (and to most it isn't), according to the Women's Choice activists, there is always the post-conception pill (Plan B). Unfortunately, w kills the child at a much more acceptable phase of life, between five and nine weeks. The only thing is that the pill starves the child to death over a long period of time.
Abortion goes against all things which are natural. It's a termination of a life, however you look at it. This insensitivity to life and this outright torture of an innocent unborn baby cannot be what is meant by a "Woman's Right."
Remember the mission statement proclaimed by the Women's March: "We believe that Women's Rights are Human Rights and Human Rights are Women's Rights. This is the basic and original tenet for which we unite to March on Washington." How can a woman boast advocacy for human rights while simultaneously denying the humanity of unborn human beings? How can a woman, of all human beings, deny this? How can a woman march for her unfettered ability to have casual and consequence-free sex (claiming it to be a protectable right) while at the same time fighting against the inalienable right to life of the developing young woman in the womb?
As it turns out, there are more women who do not share the same position on abortion as those who protested. And I am one of them.
Now, the abortion issue is what bothers me terribly. I understand that mistakes happen, birth control is not fool-proof, and that there can be instant regrets, but that is not what this group is about. They want full control over what happens in their womb and with their body, including the unfettered right to terminate a pregnancy at any time for any reason whatsoever (ie, the most liberal reading of Roe v. Wade). The problem is that when a woman is pregnant, there is a second body inside her, a second life, with a separate set of genes and an equal right to life. The womb she seeks so selfishly and aggressively to protect is the same womb that God and nature blessed her with in order to carry out the most important job of all - bringing forth new life and propagating the most advanced and special of all of God's creations.
God, in His infinite wisdom, gave women this enormous responsibility. Knowing her capacity for love, patience, nurturing, wisdom, and devotion, she was the gender chosen for this incredible and essential of nature's processes. And for all of man's time on Earth, she has taken care that this process has continued and has moved us forward. She has conceived and born children, she has loved her children unconditionally and regardless of the situation in which they were given to her, she has nurtured and educated them, and has set them free to take their places in our society. She has helped in immeasurable ways to form the solid foundation on which our communities are built.
The women who marched on January 21 have their right to do so, but how sad it is that they ignore the fact that another human being is involved and how sad it is that they reject the awesome responsibility that God and nature has placed with them. In this, they only weaken the role a woman holds in our society, not strengthen it.
References:
* Mission Statement of the Women's March -- https://static1.squarespace.com/static/584086c7be6594762f5ec56e/t/587ffb31d2b857e5d49dcd4f/1484782386354/WMW+Guiding+Vision+%26+Definition+of+Principles.pdf
Exposing Abortion. http://exposeabortion.com/
Kelsey Kurtinitis, "The Exclusionary Hypocrisy of the Women's March," The Liberty Conservative, January 17, 2017. Referenced at: http://www.thelibertyconservative.com/exclusionary-hypocrisy-womens-march-washington/
Jen Kuznicki, "Women's March on Washington is Really a March Against Women, Science, and Life Itself," January 2017. Referenced at:
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2017/01/womens-march-on-washington-is-really-a-march-against-women-science-and-life-itself
