Moving testimony:
I attended the annual March for Life in Washington, DC this year for the first time. I marched with the Silent No More Awareness campaign and gave my testimony with hundreds of other women in front of the Supreme Court building.
The Silent No More women led the march and were the first to arrive at the Supreme Court. When we got there, standing up against the black fence surrounding the building, I saw five women holding pro-abortion signs. I looked at these women. I wanted to see their faces. You see, I used to be one of them.
I was a militant, pro-abortion, anti-catholic feminist who had experienced two abortions of my own. I was a member of NOW, NARAL and I volunteered at Planned Parenthood. I participated in marches and protests wearing my “pro-choice” button. I screamed at pro-lifers who I believed were religious fanatics. I assumed these “religious fanatics” just wanted to keep women barefoot and pregnant. I also believed the Catholic Church (who in my opinion was the worst of the religious fanatics) was full of evil, misogynistic men who oppressed women. I would argue vehemently with anyone who disagreed with me.
A rush of memories greeted me as I watched those five women standing against that fence. While I gave my testimony and told the crowd a little bit about my former self. It struck me. Feminists groups do not care about women. They care about abortion…
…The feminist’s very identity is wrapped up in abortion, not women’s rights or welfare. For example, do you ever hear from a feminist group when women are being forced to have abortions against their will in China? Do you ever hear from NOW or NARAL when only baby girls are aborted in China or India? Do you ever hear from them when women here in this country are coerced or pressured by their employers, husbands, parents or boyfriends to have an abortion? Did you hear from one feminist group when Laura Smith of MA was killed by an abortionist?
It was some magnificent ladies from Silent No More who convinced me that I, as a man, have a bound duty to fight against abortion. While I have been pro-life most of my adult life (I was a bit pro-choice early on), I always shied away from getting too directly involved in it for fear that the fact of my male sex would paint me as some sort of hypocrite, or someone who just didn’t know enough to make a judgment. That is all over with for me, and has been for years – I was instructed in that part of being a man where a man will do everything he can to protect women and children, even if they aren’t his wife and child. Listening to the testimony of the Silent No More ladies, I was moved to the depths of my soul and at that moment became a man who would, also, be silent no more.
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