This past weekend, I arrived on scene on the side of a highway in Sterling, Virginia, where about fifteen ‘reproductive rights’ protesters gathered in masks with a soap box. I stopped, questioned them, and learned a few things:
- Abortion can’t just be legal for the left, it has to be accepted. In the same spirit of gay marriage and transgender rights, they want their sacraments celebrated.
One woman affiliated with the Virginia chapter of Whole Woman’s Health spoke about her past abortion, where she described it as “a procedure that was finished in under ten minutes,” and then referenced a woman in the recovery room with her who started crying beside her. She spoke of this to point as to why society must end the stigma of shame surrounding abortion. I would just like to say, having a minor procedure done on your body doesn’t cause post-traumatic stress, nor does it bring shame. If it’s just a “clump of cells,” why is there a feeling of guilt associated?
- The Left is politically committed to this fight. Are we?
This same woman from above called for the funding of abortions, comparing it to how pro-lifers fund “fake clinics” and the March for Life. Good to know the world’s largest annual human rights demonstration does in fact get to them. But here’s where I would disagree – the Right needs to fund true women’s health clinics (ones that holistically treat reproductive health and teach women about their bodies instead of pumping them full of synthetic hormones). We need to unite behind a brand like the Left does with Planned Parenthood. There should be an alternative. Period.
- They have infiltrated the schools. Why haven’t we?
The organizer of this rally, Jessica Berg, is a Loudon County Public School teacher who created a women’s and gender studies class in the district. If a progressive anthropology and history of men and women can be taught in government funded schools, why can’t a classical or Christian anthropological understanding of the masculine and feminine be taught?
- We have fundamentally different interpretations over key things.
One speaker, Virginia State Senator Barbara Favola said in her speech, “this is about human rights and women’s dignity.” It’s hard to talk about “human rights” with a group that can’t reason on what a human is. It’s also hard to discuss dignity with a group that believes that a woman has to kill her child for her own good, and that’s somehow a more dignified society than expecting a man to take care of that woman and child. It’s also hard to discuss the role and responsibility of men in all this when they’re being referred to as the “inseminators,” rather than as the fathers of the children.
- The Left has no interest in conversation.
Listen to Jessica Berg, Vice President of Loudoun County National Organization of Women shut down our conversation on when life actually begins.