In 2009 I, among many, have always adopted the stance on abortion that advocated that I would never have an abortion, but I can’t stop someone who does. I have since realised the scape-goat nature of this statement. People, in an age, where students fight for study rights, and the unemployed fight for their financial support. Amnesty fight for freedom. And me? Well I discovered that I need to stand up and fight for life. Because of all of the different people fighting for different things, this is the one group of people, children, who cannot fight for themselves. The unborn.
So I began, saying I was pro-life. When asked that was my response. I think abortion is wrong. Was it enough? No. Because then I encountered women, destroyed by abortion. Not allowed by society to talk of the child they lost. Forbidden by their church, family or friends to acknowledge their grief, feel their loss. Mothers without children. Regretting, suffering, hurt, broken mothers. No direction was left, their child was gone and who was standing up for them? Who was fighting for the right for this to never be allowed to happen to them again? I am.
So now, when I have a friend who opposes abortion but are silent, I have to say it is not enough. We are not being heard. And the fingers, toes, heart beats and hair of the 10 week old babies are being mutilated in the womb. It is not ok, and the savagery of abortion is slowly being revealed. In an era where women are encouraged to stand up and say I am a mother without a child and I am devastated (see also Silent No More Campaign), in an era where doctors are birthing babies alive and then refusing the save them because they were ‘supposed to come out dead.’ It is time to stand up, to not be ashamed of your fight for life, to not be bullied or backed down by ‘feminists’ who argue that mutilating what it is to be a woman, to become more masculine is the only way to be a successful women. These ‘feminist’ advocates are suppressing true womanhood by offering liberation by becoming like a man. This is not feminism or liberation. This is oppression cloaked in feminist liberation. To truly fight the feminist cause one must become more womanly, be more proud of womanhood and to cherish the uniqueness of the female: to love your womb and love your child.
True feminism is pro-woman, pro- life or as a smart cookie said when I was travelling with her ‘pro-womb-an’.
To be pro-life is to be silent no more.
Watch this space for the Pro-life movement in Scotland. It is gaining momentum. We will win.
To Be Pro-life 