Raising My Daughters After Roe v. Wade, share that pro-life equals pro-woman

Last week, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, putting abortion law in the hands of the states. And just like that, I’m now raising two teenage girls in a time that many of us worked for, prayed for, but never thought we’d live to see.

While there are many reasons to be discouraged by all the uncertainty that currently reigns in our country, this unequivocal victory for life is also a victory for women. This gives me, as a mother, every reason to be hopeful and optimistic for the future of my daughters.

This decision empowers women, as it values ​​their lives, as well as that of the unborn child. My message to my daughters has always been: pro-life is pro-woman.

PRO-LIFE GROUPS AND CHURCHES ARE TARGETING INCREASED VIOLENCE AFTER SUPREME COURT ABORTION RULING

My daughters are old enough to have seen their ultrasound pictures. Including a 3D ultrasound of my eldest daughter holding her hands under her head as if sleeping. Almost 15 years later, she will still sleep in this same position.

Technology only moves forward, it never goes backwards. Since my last ultrasound over a decade ago, images like my daughter’s have become more vivid with the introduction of 5D and HD technology.

Since the leak of the Dobbs ruling a few months ago, attacks on pregnancy centers have escalated. In my home state of Virginia, a pregnancy center had its windows smashed and a spray-painted nastygram that read, « IF ABORTION IS NOT SAFE, YOU ARE NOT SAFE! »

My daughters are old enough to have seen their ultrasound pictures. Including a 3D ultrasound of my eldest daughter holding her hands under her head as if sleeping. Almost 15 years later, she will still sleep in this same position.

I’m so confused. I feel like I live in an upside-down clown world. The pro-abortion crowd continues to shout about women’s rights and the fact that there is no one to help women who carry their babies to term.

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Yet pregnancy centers — about 3,000 of them in the United States — literally exist to support and provide assistance to women with unplanned pregnancies who carry their babies to term. I know, I used to volunteer in one.

They offer ultrasounds, counseling, material resources, as well as referrals for medical care, housing, employment, social services, and adoption placement if needed.

But I guess that’s not the kind of support the abortion lobby had in mind when it was shouting about « women’s rights. » Their message is clear – unless you are the right kind of woman, they will threaten lives and destroy your property.

AFTER SUPREME COURT ABORTION RULING, THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT IS IMMORTAL

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem gets pro-life = pro-woman. She announced a statewide initiative to support moms, tweeting, « Being pro-life also means giving moms the help they need to succeed. We’re launching http://Life.SD .gov to give women the resources they need to manage pregnancy, birth, parenthood, and adoption, if they choose. »

Well done, governor.

Abortion is the antithesis of women’s empowerment, touted by people who have spent decades portraying themselves as defenders and liberators of women. This is false advertising at its best.

Just last month, nearly every Democratic senator voted for the dishonestly named « Women’s Health Protection Act, » which would allow abortion until delivery. There is no « protection » in this scenario.

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They dropped their argument about “safe, legal and rare” abortion – so outdated – in exchange for abortion on demand – for any reason, any time.

True Women’s Empowerment advocates ending violence against women. Yet the very act of terminating a pregnancy is violence – towards the mother and the unborn baby.

Times to stop lying to our daughters.

When it comes to the abortion lobby arguing for their extreme stance on abortion until birth, they don’t. Because they know they can’t. They know it’s indefensible.

According to a CBS poll, only 17% of the country agrees that abortion should be legal at any stage of pregnancy.

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So, instead, they are hemorrhaging hysterics in their attempt to change the subject with scare tactics, porn scare, and a collapse in the spread of large-scale misinformation.

A few of their favorite picks include – Supreme Court to ban gay marriage, birth control and interracial marriage.

Even at my daughters young age, I had to go through some of this nonsense with them because their friends passed on ridiculous things like – “now they want to make gay people illegal”.

Sigh.

What does all this have to do with abortion? Not a thing.

SUPREME COURT RULE RE REQUIRES A CHRISTIAN RESPONSE TO ABORTION THAT MUST OFFER HOPE, NOT JUDGMENT

I often, and repeatedly, quote a version of a quote to my children from the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, DN.Y., « Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. »

Yet they persist.

Crowds outside the Supreme Court react to the Dobbs decision.
(Joshua Comins/Fox News)

Celebrities unfamiliar with personal responsibility have been busy using their bully pulpits and all of their Twitter personas to chime in on Roe v. Wade. Anyone care to guess where the land of depravity has descended?

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It’s exactly how you expect them to act when you suddenly realize that their inconsequential sex can be mastered.

At the Glastonbury Festival in England, singer Olivia Rodrigo exclaimed: « I am devastated and terrified. So many women and so many girls are going to die because of this », then dedicated the song « F*** You » to the Supreme. The justices of the Court who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Factually incorrect, but super classy.

Olivia Rodrigo and Lily Allen sang Allen’s 2009 hit « F—You » before Supreme Court justices after the Roe v. Wade decision
(Joseph Okpako)

In a video on Twitter, OJ Simpson called the cancellation of Roe v. Wade of « awful decision ».

I’m pretty sure that whatever side of a moral issue OJ is on, I want to be on the side. Enough said.

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My daughters will know that the truth matters. They will know that lives have value and their actions have consequences. There are no passes in life, there is agency, personal responsibility, consequences for their life choices, and ultimately the grace of God.

And they will know that being pro-life is undeniably and unmistakably pro-woman.

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