It's interesting to me,
how feminists who used to reject abortion
in the first wave of feminists,
in the second wave of the women's movement,
in the 1970s, came to embrace abortion.
And, I'm sorry to say, as a feminist,
I have to blame it on a couple of guys.
We really do like guys.
But there were two men in particular,
one, Dr. Bernard Nathanson and Larry Lader,
who came up with this idea that we should
support and embrace abortion in America
and that the abortion laws were archaic.
And they weren't getting anywhere with the legislators.
And so, Larry Lader had an idea,
according to Dr. Nathanson,
that they would go to the leaders
of the women's movement and convince them,
"Look little ladies, if you can't be paid or promoted
in the workplace like men, well,
you know it's that fertility issue of yours
that's holding you back,
and you really need to pass as men in the workplace."
And unfortunately, leaders
of the women's movement at the time
embraced this idea and said basically,
women have to sacrifice their children
in order to succeed in the workplace.
This is totally the opposite of what
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the other
early American feminists believed.
It's a rejection of feminism.
It's a betrayal of feminism.
It is anti-woman to support abortion.
It hurts women. It kills women.
We know that, not only women have died
before Roe v. Wade,
which many women were concerned about,
and rightly so.
It was rare, but it happened.
But it still happens in America today.
What about Karnamaya Mongar?
Who was murdered by Dr. Gosnell.
What about Dawn Ravenell?
Who died as a thirteen-year-old,
who went away to school one day
and never came home.
Where is the mourning from the women's advocates?
Feminists for Life mourns with them.
And I think with every step we take at the March for Life,
we come closer to a day
when we make abortion unthinkable.
March forth!
