 On a college campus in Texas, a prolife group put up a display of 2,904 crosses - one for every abortion that occurs each day in the United States.
The display was vandalized.
The students put it back up.
The next day a video surfaced...
In it, a male pro-choice student expressed outrage that each cross
merely represented “an aborted fetus."
He went on to speculate about what else each cross might represent, such as a woman who was able to go on to become a politician or doctor because she wasn’t saddled with the burden of motherhood...
Perhaps each cross represented a woman who was raped and
wasn’t “forced” to bear the “result of her assault?”
As women we found this incredibly condescending.
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So in true New Wave Feminists fashion,
we’ve decided to enlighten our "white knight" on what these crosses actually represent...
They represent the 64% of
women who attend post-abortion counseling each year and say they felt coerced
into abortion by their partner, parent, or abuser.
They represent the women who were lied to and told that they’d be crushed by the
financial responsibility of raising another child… when in reality there are so
many local outreaches that strive to help women in unplanned pregnancies with:
-Housing
-Daycare
-Medical bills
-And so many more resources.
All for free.
They represent the social justice warriors who convince women that without
abortion they won’t be able to become politicians, or doctors, or innovators.
Because nothing screams “feminism” like a man telling us what we CAN’T do,
right ladies?
They represent a world that
tells teenagers their lives will be destroyed if they have a baby at 17, 16,
15… that they can’t let their child live because they aren’t strong enough…
instead of creating a culture that tells women THEY CAN….
They can have their child and
finish school….
They can keep their baby and
still reach their goals….
She can choose life at 16 and
her future will hold so much more love and joy than she ever imagined.
Each cross represents a child that had to die because rather than eradicating poverty
and hunger; we decided the poor are better off dead.
These crosses represent the women
who were raped and then told that they couldn’t carry the “result of their
assault” to term and that they must abort. They were the ones that no one
bothered to empower with the truth that… This is YOUR CHILD TOO.
No, because instead of doing that people continue to use “rape arguments,”
listen to that, “RAPE ARGUMENTS!” These women's worst nightmare has become nothing more
than a talking point to promote your political agenda.
And so we are seldom able to hear, through all of the rhetoric, about the
heroines who CHOSE LIFE ...and PS, they are disgusted by the way you use their
stories to promote even more violence rather than celebrating their victory
over their victimization.
These crosses represent the unborn men and women who unlike the amazing Rebecca
Keissling’s and Ryan Bomberger’s of the world, were not allowed to live since
we’re all still horrifyingly comfortable with this patriarchal construct that
says because of their father’s transgressions it’s okay to callously refer to these
HUMAN BEINGS as “rape babies,” and dispose of them like garbage. Victim blame much?
What if each one of these
crosses represented a campus predator, an abusive boyfriend, or a flat out
douchebag who knew that abortion was his best friend because it would allow him
to use and exploit women for his pleasure without any consequences? Well, at
least not for him…. Right?
But someone pays. And we, as females know, it’s always the unborn child and
often the woman who has to live her whole life knowing that she bought into a
lie that she couldn’t live her dreams without sacrificing her child’s life.
That’s bullshit and we’re not buying it anymore.
Look, we believe in bodily
autonomy. We actually believe in it so strongly that we think you should be in
control of your own body from the moment it first exists. From the moment your
unique DNA is created within your mother’s womb at conception, to the moment
your heart starts beating just 18 days later.
No one can force you to choose life just like no one should be able to force
you to have an abortion. We just want you to know that we are here no matter
what you decide with the support and resources you need.
To any students on campus who have had an abortion, this display was not done to
hurt you, quite the opposite. We want you to know that we are here if you ever
need to talk. You might not regret your abortion, but if you do come talk to
us. No one should have to live a life filled with shame and guilt. We’re here
to listen and get you help, no judgment.
