Pro-life: Faith in Fatherhood OR Feminism

Unfortunately, it has become fashionable in the pro-life movement to make men a target. I am 100% pro-life, and I am disheartened by this tendency in recent years to presume that when abortion occurs, the father of the baby must be miscast in the role of a ‘coercer’ or a ‘deserter’.

To that end, false statistics are propagated, such as the claim that 64% of abortions are ‘coerced’. Of the million+ times that abortion happens in America each year, how many cases were reviewed to create this false statistic? A very small percentage? The responses gathered cannot be reasonably extrapolated to the million+ incidences of abortion in America each year. Additionally, the subjectivity inherent to the responses that were gathered precludes them from being portrayed, with even the most remote accuracy, as statements of fact.

Do the feminists who advocate abortion provide an eager audience to pro-lifers miscasting the father of the baby as the villain of the story in cases where abortion happens? Of course, blaming men in general as the cause of every challenge is a knee-jerk reflex with them.

But does that poison solidarity of male-bashing help the pro-life cause? No, quite the opposite. It does incalculably tremendous damage to the pro-life cause on at least three counts:

1. It allows an individual to carefreely sign on the dotted line for an abortion at the local Planned Parenthood clinic while simultaneously blaming somebody else for it.

2. It buys into the #1 selling point for abortion, which is the presumption that the decision to abort a baby’s life arises from unfortunate personal circumstances. This is false, but the general public buying it is the #1 reason why they look the other way as abortion continues.

3. It embraces the feminist misandry in which men are stereotyped as evil by default, and thus the pre-born baby daughters and sons of men are fatally dehumanized by extension. That is the ideological core of the pro-abortion movement. Correspondingly, pro-lifers scapegoating the father of each baby killed as a ‘coercer’ or ‘deserter’ has the deadly effect of fueling the very feminist ideology that results in abortion in the first place.

The Right to Life movement needs to go the exact opposite direction: towards the light of faith in fatherhood. The path for doing so is drawn right here.