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[This article originally appeared in SALVO (www.salvomag.com<\/a>) and is reproduced here with permission. \u2013 Ed.]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thousands of women in cities across the United States marched last Saturday in the 2020 \u201cWomen\u2019s March,\u201d reported the Voice of America<\/em><\/a> and other news outlets. The point of the protests this year was narrowly specific\u2014to vote President Donald Trump out of office, and to protest the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ideological narrow-mindedness has been a hallmark of the Women\u2019s March since its inception in 2017, when it was first organized to protest the election of President Trump. And yet, according to the mission statement of the Women\u2019s March, it exists \u201cto harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change.\u201d The March claims to be committed to \u201cintersectional education on a diverse range of issues,\u201d and \u201cdismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Counter to organizers\u2019 claims of wanting \u201cnonviolent resistance\u201d and respectful inclusion, pro-life protestors present at the March this year were, once again, targeted for abuse. LifeSiteNews<\/a>\u00a0reports that Women\u2019s March protestors \u201cthrew water, sprayed paint, hurled verbal abuse, and physically attacked the Students for Life.\u201d Said a participating student, \u201cWe have seen vandalism, abuse: I was pushed, I was hit, I had my phone ripped out of my hand, I got spray painted.\u201d A pregnant woman protesting the march was told to abort her daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, contrary to its mission statement, the women of the \u201cWomen\u2019s March\u201d in no way seek to represent all women. If they did, they would celebrate the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett\u2014one of five women and two mothers ever nominated to the Supreme Court (the other mother was Ruth Bader Ginsburg).  If radical feminist ideology really cared about all women, its proponents would rejoice at the idea of a mother on the Supreme Court. After all, contrary to the best efforts of our pro-death culture, the vast majority<\/a> of women still become mothers. But instead of celebrating, feminists protest, violently, in the streets, because if Barrett is nominated, a conservative Supreme Court majority would be at least capable of overturning Roe\u2014<\/em>something even Barrett herself<\/a> has said is unlikely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are other women that feminism leaves out, of course, perhaps most obviously the women killed by abortion. Sex-selective abortion is a huge global problem. One analysis estimates<\/a> that approximately 23 million women have been killed before ever seeing the light of day, particularly in China and India, countries which now face severe female shortages. Who knows what these women may have achieved? Yet, the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute claims<\/a> that banning both sex-selective and race-selective abortions shouldn\u2019t be made illegal, because such policies don\u2019t allow women to make the decision that is best for them\u2014even if such decisions may be motivated by an explicit anti-female bias, or cultural pressure from other relatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This radical strand of feminism also omits the women who can\u2014and do\u2014achieve vast amounts with children<\/em>. It may seem counterintuitive, but research is starting to demonstrate<\/a> the ways in which children actually enhance a woman\u2019s productivity and creativity. Barrett herself is a stunning example of this, the idea that women can have incredible careers and also devote themselves unflinchingly to serving their families. But the radical feminist narrative can\u2019t include these women, because it would allow for a certain intellectual flexibility which might start saying that no, you don\u2019t have to kill your child to succeed at life, or that there are other markers to \u201csuccess\u201d besides career ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be sure, bias exists, and should be confronted. But what if a woman\u2019s ambition is to be a mom, and to stay home with her children? What if her ambition is to work part-time at something she truly loves, but remain in the home? (Both Pew and Gallup polls<\/a> continue to show that fewer women are preferring full-time to part-time work, when circumstances allow; recent studies also demonstrate that female doctors and lawyers, particularly those with dependent children, want<\/em> to work part-time.) Is there room in modern feminism for what women actually want?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her book\u00a0Irreversible Damage<\/em><\/a>, Abigail Shrier writes in the closing chapter, \u201cWe must stop pathologizing girlhood,\u201d something she believes is leading teenage girls to identify as \u201ctransgender\u201d in staggering percentages. Modern feminism pathologizes womanhood, by insisting on one, pro-death approach to femaleness. A \u201cwoman\u201d is pro-choice, pro-Biden, pro-\u201creproductive rights\u201d (whatever that term means), and wants to climb the corporate ladder at whatever cost necessary. Women who try to be \u201cfeminist\u201d in any other way\u2014including embracing the capacity for pregnancy and childbirth\u2014don\u2019t have a place at the so-called Women\u2019s March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[This article originally appeared in SALVO (www.salvomag.com) and is reproduced here with permission. \u2013 Ed.] Thousands of women in cities across the United States marched last Saturday in the 2020 \u201cWomen\u2019s March,\u201d reported the Voice of America and other news outlets. 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