How the Women’s Movement Started
Motherhood is a divine privilege that must be protected because our existence depends on women! Women are the bearers of life. They have a womb and are biologically designed to nourish and nurture new life, giving birth to the world.
The founders of the women’s movement wanted to be admired and respected for their womanhood and their equal brain matter. They did not say that to be equal to men, women must reject their femininity. They never envisioned a world where the right to vote would be displaced with the slavery of abortion, and worse, sugar-coated to look like freedom, autonomy, and equality – packaged and sold as “women’s reproductive healthcare.”
Abortion: A Man’s Control Over Women
No! Women are being sold down the river, just like the enslaved people before them. Abortion is man’s ultimate control over a woman’s ability to birth and raise children. The women of Betty Friedan’s generation never realized men were and still are dictating who has children and who does not. Betty herself was steered off course by journalist and friend Larry Lader, who convinced Betty his agenda – overpopulation – could sell abortion. It was Lader who developed the language: A woman should have the right to control her own body. The women’s movement was hijacked by a white man whose agenda was population control.
Preserving Authentic Gender Equality
To be a woman doesn’t mean that every woman should become a mother, nor should every man become a father. Gender defines biologically who we are and who we are not. Authentic gender equality should respect and protect what makes women different. But this isn’t happening.
Gender Equality Challenges
Today, gender equality is being defined as being one and the same, when biologically, we know this is not true. The age of gender fluidity is exploiting women. Recently, three high school track stars from Connecticut (biologically female) sued because two transgender students, identifying as girls but with male anatomy, deprived the girls of honors and opportunities for scholarships. Can you guess who is being vilified? … The girls.
What has been misleading in the women’s movement is a false and unrealistic belief that a woman can do everything a man does. That very notion diminishes women worldwide. Sex selection, also known as gendercide, is happening. It is estimated that roughly 200 million baby girls have been intentionally aborted – why?… because they are girls.
Gendercide affects the sex ratio in society. A surplus of men causes violent social consequences. When there aren’t enough women to go around, women become an underclass. This puts them at risk of being stolen or sold into prostitution or marriage.
The late Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016), housewife, mother of six, lawyer, and activist, may be best known for exposing ERA ratification for what it really is and bringing it down. ERA ratification was initially thought to be a symbolic bipartisan piece of legislation that would sail on through became a political lightning rod, yet to be ratified.
Phyllis Schlafly’s Legacy
Phyllis Schlafly exposed the problems, took action, and engaged a grass-roots movement made up of inexperienced and unlikely activists: “Housewives,” as she explained, who “didn’t even know where their state capitol was.”
She founded STOP ERA, an acronym for Stop Taking Our Privileges, exposing the unintended consequences ratification posed: The stripping of gender roles, alimony, child custody, sexual assault protection, and single-sex restrooms, leading to taxpayer-funded abortions and the forced military draft of women. In fact, the ERA will wipe out laws already in place that protect women’s unique needs.
The ERA Initiative: Unveiling the Truth
We are seeing the problems unfold right now when biological men are transgender to women and rob biological women of sports recognition, titles, and scholarships. We see the risks to biological women when men choose to identify as women and gain access to women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, and female dormitories. ERA ratification doesn’t do what it is supposed to do: Protect Women for who they are and what their gender is designed to do – nurture, protect, and give the world new life. The women’s movement and ERA have both been hijacked.
Efforts to ratify the ERA were taken up again in 2019. “Equal Rights” sounds so fair and equitable, doesn’t it? Don’t be fooled, though; the ERA is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, and the new ERA ratification initiative should be dubbed Everything Related to Abortion.
Feminist for Life’s Perspective
Feminist for Life, President Serrin Foster believes that women deserve so much better, and something is seriously wrong when abortion (under the auspices of women’s reproductive healthcare) is prescribed to women who find themselves unexpectedly pregnant, overwhelmed, and lacking in support and resources. “Not only must we do better; women deserve better.”
We must ensure that ERA is not ratified in Maine, that biological women can compete fairly in women’s sports, and that women facing unplanned pregnancy have the support and resources to completely know all their choices.
Maine Right to Life believes we should follow the lead of the late Phyllis Schlafly and engage Maine citizens to not only find their way to the State Capitol but engage with their local lawmakers and ultimately change laws!