Last Friday, my husband and I traveled with our three young children, ages 6, 5 and 3, to attend the March for Life in Washington, D.C. Having marched many times in the past in hopes that one day Roe v. Wade would be overturned, this trip was an expression of gratitude. It was also a meaningful way to honor our twin embryos who I miscarried that same weekend one year ago, by standing up for the life of every child in the womb.
Just as significant to me was the opportunity to stand up for women and girls; women like Lucy, a fellow marcher we encountered who herself has suffered an abortion. Peace begins in the womb.
For 50 years, our society has depended on the violence of abortion as a solution to a variety of problems faced by women in crisis. Women deserve better than abortion. Thanks to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, we are free to protect in law innocent children living and growing in their mothers’ wombs. The absence of such laws fails women, sending the implicit message, “You take care of it. Your child isn’t worth anything anyway.”
Marie Palmer
Unity