On January 21, the day after Trump’s presidential inauguration, hundreds of thousands of women will convene in D.C for The Women’s March on Washington.
While planning for the march began before the results of the election were announced, the march’s mission statement clearly expresses chagrin towards Trump. It begins with a reference to “this past election cycle” and says they hope to “send a bold message to our new government on their first day in office, and to the world that women’s rights are human rights.”
Here, by “women’s rights,” they mean abortion rights. The Women’s March now counts Planned Parenthood, #VoteProChoice, NARAL Pro-Choice and Catholics for Choice among their list of over 100 official partners.
No conservative or pro-life organization can be found on the official list of partners for the March. The Women’s March on Washington did not respond to multiple inquiries from Red Alert.
Kelsey Hazzard, a 28 year-old activist and president of Secular Pro-Life, told Red Alert she was disappointed that the march only partnered with pro-choice organizations.
“They’ve effectively excluded half the female population by making it about abortion instead,” Hazzard said. “It’s disgusting, and so sad to see how easily abortion industry money corrupts good causes.”
Zoe Johnson, a 24 year old pro-life mother in California, echoed Hazzard’s concerns about the finances involved.
“My general thought about the Women’s March on Washington is that it’s an attempt to virtue signal, fear monger, confirm a left-wing feminist narrative, and raise money for the organizations involved” Johnson told Red Alert.
“I also think it would like to smear Republicans as anti-women in the process,” she said.
She echoed the sentiments of the Christian Post, which published an article last week titled “Pro-Life Women Not Invited to ‘Women’s March on Washington,” which noted no pro-life groups were invited to the march, and that the march is hostile to pro-life initiatives.
“They leave no room for disagreement, and are openly hostile to the pro-life position, ESPECIALLY pro-life women,” Johnson told us.
Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa, the 33 year-old pro-life founder of New Wave Feminists, thinks the march is a “brilliant idea.” Nevertheless, she stills expresses concern over how welcome pro-life women will be at the march.
“They’re still trying to convince themselves that pro-life feminists don’t exist,” De La Rosa told Red Alert. “Pro-life feminists are not going anywhere. And while we may disagree on abortion, we can certainly work together on other things such as ending human trafficking, stopping domestic abuse, ending workplace discrimination against women and mothers, and perhaps most importantly, making abortion rare… which is what [feminists] used to claim they wanted.”
