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by Petra Wallenmeyer, J. C. Beichner
Human Defense Initiative
What defines an expert? Teen Vogue recently published a piece clearly stating young women ages 17-24 are experts when it comes to abortion and reproductive rights. Yet expertise in a subject or specific field, especially when it comes to your physical and mental health and the life of a child, deserves a second opinion. Here is ours.
Merely experiencing an event does not make you an expert on the event. Experts are, by general definition, people who display special skills or knowledge in a specific area, domain, or subject. Expertise is not developed overnight. Knowledge, wisdom, and tenure come from years of study, life experience, reflection, and truth-seeking.
Free expression and the cult of personality developed and exploited by the mainstream media, Planned Parenthood, and those seeking leverage for political expediency do not make experts.
Youth Testify, as featured in the aforementioned article, seeks to create activists of young girls, most under the age of 18 years old, who recently had abortions (some more than one), before they even have an opportunity to absorb and process their experience.
Youth Testify is trying to stretch the definition of “expert.” Not only are they trying to convince people that teens and young adults are experts based on limited experience alone, but they are also trying to stretch experience on a very specific event—abortion—into expertise on a very broad topic—reproductive health. In any definition or connotation of the word “expert,” this attempt is unconvincing at best and harmful at worst.
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The Human Defense Initiative's mission is to offer an engaging platform that empowers individuals to be a voice for life to those without one.
Use this link to read the history of this organization and meet their staff.
by Skyler Lee
Human Defense Initiative
Although rewarding, being a leader of a pro-life group can be stressful and sometimes the idea of planning meeting topics or activities can leave leaders not knowing where to start. We have all been there. Whether you are the President of the group or simply trying to think of fun suggestions to get people more involved, you may need help coming up with fun projects.
So here are 25 of my favorites which are sure to get your members excited about getting involved in the pro-life movement.
The Human Defense Initiative's mission is to offer an engaging platform that empowers individuals to be a voice for life to those without one.
Use this link to read the history of this organization and meet their staff.
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by Jael Ridley
Human Defense Initiative
Dear Michelle Wolf,
I opened Twitter this week, expecting to see the usual doom and gloom and behold, you topped all of it. There was no escaping the trending #SaluteToAbortion, despite all of the other more important headlines. And as much as I tried to suppress my curiosity, I eventually caved and watched your 5 minute segment on why women should get an abortion. Needless to say, I have a few words for you.
You are not pro-choice. You are pro-abortion. If you were truly pro-choice, you would not be endorsing abortion. You would not be literally encouraging women to endure this harmful procedure.
Contrary to many pro-choice individuals, you obviously do not believe abortion is in any way an unfortunate or last-resort situation. In fact, you think it should be saluted, championed, and celebrated. You do not even try hiding your adoration for abortion. It is a sacrament to you. It is empowering.
From a pro-life standpoint, this is, of course, disgusting. However, imagine the feelings of those who have been hurt by abortion listening to you trivialize their most traumatic, painful experience and compare it to a McDonald’s dollar menu item. I assume you did not think of them, only the laughs you would garner from those as insensitive as you.
I know you are busy belittling women and creating harmful “comedy,” but, if only for a minute, I ask you to step out of your bubble and genuinely reflect on what you are saying.
Regardless of whether we are pro-choice or pro-life, we must be aware abortion is not a fun little event every woman should experience. It is not something women should have on their bucket lists in order to embrace their power to “control life” as you say. It is disgraceful and disrespectful of you to treat it as such. By the way, we as women cannot and do not control life. We cannot bestow upon ourselves the false authority to dictate whether a life continues or ends.
Before, the pro-choice crowd made a point of stating they were not pro-abortion. They recognized abortion is unwanted. They said, “safe, legal, rare,” knowing it is not something which should be celebrated and had haphazardly. They recognized the effects it can have on women, mentally, emotionally, and physically. They understood “back alleys,” “coat hangers,” and “stairs” were a very painful reality for some women and not some flippant punchline.
You are proof the shift from “safe, legal, rare” to “abortion on demand” and “shout your abortion” is rooted in an immoral, inhumane, destructive love for abortion. Tell me again which side is anti-woman?
You use your platform to spew the rally cry of the pro-abort movement, gathering together others who have the same seared conscience as you. Creating this false narrative unless you get an abortion, you are not woman enough. Unless you are the 1 in 4, you are essentially doing womanhood wrong.
One final note: I say shame on you wrapping your pro-abortion agenda in the very flag that has been the lifeline for millions. How dare you shout “God bless abortion! And God bless America!” in the same breath. America has always been the lighthouse for those in search of a better life, and your continual attempts at marring that light with the pro-abortion agenda is nothing but anti-human. Perpetuating the idea of discarding those not wanted makes us no different than any other country and nothing short of barbaric. What hope do we offer then?
Michelle, you will most likely never see this. Regardless, I still felt it necessary to call out your hypocrisy. You are not pro-woman, and you are not pro-choice. You are only pro-Michelle and pro-abortion.
Sincerely,
Righteous Indignation
The Human Defense Initiative's mission is to offer an engaging platform that empowers individuals to be a voice for life to those without one.
Use this link to read the history of this organization and meet their staff.
