Why this Catholic will not join the March for Life
By: Jon O'Brien
(Jon O’Brien is president of Catholics for Choice)
January 26, 2017 Updated: January 26, 2017 at 4:05 pm
(RNS) Some groups that identify as anti-abortion feminists created a small hullabaloo at the post-inaugural Women’s March. They say it was wrong to exclude them just because they disagree with the organizers on a key plank — that a woman has the right to choose an abortion, follow her own conscience and be trusted to decide whether to continue or end a pregnancy.
One could have taken their complaints as a cynical attempt by anti-abortion groups to insert themselves into a successful storyline of over 3 million marching around the country for a set of values and beliefs on the side of women’s rights.
If you believe opposing abortion is not anathema to caring about the welfare of women, then you also may think that perhaps on some ideological level those anti-abortion activists should have joined in the march.
On Friday (Jan. 27), thousands will gather on the National Mall for the 44th National March for Life. Considering I am not against life and, in fact, quite in awe of it, you may think that I, too, would be clamoring to join.
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