Silenced Pro-Lifers Hold Counter Event at UN

By | March 14, 2024

NEW YORK, March 15 (C-Fam) The feminists at the UN who run the Commission on the Status of Women have largely shut out pro-life groups from running events during the commission.

CSW is a progressive feminist conference that promotes abortion services as essential for women’s wellbeing and prime solutions to unplanned pregnancies. This year’s official CSW event roster featured dozens a of talks normalizing and encouraging widespread access to abortion. Yet, the conference was virtually silent on the topic of supporting women to overcome the challenges that stand in the way of carrying their pregnancies to term.

In response to this hostility towards pro-life and pro-traditional-family organizations, several conservative NGOs, including the Heritage Foundation, United Families International, Family Watch International, Campaign Life Coalition, and C-Fam, the publisher of Friday Fax, hosted a parallel conference, the Conference on the State of Women and Family (CSWF).

C-Fam, along with the government of Senegal and the Canadian Campaign Life Coalition, hosted a panel called Supporting Women During Unplanned Pregnancies where speakers discussed what it takes to walk alongside women experiencing unexpected pregnancies instead of encouraging them to kill their babies.

Abby Johnson, founder of ProLove Ministries, talked about her experience working at Planned Parenthood and exposing the abortion industry for being a transactional business that sells women the product of abortion without any regard to the mental, physical, and psychological needs of the women who find themselves in unplanned pregnancies.

Johnson says ProLove Ministries offers a wide array of support services such as financial coaching and counseling. “We are supporting women right where they are, whatever their circumstance is, and that is going to make abortion unthinkable.”

Emiliy Berning, founder of Let Them Live, an organization that has helped to save over 1,000 babies from abortion talked about women’s deep need for reassurance that someone is there for them.  “We have to recognize that abortion is a symptom of a much deeper issue…[we are] making sure not just that her bills are paid but that she is set up for success. If she does find herself pregnant again, the hope is that she will be in a much better place physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually.”

Millie Lace, Founder and Director of Concepts for Truth International, talked about the need to raise awareness about the pain and grief that take place after abortion and address the glaring absence of mental health support systems for mothers who underwent abortion and regretted it. “I walked through CSW68 just yesterday and I saw poster boards about safe and legal abortions. There are no safe abortions.” She said that CSW68 should have featured testimonial boards that talked about the pain of abortion right beside the ones promoting abortion as an easy and pain-free procedure.

Allison Lind, New York City Cell Leader at CounterAct USA, challenged the youth to push against pro-abortion messaging by being “bold enough to start the conversation. What you’ll find is that you’ll build the endurance to put the conversation into action and stand firm on what you believe. Fill the gap for your generation. This is the great commission for us as Christians.”

Offering words of encouragement to pro-lifers, Lind concluded with a verse from the Bible, “the enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy, I have come so that they may have life and have it abundantly (John 10:10).”

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