We are strong

I know what I don't want to be part of. I do not want to be part of a culture of death. I do not want to stand face to face with a woman who tells me she had no choice but to visit with someone who believed her only path to wholeness was to rip her baby from her womb and not have been able to save her from that horror.
I know I want to be about empowerment and sharing with woman the very strength we possess that is being stolen and manipulated into, "our strength is in freedom" and that kind of freedom being referred to is childless or lives only in the life with children of intention.
I beg to ask how many woman have willed their conception? How many women have said this month of September is the month that agrees with my schedule and subsequently in June have birthed their purposeful child?
If woman could recognize the gift of motherhood and stand to defend the lives of their children in any case, yes even in the case of rape, can you imagine the women we would be? Strong, vivacious, brilliant, defiant even. I know I want to be joined with women who will stand for their rights. The right to no longer be victimized by a culture that says we are only worthy when we are weak. A culture that says we are too weak to birth, too weak to break up, too weak to survive,too weak to tell our parents, too weak to give our child the gift of adoption, too weak to let anyone know. Why? Why do our children have to die?