What does “Trust Women” Mean To You?

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In Sweet Agony on January 22, 2010 at 6:27 am

Today is NARAL’s Blog for Choice Day, and I will explain what “Trust Women,” the phrase for pro-choicers everywhere, means to me.
Last year, on Saturday mornings as I walked into work, a building which was in between an anti-choice, deceptive “Crisis Pregnancy Center” and a Planned Parenthood, I would witness the crowd of (mostly men) protesters hound the patients as they tried to get into the PP. I saw how the protesters tried to yell loud enough to penetrate the PP escort’s shielding umbrellas. I saw young men walking in circles with their rosaries, trying to make some sort of righteous statement of their all-holy, open showcase of prayer (which, last time I checked, Jesus seriously looked down upon?) See Matthew 6:5-6:
Matthew 6:5-6: “And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men….when thou prayest, enter into thy closet and when thou has shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret….”
These people aren’t trying to help. They aren’t doing the will of God, either. They waste their time by yelling swear words, awful derogatory names, flashing their explicit fetus posters, bringing their own children to such a situation, twisting the words of God, when will they learn?
When I picked up my escorting vest, I joined the team of others who really, Trust Women. The fact that such phrase is needed is insane to me- is it suppose to be sarcastic? ‘trust half of the worlds’ population’? Unfortunately, it is not sarcastic. There are people out there who really believe their opinion is the law of the land, the moral standard everyone must follow, the most superior.
Trusting women means that whether one would or wouldn’t undergo this common medical procedure, one believes that there are a million reasons that women do get abortions and one ought not control another’s body as a slave to say what she can or cannot do with it.