By Jennifer Roback Morse, National Catholic Register, December 10, 2024
Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., is founder and president of the Ruth Institute, which helps the victims of the Sexual Revolution recover from their experiences and become advocates for positive change.
COMMENTARY: The pregnancy-care-center movement is a movement of women, by women, for women.
Over the years, I have had many encounters with the pregnancy-care-center movement. I’ve encountered them when I’ve been a speaker at pro-family and pro-life conventions. I’ve provided training for administrators and counselors of these centers. I’ve interviewed some of them for my podcast.
The totality of this experience convinces me that the pregnancy-care-center movement is an authentic “women’s movement.” I think they have more right to describe themselves as a “women’s movement” than some of the self-described “feminists.”
First: pregnancy care centers are numerically dominated by women. At most of the meetings I’ve attended, the audience of staff and volunteers is 90% women. In fact, I was recently at one meeting that was striking for its “high” percentage of men: 25%! …
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