Women's March to Oppose Trump Drops Pro-Life Group, Adds Something Else

The pro-woman/anti-Trump march planned for the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration is going to be a true cavalcade of feminazi angst.

What began with one stampy-footed feminist in Hawaii, by the name of Teresa Shook, who started a Facebook event after Trump’s electoral win, quickly went viral.

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It lit a fire under every feminist group that viewed a Trump presidency as an endorsement of misogyny.

The event grew quickly, adding various groups, as well as experienced event organizers, in order to pull things together.

Unfortunately, as was pointed out by Amelia Hamilton yesterday, not all feminist groups are the same, nor is this celebration of empowered women a celebration of all women.

New Wave Feminists is a group of pro-life feminists who were originally listed as partners in the march.

That was a bit of confusion, for sure.

Event organizers apparently saw the word “feminists” in the name and immediately thought the group a fit, but once they found that NWF was pro-life, they were quickly dropped from the event flyers.

As pointed out on Roll Call:

After facing objections to an anti-abortion group called New Wave Feminists being included as a partner to the march, organizers removed it Monday and said its inclusion had been a “mistake.”

Linda Sarsour, co-chairwoman of the march clarified the organization’s position, saying, “If you want to come to the march you are coming with the understanding that you respect a woman’s right to choose.” This rankled anti-abortion groups that consider themselves feminist, and though march organizers have not backed off, some say they will still attend.

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The New Wave Feminists probably could have saved themselves that headache, had they only bothered to take note of the honorary co-chairs of the event (Gloria Steinem and Harry Belafonte), and the sponsors of the event (the ACLU, Emily’s List, and Planned Parenthood).

Indeed, this march is shaping up to have far less to do with protesting Trump and far more to do with celebrating moral decay and lack of personal responsibility.

Need more proof?

Well, consider who is being added, even as the pro-life group was dropped –

Sex Workers Rights Alliance (or some such nonsense).

Right to life = bad.

Right to allow women’s bodies to be used as commodities = good.

The controversy has not cooled, either, as organizers of the event are facing questions, as to their support of the rights of sex workers.

A statement supporting the rights of sex workers was removed from the event platform, but was quickly added back, after a bit of a dust up online.

After public outcry after the earlier statement was removed, the phrase “We stand in solidarity with the sex workers’ rights movement” reappeared in the document, but organizers of the march made no public comment on the reasons for removing it or reinstating it.

Writer and transgender rights activist Janet Mock said Tuesday that she wrote the statement in the platform.

“I cannot speak to the internal conflicts at the Women’s March that have led to the erasure of the line I wrote for our collective vision but I have been assured that the line will remain in OUR document,” she wrote.

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The pro-life group, NWF, have stated that they still intend to show up and march, but it says a lot about the intent of the organizers.

This is just one more push over the slippery slope of moral relativism.

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