I'm all for women who stand up to be heard but I think it's obvious there's a dearth of pro-life women among the spouses and candidates who comprise the leadership of the GOP. That's a pity. No question but what the personal witness of women can be particularly effective for hooking the hopelessly subjective and bringing them round to receptivity, even, of the stronger arguments which make for a consistent defense of the inviolable and uniquely human Right to Life.
And we're definitely agreed that the witness of women who've opted to keep their children conceived by rape or who are speaking out as a means to repent of a deed they regret with all their heart is vital. They teach a lesson of individual strength and personal liberty, hope and Human Choice that puts all the empty empowerment language of the feminazis and calculated materialist appeals of deathists to shame.
But I still maintain men are the key. Even if women come to understand that abortion is not the answer, they still run the risk of embracing the State's "Right" to deny a child a relationship with his father (save for the child support with which the State hedges its bet the woman will make the right Choice).
For the State knows as well as I that it is the family, not the individual, which is the basis of society and the model on which all successful -- and strong -- human communities and states are based. To balkanize the right to life at the point of abortion as either a "Women's" issue or an issue best left to each individual's "personal values" serves only to further dehumanize we "Living" along with the unborn "potential people". It deconstructs the natural family bonds between man and woman, father and child, on which hang our independence from the state.
It's for these reasons I feel it particularly vital that men not be shut out of the debate and that we resist the urge to concede the war in order to better package our battles.