{"id":26594,"date":"2013-02-03T01:47:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T06:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=26594"},"modified":"2013-02-04T09:06:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T14:06:11","slug":"fish-dont-need-bicycles-but-we-need-men-to-speak-against-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fish-dont-need-bicycles-but-we-need-men-to-speak-against-abortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish don\u2019t need bicycles, but we need men to speak against abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26755\" alt=\"fish-bike\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fish-bike-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fish-bike-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/fish-bike.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Feminist Gloria\u00a0Steinem\u00a0made this dreadful statement <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/2020\/story?id=124030&amp;page=1\">popular<\/a>: \u201cA woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.\u201d Not only is the phrase insulting and downright mean, but it\u2019s also a blatant lie. Standing up for the rights of women is important. Women have been underpaid, abused, overlooked, and devalued. Women need protection and support. However, degrading men should never be part of the process of empowering women.<\/p>\n<p>Men are our fathers, brothers, uncles, and cousins. They\u2019re our coaches, teachers, leaders, and heroes. Men fight battles overseas, endure long hours in Corporate America, and struggle to provide food for their children. Fathers walk us down the aisle, and husbands hug us when we need it most.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that God has placed in men an innate desire to protect, defend, and provide for those they love. There\u2019s a reason why men flock to the theater to see the latest Tom Cruise flick. Of course, guys like the fast cars and explosions. Yet I think there is something more to the story. Perhaps inside every man is a need to win a war and rescue a maiden.<\/p>\n<p>In the height of radical feminism, men received the message that they were not needed. That\u2019s an extremely damaging message for the male heart. Women told men, \u201cI don\u2019t want you open my door, \u00a0&#8220;I can pay for my own meal.\u201d Later, the worst saying of all became \u201cIt\u2019s <em>my<\/em> body, <em>my<\/em> choice!&#8221; In other words, women said, \u201cShut up and sit down cause I know what&#8217;s best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13103 alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 5px;\" alt=\"man-silent-tape\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/man-silent-tape-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/man-silent-tape-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/man-silent-tape.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When we talk about abortion, some men feel they\u00a0shouldn&#8217;t\u00a0be in the discussion. Men have believed the lie that abortion is a \u201cwomen\u2019s\u201d issue. Some men believe that even if they have something to say, it\u2019s not their place to say it. This must change. Some of the most influential pro-life voices I know are men. Lou Engle, Will Ford, Walter Hoye, Ryan Bomberger, and many others have influenced thousands to take a stand for the lives of the unborn.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-life community was\u00a0disheartened\u00a0when MSNBC host Tour\u00e9 Neblett publicly\u00a0<a href=\"\/news\/cads-for-choice-msnbc-host-explains-how-abortion-helped-him-ditch-commitment\/\">said<\/a> abortion was a good choice for him. Tour\u00e9 admitted to aborting a child with a woman he said was not \u201cthe one.\u201d Anti-abortion activist and post-abortive father Matthew Clinger responded to Tour\u00e9\u2019s statement. He boldly\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/from-one-post-abortive-man-to-another-a-response-to-msnbcs-toure-neblett\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Men, hear me.\u00a0This is one of the root problems of abortion: disrespectful, childish men who\u00a0couldn&#8217;t\u00a0truthfully admit, &#8216;I know we are not going to get married, but let\u2019s have sex and possibly conceive a child that neither of us are ready for.&#8217;\u00a0Because of abortion, we act as if pregnancy is as big of a deal as getting a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifesitenews.com\/news\/from-one-post-abortive-man-to-another-a-response-to-msnbcs-toure-neblett\">cold<\/a>\u00a0or spraining an ankle.\u00a0<em>So prideful. So cavalier\u2026<\/em> Lesson one for our nation:\u00a0<strong>Abortion will end when boys can become MEN who respect women enough to not have sex with them until they are in a<\/strong><b>\u00a0<\/b><em><b>real<\/b><\/em><strong>\u00a0\u201ccommitted\u201d relationship\u2026called marriage.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I admire Matt\u2019s stand and hope that other men will follow his example. Matt\u2019s voice for life came out of his own painful experiences. He shares his story of abortion on his<a href=\"http:\/\/matthewclinger.com\/\">\u00a0blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We became pregnant 3 months into our relationship. Kelly and I both grew up attending church and knew how our parents felt about sex outside of marriage, so that seemed to leave very few options for us. Kelly convinced herself she had to have an abortion so that we could try and hide what honestly our parents already knew was going on. Her friend took her to have the abortion, and we never discussed it. Within one month, however, we found ourselves pregnant again, and we aborted the second child just as quickly to hide our shame. This time, I took her to the clinic.\u00a0 As I sat there in the waiting room, I could hear crying and saw women come out with tears running down their faces.\u00a0 This scared me because I was told \u201cthis was just a small procedure and it wouldn\u2019t hurt Kelly or the tissue at all.\u201d\u00a0 In my heart,\u00a0I knew this was a baby, not tissue.\u00a0 As Kelly came out, she was groggy and looked to be in a lot of pain, which made me furious about the lies they told me.\u00a0 As we drove home, neither of us said a thing.\u00a0 We sat in silence as I contemplated our decision.\u00a0 Sadly, because of my inability to be a man, I put it all aside and we went on with our relationship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Matt continues..<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kelly and I eventually got married, but many years after the abortions I realized I was in pain.\u00a0 My inability to protect those I was entrusted to care for created a domino effect of bad choices.\u00a0 I struggled with how to be a man and husband because I had become like Adam in my silence.\u00a0 I self-medicated my pain with pornography and alcohol and searched for ways to find my voice when really what I needed to hear was the voice of God. I was a broken man with a broken wife, two children in heaven, and was trying to pick up the pieces of what my indifference had done. I watched Kelly find healing from the abortions and eventually decided I needed help too. The healing process made me realize that I was meant to be a Daddy to those two children and that my silence never allowed me to be that for them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thankfully, Matt Clinger is no longer silent. He and wife Kelly are\u00a0committed\u00a0anti-abortion activists. Matt is calling forth post-abortive fathers to raise their voices. It\u2019s clear that abortion hurts men. It\u2019s time to hear the stories of men who regret the choices they made. We need to see their tears and understand their pain.<\/p>\n<p>Men, you were made to protect and defend the most innocent among us. So proudly stand up and be warriors for life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to stand up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":26755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fish don\u2019t need bicycles, but we need men to speak against abortion - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/fish-dont-need-bicycles-but-we-need-men-to-speak-against-abortion\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fish don\u2019t need bicycles, but we need men to speak against abortion - 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