Men are raising awareness that they can, and should, have a voice on abortion.
WASHINGTON—Carlos Lamoutte and GianLuca Pasquotto listened intently as Vice President JD Vance spoke to a crowd of tens of thousands gathered on the National Mall Jan. 24 for the 52nd National March for Life.
The seniors at Jesuit High School, an all-boys Catholic school in Tampa, Florida, traveled to the nation’s capital with more than 45 fellow members of the school’s pro-life club, which began sending students to the March for Life more than a decade ago.
But they were just a fraction of the thousands of young men from elementary schools, high schools, colleges, and seminaries across the country gathered in the nation’s capital to make their voices heard.
Those young men were joined by little boys walking hand-in-hand with their fathers and mothers and older men bearing signs that said things such as, “Abortion is Failed Manhood” and “Men Regret Lost Fatherhood.”
Their presence at the march, along with male leaders such as Vance, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), exemplified their determination to hold fast to their beliefs. President Donald Trump also shared a video message: “We will again stand proudly for families and for life.”
Ryder Wittman, 20, a senior at Colorado Christian University, attended the march. “I think a lot of guys aren’t even aware that they can be part of this,” he said.
He said his friends and peers have told him, “’Oh, I didn’t know I could have an opinion about that. I didn’t know there was anything I could do. I thought that was a female thing.’”
While volunteering at a pregnancy center in Denver, Wittman said he comes face to face with young men who feel voiceless over an unplanned pregnancy, even when their girlfriends want them to speak up.
“A lot of guys come in and they’re my age, you know, they’re 19, 20, 21, and, you know, the mentality they’re told is ‘I can’t have an opinion on this,’” he told The Epoch Times.
By T.J. Muscaro
