The Attack on Mothers
March 10, 2024 | Alton, IL
by Anne Schlafly, Chairman, Eagle Forum
Instead of honoring and respecting mothers, as commanded in the Bible, the current culture is demeaning and undermining mothers.
When men pretend to be women, they are objectifying and stereotyping women. To be a woman is not to put on a costume. These caricatures of women as all-hair and all-nails are superficial spoofs of women.
When men have children without women, they are diminishing the lives of these children who will never be able to experience a mother’s love. Children without mothers can never understand Mother’s Day. A two-parent family is different from a mother-and-a-father family. The role of mother cannot be randomly assigned to a parent.
When pornographic materials are used in schools, then children learn to be sexual objects. Sexual experimentation is never love but is exploitation. Pornography abuses all women and girls.
When males are interchangeable with females in all areas, then women are erased. Women lose when men invade female spaces. Men and boys who take athletic awards from females should be embarrassed that they are cheating and winning a rigged competition.
When the media replace “mother” with phrases like “pregnant people” or “birthing person,” they are purposely insulting mothers by reducing the role of mothers to only reproduction. Mothers and mothering are so much more than body parts.
The truth is that only females can be mothers. The role of motherhood is separate and distinct from the role of fatherhood. On this special day, a date set aside to celebrate mothers, we celebrate women who are mothers.
Biology is truth. Some Democrats use the phrase “my truth” to explain their opinions. “My truth” is one person’s fantasy. There is no such thing as “my truth;” there are only truth and lies. When an activist claims “my truth,” you know that the activist knowingly denies the truth.
These multiple attacks on motherhood are peddling a big lie. The purpose of this big lie is to erase women, undermine mothers, and sow chaos in society.
On this Mother’s Day, I remember and honor my mother, Phyllis Schlafly. She was pregnant with me, she gave birth to me, she breast-fed me, she changed my diapers, she spanked me, she soothed my tears. My mother gave me comfort and joy. My mother taught me to walk, to read, to write, to add, to dress, to cook, to clean, to study, to swim, to drive, to flirt, to love, and then she sent me on my way as an adult.
On this Mother’s Day, I am grateful that I had a mother and I was blessed with my mother’s love. I am sorry for any child who only has a “birthing person.”
Anne Schlafly is Chairman of Eagle Forum and has served on Eagle Forum boards of directors since 2008. She is the daughter of Eagle Forum’s founder, Phyllis Schlafly.