On Mother’s Day, Let’s Celebrate the True Strength and Empowerment Motherhood Brings

At just 11 years old, I watched as a midwife cared for my mother and delivered my baby sister. A spark burst into a flame inside of me, and I knew from that moment on that I wanted to be a part of the beauty and wonder of birth and be a mother myself one day.

One of the most rewarding aspects of my now almost 40-year career as a nurse and a midwife has been seeing women tap into their truest potential as they become mothers.

Unfortunately, many women today are being misled by the false notion that motherhood is too much for them to handle and that abortion is their pathway to empowerment.

Even the centuries-old practice of midwifery has fallen prey to this misguided notion.

In truth, we are failing women by telling them that abortion is their only option—or that it is empowering. Women deserve to know that abortion doesn’t fulfill the promises of going back to what you were before, nor does it solve life’s problems.

We limit women’s true power and potential by pushing the notion that power can only come externally and that ending the life inside of them can help them find it.

This Mother’s Day, we should recommit to encouraging women to work with their bodies, instead of against them, by offering them holistic medical care instead of the one-size-fits-all “solution” of abortion.

Thankfully, there are programs out there that can help women discover the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual transformation of motherhood.

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