Thoughts after yesterday's #BansOffOurBodies march: the current rhetoric aligned with the pro-abortion movement is overwhelmingly focused on self. I. Me. My body. My choice. My rights. My decision. All of it is completely focused on serving one's self before anyone else.
This is not new, of course: we've seen this type of rhetoric for a long time now. But after meeting multiple women this week (one became pregnant at 14) who chose to "die to self" and place their baby before their own needs, this obsession with self only stands out more strongly
This little lady is alive because her mother, who told me that she became pregnant at 14, was courageous enough to face her high school world as a teen mom and have her child. She’s a prolific rodeo competitor, so her daughter loves horses too 🐎 
It's very hard not to respect self-sacrifice/laying down one's life for others, whether it be physically or metaphorically. Historically, this has been considered one of the greatest things that a mortal man can do.
That willingness to die to self contrasts so sharply with the raucous demands to prioritize ME above every other.
We know there are echo chambers on both sides. But it seems that big parts of our culture have forgotten or never learned the value in looking past ourselves. And that suggests, to me at least, that there is a serious thirst for exposure to self-sacrifice and self-martyrdom.
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