And the Walls Came Crashing Down.

"Abortion rights supporters watch this latest mobilization warily: If anecdotes from grieving women can move the Supreme Court, what will testimony about men's pain accomplish? 'They can potentially shift the entire debate,' said Marjorie Signer of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, an interfaith group that supports abortion rights." -- From "Changing Abortion's Pronoun" by Stephanie Simon, Los Angeles Times, January 7, 2008

A thoughtful pro-lifer, in commenting on Stephanie Simon's careful news story, observed that it's not so much about changing abortion's pronoun but "adding one to the abortion equation." And in those six words he captured why the Abortion Establishment is so dismayed by the ultimate politically incorrect subject: men grieving over the loss of their unborn children.

For most of the past 35 years, the dogma that abortion is a "woman's issue" has reigned, making a real discussion exceedingly difficult. But that is gradually changing, as was clear from the powerful workshop given by marriage and family therapist Greg Hasek and attorney David Wemhoff at NRLC 2008.

When Hasek and Wemhoff first teamed up at the 2004 NRL Convention, there was for all practical purposes no national dialogue over men and abortion. But having just completed their fifth tag-team workshop, they assured their audience that the voices of men, long muted, are beginning to be heard.

Just last November 170 participants from 28 states and 9 countries gathered in San Francisco for the first ever international event on the topic of men and abortion. Building on that momentum, the National Office for Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing is organizing a second "Reclaiming Fatherhood" Conference September 8 and 9 in Chicago.

Early on in the NRLC workshop Hasek dealt with the most common criticism. If there are all that many men suffering from post-abortion symptoms and awash in grief and suffering, why aren't counselors seeing them? He calmly pointed out that, in general, men don't go to counseling ...