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Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth. For the Coulson Center, I'm John Stonestreet. According to the website shoutyourabortion.com yes, that is a real website. Women who want children are the abnormal ones. For example, take Sid, who identified herself as a convert to Catholicism. She wrote, thanks to my abortion, I will have a future. Another woman wrote, abortion gave me a chance to focus on my own life. An anonymous college student said this, my future was worth more than just a vessel to produce new life. She then compared her baby to a tumor that was standing between her and her career. This website is among the many legacies of a society now well into its fourth wave of feminism. In this context, many women see the procreative design of their bodies as a problem to be avoided or solved, but not a gift of God. And between that consistent drumbeat and the celebrity voices who equate abortion with mercy, or who insist life without marriage and children is better despite overwhelming research that suggests otherwise, it's no wonder that over 1 million women chose to end the life of their baby last year. Or that 40% of young women think they should hold off having a baby until their career is established. Or that one fifth of women say they would forego kids altogether for their career. Many young women simply believe that they will be happier if they remain single and without kids. And yet, study after study continues to show that that the happiest people on average in America are women who are married with children. In other words, there's an incredible gap between perception and reality in this space. God designed humans for relationships. For most, that will eventually mean marriage to women. He gave the design and capacity to be childbearers and mothers, uniquely equipping their bodies, their hearts, their minds to be life givers. In this way, Scripture says that there's joy in following the precepts of the Lord and that these precepts align with God's work in creation. If all that's true, then we ought to expect that living out God's design will, in the end, bring happiness. God's burden is, after all, light, Jesus said. The fundamental ideas of the feminist movement, at least in its current form, is in direct contrast to all of that. Its adherents even find it necessary to rewrite the lives of historical figures to align with their view. Thus, the new and improved Lady Jane Grey is now a power driven vixen who did not need a man. And even Jane Austen apparently envisioned a non binary society for historical revisionists. Historical figures can only be considered great if they have rejected repressive narratives about womenhood, narratives that value faith, family, and especially men. This kind of feminism betrays women, and it's especially dismissive of the many women who face infertility or who desire marriage and family in this cultural moment that no longer values either and somehow cannot seem to find it. Though a woman's value is not determined by marital or maternal status, who God designed woman to be can neither be erased nor can it be replaced by some progressive vision of so called freedom, careerism, or sexual autonomy. The truth about women is in reality far more radical than the ideas that are so dominant in this current cultural moment. Women are uniquely and wonderfully different from men. It should not be thought weird for women to desire to give life and then to nurture and care for it. Women did this for Jesus throughout his life. The Bible portrays women as prophets, as judges, as business women, but also in almost nearly every book of scripture, as mothers and wives. It's often said that being a wife and a mother are the highest calling for women. That is not true. Glorifying God in whatever role or stage of life you are in is the highest calling of all image bearers. We are to do that in whatever station that God has placed us in, and we are to do it as male or female, because that's how God made us to bear his image. That's the only way God created us to live. Too many women have been told to fear the design that God blessed them with or to somehow fight it in the name of freedom in our moment. This has undermined the sacred roles granted to women within families. That's a tragedy because God's design for his image bearers, male and female, is, as scripture says, very good for the Colson Center. I'm John Stonestreet with Breakpoint. A special thank you today to Tim of Virginia. Thanks for being a monthly partner of the Colson center and helping to make this episode of Breakpoint possible. For more resources like this one, Visit us@breakpoint.org hi, this is John Stonestreet and I want to invite you to join us for the next Breakpoint forum live in Greenville, South Carolina, Thursday, April 3rd. Joining me will be Dr. Andrew Walker and Dr. Katie McCoy. We'll be talking about the possibility of Christians leading a new sexual revolution by living as image bearers, male and female. We live in a culture deeply confused about what it means to be human, especially what it means to be human, male and female. It's time for a new sexual revolution. Just like Christians in the first century were known for their countercultural behavior when it came to valuing all human life and living faithfully with each other. It's time for Christians today to spark a new sexual revolution. It starts with understanding who we are. Join us for an important discussion. It'll be on the campus of North Greenville University. It's a free event, but space is limited, so secure your spot today@colsoncenter.org GREENVILLE that's colsoncenter.org GREENVILLE.