They Exploit Violence Against Women to Promote Abortion

On November 25, 1960, Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa Mirabal were murdered by Trujillo’s regime in the Dominican Republic—beaten and strangled for daring to defy tyranny. In 1981, feminist groups claimed the date as a symbol of what they call systemic violence against women. The UN followed in 2000, declaring it the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and encouraging nations to mark it with events, slogans, and campaigns.

The United Nations chose the color orange as the visual symbol of its campaign to end violence against women because it projects optimism. Orange, they say, represents a “brighter future” free from violence. Since launching the “Orange the World” initiative, the UN has urged nations, NGOs, and individuals to wear orange or light up buildings in the color every November 25 through December 10.

But beneath this bright hue lies a deeper motivation: to universalize a message, simplify a cause, and create a seamless brand that looks good on banners and social feeds. The problem? In focusing on optics, the UN avoids the harder questions. Orange may be eye-catching, but it risks reducing real, bloody, structural violence, like what happened to the Mirabal sisters or what happens daily to baby girls in abortion clinics, to a color-coded campaign.

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The UN and its allies will plaster the sisters’ faces across social media. Feminist activists, pro-abortion NGOs, and those profiting from the abortion industry will nod along, reminding the world that the Mirabal sisters were beaten, strangled, and dumped off a cliff. But they won’t stop at remembrance. They’ll use the sisters’ story to push for unrestricted abortion. In their view, any limit on ending a pregnancy amounts to violence against women. They twist a real act of political murder into a justification for killing children in the womb.

That’s not justice, and it’s not remembrance. It’s theft. The abortion industry has stolen the memory of three murdered women to prop up a movement that kills the youngest of girls before they even draw breath.

It is the greatest of ironies and hypocrisies, so thick it chokes, because when the lights come on in abortion clinics specializing in sex-selection abortions, the UN says nothing. The same institution that floods monuments in hopeful color turns a blind eye to the dim-lit spaces where girls are destroyed precisely because they are girls.

Sex-selective abortion has wiped out over 140 million girls worldwide. That’s the UN’s own data. They track the gendercide but refuse to condemn it. They condemn clubs and cliffs, as they should, but not a potassium chloride injection to the heart. They won’t denounce forceps twisting arms from the shoulders because that is now considered “reproductive health”.

The Mirabals died fighting tyranny. Today, tyranny wears gloves and a mask and works in fluorescent-lit rooms with a technician on standby. Women pay for the service, and when they can’t, governments subsidize it, and the UN calls it progress.

The buildings are orange tonight. But don’t be fooled because those lights that should represent the clarion call to stop violence against women don’t shine into the operating rooms where baby girls die quietly and by design. It doesn’t shine into the sonogram screen that says, “It’s a girl,” and becomes a death sentence. It doesn’t shine on the trays where tiny limbs are counted and bagged.

The Mirabal sisters deserve better than a color and a tweet. So do the millions of preborn girls who, like the beloved butterflies of Maria Mirabel, never get the chance to open their wings.

Light the buildings if you must. But understand, and never forget, the horror that dwells in the shadows. The Mirabal sisters deserved better than a dictator, and their tiniest sisters deserve better than death.

LifeNews.com Note: Raimundo Rojas is the Outreach Director for the National Right to Life Committee. He is a former president of Florida Right to Life and has presented the pro-life message to millions in Spanish-language media outlets. He represents NRLC at the United Nations as an NGO. Rojas was born in Santiago de las Vegas, Havana, Cuba and he and his family escaped to the United States in 1968.