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Muscaro | February 09, 2025 Updated:February 10, 2025   WASHINGTON—Carlos Lamoutte and GianLuca Pasquotto listened intently as Vice President JD Vance spoke to a crowd of tens of thousands gathered on the National Mall on Jan. 24 for the 52nd National March for Life.   The seniors at Jesuit High School, an all-boys Catholic school in Tampa, Florida, traveled to the nation's capital with more than 45 fellow members of the school's pro-life club, which began sending students to the March for Life more than a decade ago.   But they were just a fraction of the thousands of young men from schools, colleges, and seminaries across the country gathered in the nation's capital to make their voices heard.   Those young men were joined by little boys walking hand-in-hand with their fathers and mothers, and older men bearing signs with messages such as "Abortion Is Failed Manhood" and "Men Regret Lost Fatherhood."   Their presence at the march, along with male leaders such as Vance, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), exemplified their determination to hold fast to their beliefs. President Donald Trump also shared a video message: "We will again stand proudly for families and for life."   March attendee Ryder Wittman, 20, a senior at Colorado Christian University, said, "I think a lot of guys aren't even aware that they can be part of this."   He said his friends and peers have told him, "Oh, I didn't know I could have an opinion about that. I didn't know there was anything I could do. I thought that was a female thing."   Wittman said that while volunteering at a pregnancy center in Denver, he comes face to face with young men who feel voiceless over an unplanned pregnancy, even when their girlfriends want them to speak up.   "A lot of guys come in and they're my age, you know, they're 19, 20, 21, and, you know, the mentality they're told is 'I can't have an opinion on this,'" he told The Epoch Times.   "And their girlfriends, they'll be looking at them saying, 'Hey, lead me in this. Tell me what we should do.' So, the big thing for me is how do we challenge that. How do we combat the idea that men don't have a say here?   "It's really heartbreaking and tragic to witness."   Several pro-life groups have recognized that push to silence men on the issue and have even seen it arise in the pro-life movement. Ryder Wittman, a senior at Colorado Christian University, ahead of the March for Life in Washington on Jan. 24, 2025. (Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times) "Sometimes the pro-life movement risks falling into this mistake, that it's just a women's movement," Priests for Life National Director Frank Pavone told The Epoch Times. "Sometimes you'll see these events being arranged, and they say, 'Oh, let's just let the women speak. We'll only let the women speak.' That's a big mistake.   "Of course, we want the voices of the women to be loud and clear. We bring forward the voices of the women in our 'Silent No More' campaign, those who have had abortions. But even there, the men are involved as well."   Janet Morana is Priests for Life's executive director, as well as cofounder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign. Morana and Pavone said that making abortion exclusively a women's issue helps perpetuate abortion by making women feel alone in their choice. Frank Pavone (L) with Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Priests for Life Executive Director Janet Morana. (Courtesy of Frank Pavone) Men need to resume the role of protector, they said, praising the number of young men they see becoming active in the pro-life movement.   "It's so beautiful to see because if we had more guys like that, back when Norma McCorvey was around, and Roe v. Wade started, I don't think we'd be where we are," Morana told The Epoch Times.   "It's strong men ... and boys growing up who will defend their women and put them up on a pedestal like they belong and really celebrate motherhood."   Students for Life's Kristen Cooper, 21, also emphasized the need for both men and women to be involved.   "The pro-life movement is built on families, and that requires both men and women, and we are so happy to have men standing up for our movement," she told The Epoch Times.   The Post-Roe Generation   The young men who spoke to The Epoch Times said they see the need for a permanent change in the nation's culture.   "I believe our generation has a great responsibility to redeem our culture of death and transform it into a culture of life," Lamoutte wrote in an email before the march. "Now that Roe v. Wade has been overturned, it's time to focus on our culture.   "As St. John Paul II constantly proclaimed, culture is more important than politics and economics when it comes to true and lasting change in our society. I think that's what our post-Roe generation is called to above all else."   Both of Lamoutte's parents are obstetrician-gynecologists. Having two doctors as parents—and watching his dad volunteer for an abortion reversal hotline—was formative, as he heard of crisis pregnancies and women wanting to reverse first-trimester abortions.   "Having such a close experience with these patients gave me a different perspective, which caused me to become very passionate about the pro-life cause and inspired me to stand up for these women and their children," he said. People take part in the March for Life in Washington on Jan. 24, 2025. (Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times) Testimonials also brought Pasquotto fully into the pro-life movement.   He told The Epoch Times via email that he initially joined Tampa Jesuit's pro-life club because his brother had been a member for four years and had participated in three March for Life trips.   He said the turning point in his conviction occurred during his first March for Life when he heard the "Silent No More" testimonies of women who had abortions and were now speaking out about their remorse and continued pain and suffering.   "I realized that this was not a mere political or even social issue," he said. "Abortion is a moral dilemma that directly affects the next generation of Americans. I honestly just want my children to grow up in a world that promotes life, not ends it."   Survivors   Abortion has directly impacted every generation since Roe v. Wade, Pavone said. Those generations are connected by the fact that they are survivors; while their own parents may not have considered aborting them, they were conceived, carried, and born in a society that did not offer them protection.   That awareness of being a survivor, he said, should fuel people to speak up.   "In speaking for the unborn, you are speaking up also for yourselves," he told The Epoch Times. "If you were not protected in the womb, you're speaking for yourselves."   Speaker Johnson recognized that defining moment as well, telling the crowd of marchers about how he was the product of an unplanned pregnancy and born just one year before Roe v. Wade.   "I am so eternally grateful that my mom and dad ignored all the people who told them to just take care of that problem, and they chose to embrace life and to have me, the first of their four children," he said... Continue reading the full story here>> Subscribe to The Epoch Times to read the rest. 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