BULLSHIT! You don't honour the women who gave you life. Elderly women are some of the poorest, worst cared for women in the country. The sad cliche of the old lady eating cans of cat food is all too true.
You don't honour poor women who give life. You label them "welfare queens" and "whores", but if they want an abortion, they're a "murderer". You complain bitterly about their "life choices".
You don't honour women when we ask for protection against sexual predators. Rape is the least prosecuted crime in America. White sexual predators are given wrist slaps and are later elected to be President or appointed to the Supreme Court.
13 Republican men wrote a health care bill that had no protections of for women's reproductive health, and which declared both pregnancy/childbirth and rape/sexual assault as "pre-existing conditions'. No woman sat on that Committee.
HOW would you know what I do???
Well since all of that shit is still going on, and you're actually defending it, it doesn't matter what you say, you're both allowing it to happen, and providing cover for the fact it does.
Most Catholic priests did not abuse children, but all knew it went on and none did anything about it. Allowing abuse to go on and saying nothing is the same thing as participation in it. In some ways worse. When one person speaks out and it ends, there are no more victims. When one person speaks out and is silenced the harm spreads like blood from an unstaunched wound.
there are a lot of other people in the world than me
That doesn't relieve you of your obligations as a patriot or a human being. "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" does not, as conservatives have you believe, refer to "free shit". It refers to service to your country to make it a better place.
Conservatives frequently say that the US is a "Christian country". A mentor of mine once said that he lived his life by a one word motto: JOY.
Jesus
Others
Yourself
I've tried to do the same. I help anyone I can. I ask for nothing in return. I have gotten back more than I've every given. I am only one person, but I do what I can. In 1979, my house was destroyed by a tornado. Dozens of people I had helped over the years, turned out to help me. I gave the clean-up contract to a young man I knew whose wife was pregnant and due soon, and who had recently lost his job.
I'm only one person but I try to live by the beliefs I espouse. Mind you I did feel like I had sold my soul to the Devil when I took my first job with a big Bay Street law firm. But the Devil really pays well, and has nice offices, bonuses twice a year, and a membership in the best clubs in town as perks, and matching pension contributions. I asked some Catholic friends about prayers of contrition and doubled my monthly Greenpeace donation, signed with black pen.