Over the past three months, I have had the honor of playing some role in saving the lives of three different babies from the horrors of the abortion industry.

The first happened in December 2025, when a coworker reached out to me and told me a woman in Ohio had taken the abortion pill but wanted to have the effects reversed. Without help, this woman would have been unable to get a prescription to reverse the abortion pill because her boyfriend refused to help her travel. He wanted an abortion, not to support his girlfriend.

The next month, a woman posted on Instagram about how she had an abortion appointment scheduled at Planned Parenthood. Her post said she “didn’t want to go through with it but… [had] no other options available.” I reached out to her and was able to hear her story. She told me the boyfriend wanted nothing to do with the baby, and she didn’t feel like she could raise this child without the support. This man had no interest in supporting a family. All he knew was how to escape responsibility.

Then, in February, another woman messaged me on Instagram, telling me that she had taken the abortion pill 20 hours prior and wanted to reverse it but didn’t know how. She needed someone in her life to let her know whether it was possible or if it was too late to save her preborn child’s life. The men in her life knew nothing of how to save a baby from abortion. All they knew was how to obtain one.

Every one of these babies was saved and continues to grow healthily in their mother’s wombs. But each of these stories highlights a recurring theme: the absence of men willing to demonstrate true masculinity.

Today, society focuses its attention on the concept of “toxic masculinity,” which it portrays as an excess of masculine characteristics used to oppress and belittle women. But the real issue is a lack of masculinity. True masculinity means embracing the nature of what it means to be a man: to protect and provide what must be protected and provided for. So-called “toxic masculinity,” or the belittling of women, is not masculinity at all because it fails to protect what should be honored: the dignity of women.

In each of these three cases, where women nearly lost their children to abortion, I never would have needed to help if they had men in their lives who possessed true masculinity — and thanks be to God that he allowed me to play a role in saving these children’s lives. But if we built a society where men saw unplanned pregnancy not as a disease to be cured, but as an opportunity to protect and provide for the woman in their life and the new member of their family, we would be far better off.

Mother Teresa is known for telling people (and you know society needs help when it has to learn what masculinity is from a five-foot tall Catholic nun): “If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.” If we truly seek to create a world where abortion is completely unthinkable, we must first build up a generation of masculine and pro-life men — men who don’t run away, but who instead support, protect, and love the women in their lives through the challenges life brings.

I am honored to have been a small piece in protecting the lives of these children and offering support to their mothers, but it can’t stop there. I offer this message to all the men out there: Be masculine. Be the rocks on which our society builds its families. A society that loses its protectors is destined to have its weak slaughtered and abandoned.