Women have more than earned the right to do what we want with our minds, bodies and voices. The right to our own bodies is equally as important as the right to speak our minds. And when we are threatened to be stripped of our right to either, we revolt. We revolt to remind those who have forgotten that they have no right to control what we do or say.

Just when we thought we had heard all we could from the men and women who participated in the Women’s March, they struck again on March 8. To remind the world of the role that women play economically, those who participated did one or all of three things: wore red in solidarity, avoided shopping or took a day off from paid or unpaid labor.

Women do play a major role on many levels in many different forms of society. While we deserve to be recognized for the enormous value held in the world, we are still prone to experience higher inequalities, receive lower wages, are more vulnerable to sexism, experience sexual harassment and feel a sense of insecurity when it comes to work.

The Women’s March on Washington organization was a key aspect in the International Women’s Day and Day Without a Woman when the Women’s March website stated, “We saw clearly that our army of love greatly outnumbers that of fear, greed and hatred.”

Many are arguing that nothing is being accomplished by those who choose to stand against the wrongdoings.

Ashley Mcguire, an opinion contributor for The Hill News, wrote an article that bashed the women’s movement, arguing that while the movement claims to be for all women’s rights, it fails miserably when it claims to stand for “the human rights of women” because according to Mcguire, “They side-step the reality that tens of millions of American women consider abortion to be an egregious human rights violation against hundreds of thousands of females annually and millions more globally.”

However, those who choose to look at the strike in that way only prove to be more close minded than ever.

The movement is NOT solely based around pro-abortion versus anti-abortion viewpoints. While pro-abortion rights is something that some of those who marched do believe in, it is only a mere glimpse of the enormity of beliefs in the movement that are stood for. Women’s rights are human rights, and every women should be entitled to her own body as a human being. It is in no one’s place to choose for her, or rather force her, in situations like so.

What is “egregious” is the fact that women like Mcguire believe they have the right to force a child from another woman’s body simply because they believe that is the right choice. Good for you Mcguire, you have come to a conclusion based on your own personal beliefs. But, so have millions of other women in the world and, in fact, you are the one side stepping the reality that the tens of millions of women who marched consider your viewpoint irrelevant because it is not your body.

The March and strike were both forms of expressing freedom of speech. Women hold a tremendous value, and it is about time people come to terms with that fact. Those who choose to diminish and belittle such a widespread and unified movement have no idea what they are in for because this is just the beginning of a revolution for women.