There's been an issue heavy on my heart lately, and for some reason I feel the need to voice my thoughts today. I hope I can organize this enough to make sense. :)
First off, I am pro-life and that's what this post is about. I'm pretty sure most of you reading this share my beliefs, but for anyone who does not I hope I can speak the truth in love - it is not my intent to offend anyone, but as this is a matter of life and death I am compelled to speak my opinion.
Today I happened upon a blog that covers various parenting issues. One post was a letter from a mother to her son saying how much she regretted having him circumcised. I am not going to get into that whole issue, but there was a line in the letter that really struck me. It said, "I made a choice that wasn't mine to make, one that I wasn't equipped to make, one that I should never have been allowed to make." I did just a little research on the woman who wrote this, and I didn't find anything that specifically said she's pro-abortion, but from everything else I saw I would be very surprised if she's not. Even so, having come across many different people in my 30 years, I'd dare bet there are plenty of people out there who would make a statement like that about circumcision yet also be pro-abortion. Are you kidding me?! People are going to feel bad about a choice like circumcision, yet feel they can kill an unwanted baby? Babies should have a choice in whether or not they're circumcised, but not whether or not they get to live...hmmm....seems terribly mixed up to me.
Last week I heard a radio broadcast that absolutely broke my heart and made me sick to my stomach. I'll spare the gruesome details, but it was about an abortionist in Pennsylvania who was charged with murder for killing babies. According to the grand jury report, "he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable, babies in the third trimester of pregnancy - and then murdered these newborns..." What he did was flat out against the law whether you are pro-life or pro-abortion.
What this doctor did was awful, and what gets me as I continue to think about this is, how can it be wrong to kill a baby outside of the womb, but it's okay while it's still in the womb? Why does location matter? It's wrong either way! And, how can they say that it's okay to have an abortion before 24 weeks of pregnancy, but not after? How can they decide when the cut-off is? That's a precious life no matter how old it is. We saw each of the boys' heartbeat at 8 weeks. I was just looking through my pregnancy journal, and here are a couple other milestones: at 14 weeks "we could see arms, legs, head, spine, heart...one was swallowing when we saw him, the other was kicking like crazy"; at 18 weeks we found out one of them was a boy; at 20 weeks we found out the other was a boy as well; and somewhere between 18 and 22 weeks I started really feeling all their wrestling with each other. It used to be that there was somewhat of a scientific debate on whether a fetus was a life or not - you don't hear that debate anymore. That's because it's clear that it IS a life! It's called a fetus rather than a baby so supposedly you don't feel as bad about killing it, and the argument for abortion now is all about a woman's right to choose. Pure selfishness. Just because you don't want a baby makes it okay to kill it?
We can't just go around killing people that we don't want. It's just as wrong to go shoot an abortionist as it is to be an abortionist. It saddens me when things like that happen. Someone goes and does something stupid like that and suddenly the rest of the world thinks that all pro-lifers and all Christians are nut jobs like that. I heard another broadcast a few weeks ago that featured a woman who was a former abortionist and now is pro-life - it wasn't the protesters and angry mobs yelling at her that got her to change her mind... Anyways, I suppose that's all a whole separate discussion.
There have been over 53 million abortions since 1973. 53 million. Can you even wrap your brain around that number? The population of the state of California is only about 37 million.
Okay, I feel like I'm starting to ramble, so I'd better wrap this up. When you are pregnant, that is a life inside you, a life that has the right to live, not be killed out of selfishness. I think of the women I know that have been faced with an unplanned pregnancy and chose life, and I thank God for their courage and for the lives saved. I know it's not easy for them, but I don't think any could look into the face of their child and say they wish that child had not been born. Consider what you can do to help a woman who has chosen life under difficult circumstances.
Nicely put, Liz. Ever since having a miscarriage at 16 weeks and seeing that fully formed baby who we basically watched die because of all the ultrasounds I had that night to confirm he was really dead, I can never understand how they say it isn't a living human being. The doctor referred to him as "the product of conception." I guess that was so I woouldn't feel so bad about losing a child. All it did, though, was irritate me. I, too, heard about that doctor and was just sick reading about it. Our little Nicholas was 28 weeks when he was born, and I can't imagine then killing him. I don't know how that doctor could do what he did. Just shows what a depraved world we live in.
ReplyDeleteAnd, then, my mind goes back to Nathan and Alison whose full-term, still-born baby was delivered Saturday afternoon. Please pray for them.
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