-Horton the elephant
Listening to the trembling voice of a 22 year old girl tell her experience, I shuddered. She shared about how she went to a clinic to have an abortion performed. A $480 payment was made for the procedure. This young woman wanted to let others know, what happened to her, could happen to someone else. Thinking her baby was gone, she headed home to recover. Two days later, when she was in the bathroom, she was unprepared for a horrifying discovery. There, her 13 week old baby came out. She held her in her hand. She was whole, and she was dead.
This girl was haunted, saddened, sickened, scarred, alone. Didn't know where to turn or what to do next. She ended by saying she wished she would have listened to the woman outside the clinic who tried to talk her out of what she was about to do. If she could only go back.....
True stories like this one demonstrate, that if women had a grasp on the magnitude of what exactly it was they were doing, if they saw with their eyes how that tiny human being inside them looked, felt with their hands the body of their baby, that instead of some vague, minuscule, appendage, it was her child, those ladies may not be as eager to terminate their pregnancy.
You probably know that "Roe" never even had an abortion. And, she has, in fact, spent more than 3 decades standing against what she fought so hard for in the first place. She realized she made a huge mistake.
What a young person, in her teens or 20's does may not seem like such a big deal at the time. Later, when she is older and wiser, or when she is ready to have children, what was viewed as minor and inconvenient before, may become major, grief inducing, sorrowful regret.
Who is protecting these women? Are they properly warned of the emotional side-effects they may encounter? In far too many cases, the answer is no.
I know.
I have researched this by investigating, thoroughly.
Abortions are alarmingly easy to attain and grossly under explained.
Do dollar signs prevent appropriate care and counseling?
If we are all about women's rights, shouldn't psychological and psychiatric needs be addressed?
Abortion is big money. Big money leads to big politics.
It is a farce to say this is simply about choice.
In this country, we are for reproductive freedom of choice. Anyone can choose to have children, or not.
There are one set of choices that can be made before a pregnancy ensues.
There is another that can be made after.
Why does abortion have to even be on the list of options?
Here is an article that asks some very good questions.
At the time I began asking them myself, seeking answers, I quickly noticed, all roads turned green. Countless hurting women were left in the wake of greed.
Our family is going to fight against the Freedom of Choice Act legislation, and pray to God that women and their precious children are spared.
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Amen, sister!
I am a post-abortive woman. I had an abortion when I was 15. I am now over 50 and not a day passes that I don't think about that baby. The trauma lasts a lifetime. I too will fight for the unborn for the rest of my life.
Good stuff Tisha. I'm sharing.
Sorry, this is a test. I posted earlier and wanted to see if it just didn't go through or if you deleted it.
I, personally, do not think that I could abort a baby, the expecting mom that I am. However, I am 100% for the right to abortion for many reasons that I will explain. I do agree that there is not enough education and discussion readily available to girls and women to help them make the best choices for themselves and their babies. Many abortions are ones that I do not agree with such as those done by mature women who have the ability to at least complete the pregnancy and then give the baby up for adoption. It should not be a decision made lightly and easily by anyone.
Yet, the right to choose abortion makes sense to me in many cases. For one, rape of a minor. What about the 12 year old girls who get raped? I'm not even including girls who have sex with a boyfriend thinking they're old enough to take responsibility for their actions and then get freaked out later and blame the boy for their predicament. Young girls may regret later giving up a baby, but what about the lasting pain caused by the loss of their right to complete their own childhood under the care of adults, to enjoy the companionship of their peers who understand their day-to-day problems, and a chance to heal the wounds of their abduction? What if their abuser is not put away for their crime and continues to harass the mother and child? The law cannot always protect the innocent. Or, what if he was an even worse monster who knew he would pass on a potentially lethal disease to his two victims?
What about a mother who is told to choose between her own life and that of her baby's. Imagine a woman with other children and no relatives who could almost certainly die if her nearly full-term baby is brought into this world? That's no easy decision, but who's to say that it's right to allow the mother to die just so that a baby can be born? In this case, some might say that it's murder to kill the baby or the mother. Yet, if both can't live, someone has to make the decision.
My family and I dread the idea of my mentally handicapped sister ever getting pregnant. She does not have the mental awareness needed to adhere to a healthy diet, get exercise, etc. My family would certainly take care of the baby, but it would almost definitely be born malnourished, if not worse. The pregnancy could even have terrible physical and mental effects on my sister's health which is already fragile under the closest supervision. In her case, the father could also have mental and physical handicaps that would be passed on to the child. I can't see a very happy ending for something like this.
I do not have all of the answers in how to prevent unnecessary abortions, but I consider it a crime to abolish the right to choose for one. No abortion should be chosen lightly, but there are so many situations in which I see so much pain and suffering to come of forcing someone to keep a baby. Not that anyone here has said this, but I don't understand people (and there are those) who say they can support a war in which innocent and guilty people are murdered, but that they also consider abortion a sin in the eyes of God. Life is precious, but sometimes we forget that quality of life is just as important. I think we ought to do everything in our power to improve the quality of people's lives.
Even though the situations I discussed may be rare (except that I don't think rape is that rare), aren't they valid enough to warrant the right to abortion? If we're saying no to abortion, we're willingly saying that it is alright to allow a doctor to choose for the mother to die for her baby, or that we'd rather have a preteen suffer the agony of birth than allow her to live a normal childhood. I just don't see how that's humane. I couldn't look into the eyes of a young girl begging for an abortion and tell her that she has no right in choosing whether or not to end her pregnancy, especially if it were my own daughter. Food for thought. Plus, especially in other countries where women seek illegal, unsafe abortions, I'd rather see us helping them pay for safe ones.
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