My Life, Your Death
- Aiselyn
- Jan 24, 2019
- 3 min read
New York state has legalized full term abortion, under the guise that it is only when it is for the well-being of the mother. And by well-being, they mean emotional, mental, and spiritual. Not JUST physical. My heart is broken.
Abortion, at any time of a pregnancy, is the same all the way around. It is taking the life of a child who has no reason to die, other than the fact that more often than not, it’s life is considered an inconvenience.
Nine out of ten abortions occur because the mother decides she doesn’t want the responsibility of a child. She’s young and has so much life left to live, why would she want to be saddled with a baby? Many women prioritize their lives over their child’s, ultimately resulting in the child’s death. What makes your life more valuable then that of the child you carry?
I recently heard a story of a mother who, while pregnant, discovered she had cancer. Instead of aborting the baby to receive the treatment she needed, she held off for the sole purpose of bringing her baby into this world. She lost her life in the process. In a movie I watched recently, upon discovering she was pregnant the mother states, “The moment I saw those two lines, anything I wanted no longer mattered.”
These may be considered silly anecdotes, but they really jumped out at me.
A child’s life does not begin the moment it takes breath, but the moment it is conceived. This is my belief, as a Christian and someone who believes the Biblical point of view. I have read several pro-abortion articles in the last few days and they are honestly alarming. Dr. Willie Parker, an abortionist and claimed evangelical, from Alabama, agrees that a baby in the womb is alive, but that it is only a human entity, not a person. He says that life is about protecting persons, not just life. But why?
What gives any of us the right to take the life of a person? When the life of an adult is taken, the person responsible is tried, charged, and convicted of a heinous crime. How is this so different in the mind of the world?
Abortion hits really close to home for me for one other reason. Being able to have kids is not an absolute in my family. On my Dad’s side, pregnancy doesn’t come easily. Each of my three Aunts had different struggles and each have different stories about dealing with this. I honestly don’t know if I will be able to have children. One Aunt has no children of her own and 2 adopted. The next had one of her own that passed away as a child, and has 3 adopted, the last Aunt has one of her own and one adopted. Adoption is amazing and it’s something that gives people like my Aunts the ability to have a family. It’s a scary thing I don’t talk about much, but it’s another reason why my heart shatters at all of these lost lives. At all of these women who take what their bodies can do for granted.
A silly quote comes to mind every time I think of abortion; “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” Dr. Seuss
These thoughts are from my heart and my desire is that they may cause others to think hard on this topic.
Psalm 139:13-16 reads, “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”
New York’s definition of when a fetus becomes a person https://www.politifact.com/new-york/statements/2017/jan/30/deborah-glick/new-yorks-definition-when-fetus-becomes-person/
A few stats about abortion https://abort73.com/abortion_facts/us_abortion_statistics/
The full article with Dr. Willie Parker
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