Today there are thousand upon thousand of people in Washington DC marching, some silent, some loud, some young, many old, protesting the Supreme Court Decision of Roe v. Wade. Today has been emotional for me and it's not just for one reason. I have three sides to my ProLife reason. All of them have happened in the past year. I have always been ProLife, i've even marched 3 different years in DC, but i never really understood the gravity of the situation until this year.
Side 1: The first event to shock the true meaning of ProLife into me was the adoption of my niece. I have talked about her often in my other blog. However today i thought about her more and more by the hour. She is only a part of my family because some woman i will never meet, some woman in a bad situation that i will never know, decided that Her life was to give her unborn child a life. Not only did she give birth and then struggle for the rest of her life to make ends meet and raise that little baby girl, hoping that little baby girl had a good life, but she gave that Baby girl more than just her first breath, she gave her a family that will make sure every single possible avenue of love, life and respect will be brought into that baby girl's life. God gave up his only son for the world to be saved. My nieces birthmom gave up her baby girl for that baby to be saved. Both were more difficult than i could ever imagine. Jesus saved the world because he was given up!
Side 2: My sister-in-law got pregnant last year. No father, no job, nowhere to go. She was easily in a situation many women claim they can't handle. Many women turn to a doctor and say "make this disappear so i don't ruin my life!" My sister-in-law toughed through it to save a BABY's life. It's very weird in one month seeing the joy an unplanned baby brought to my family because of a woman's selfless decision and then seeing the trials and tribulations that come from an unplanned baby. It's such a difference on each end, but both result in LIFE not death. Keeping a baby after a rocky situation is just as hard of a choice as giving the baby up. Many people would argue with that, but until they have seen both it is impossible to gauge. I believe after seeing both sides that there is a choice for every woman faced with pregnancy, wanted or unwanted, to make instead of life or death: Give up the baby and the baby a change with a family you hand choose, see the baby as you wish and know for your life that the baby is safe, warm, loved and doubly blessed by you, or to give up your life to keep the baby as your own no matter what happens after that. Both require a sacrifice, and neither is easy. However both are easier on a woman than the regrets to come after murdering a helpless child before they even take their first breath.
3. my third point of view is my own. I am pregnant. I understand that i am "fortunate" and many people would argue that my situation is different from other because i am married (i put that in parenthesis because i CHOSE to wait until i was married to have a baby). However, i have loved this baby with everything i have since the moment my fourth (yeah i was untrusting of the first three) pregnancy test said PREGNANT! Just because i am married doesn't mean i am ready, it doesn't mean i'm not scared, it doesn't mean i can afford this. My husband and i were barely making it work BEFORE this and already the extra expenses are a lot to handle. but my hardships and fear are no reason to give up. This already has not been an easy pregnancy on me. I have changed physically and mentally and been sicker than anyone could have ever prepared me for. me throwing up every day is no excuse to kill my child.
I know that looking at the situations and my current situation is not the same as what many women's situation has been. That doesn't mean i am clueless. However, i have seen women loose a child, i have seen women miscarry, i have seen a teenage girl live with the regret of having an abortion and i have seen my own sister go through YEARS of trying just to find out that infertility means she will never biologically have children. Of all those situations the one that was hurt the most if the girl who chose HER life over her babies! If a person is willing to have an abortion i challenge them to go the whole 40 weeks, give birth to the baby, and then have to doctor kill it. It sound vulgar and asinine that i even suggest it, but ask yourself how much of a different there really is. Both require a great deal of physically pain and both endure more mental pain than almost any woman can bear. No baby is an "accident." Every baby was intended by God to live on this earth, not matter how long or brief a life. Unborn children can't speak up for themselves, but as a woman carrying an unborn child i have to say something. My baby deserves life, why shouldn't all of them?
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