About Abortion...
I don't want to drive either of the two of you who occasionally read this blog away, but I was having a discussion with a dear friend the other day, and it won't leave me alone.
I just can't and won't believe anyone my age (60) has ever believed that it's "just a clump of cells". Way back in the 70s, while I was still in school, the "right to life" people made it abundantly clear what actually happened during the "procedure" and specifically what the product of the procedure looked like.
Distinctly, I recall 40-gallon drums full of tiny, bloodied, disembodied arms with tiny hands and fingers attached, legs with tiny little feet and toes, heads - some with hair - all with faces, and torsos, seemingly discarded. Images on a computer screen, real-time, undeniable babies there, instruments invading wombs, mouths open, screaming in pain.
The only way to deny what is actually in a woman's womb, to deny the life inside her, after seeing all of that.
The pure evil it would take, you'd have to embrace the evil, imbibe it, accept it. You must flat refuse to see the truth of it, instead blatantly choosing evil over truth.
Bad things happen to good people all the time, and responsibilities crop up, and adults accept that and take care of those responsibilities. Human beings accept that and take care of those responsibilities. It's not about women's reproductive rights. It's not about HER body. It's about the Baby's body inside the mother's womb.
1 - 3% of all abortions are due to the health of the mother
That's according to the Guttmacher Institute, the world's leading pro-abortion research organization. They show a whopping 95.6% are performed for "CONVENIENCE"! That's "social" or "economic" reasons.
Other, less abortion-friendly groups show the figure for medically necessary procedures is less than 1%.
I know that women have suffered while making decisions regarding abortion. This also makes me sad, to have society telling them it's perfectly safe, it's their RIGHT, it's about THEIR body! It's just a CLUMP OF CELLS! The fetus won't feel a thing. It's NOT A BABY. And women allow themselves to buy into it. They deny the truth, they allow themselves to refuse to see it for a myriad of reasons. It's a horrible, HORRIBLE place to be. I remember BEING there and thinking I was going to have to have an abortion. I was bawling my eyes out. Miserable, no alternatives in sight. I called my best friend's mother, JoAnn. She was also a dear friend and, subconsciously, I knew she would talk me out of an abortion. She did. Later I miscarried. I was broken-hearted that I'd lost what I'd come to believe was the son I was carrying, the same baby I'd believed I was going to have to abort. I've always been broken-hearted at that loss. How much more so would I have been had I chosen to end the life of that baby myself?
I know women who are suffering that kind of sadness and brokenheartedness today because they were led into allowing themselves to believe that abortion was the answer.
Society as it is today LIES. And it's evil. EVIL does exist, as does GOOD. We all know this from an early age, it's why we learn to lie when as children we know we've done wrong and we lie to keep from getting into trouble. Parent, "Did you break that?" The child who has just broken the item in question, "Noooooo!"
Anyway, I had no way to take care of that baby. I was alone and had just quit my glamourous career at a convenience store. I was not in a committed relationship. My good friend, ahem, had just slept with the same boyfriend that got me pregnant. It was SO not a good time to turn up pregnant. But JoAnn understood that I was not able to commit to abortion either. And she talked me through it, calmly and rationally. She really helped me. She didn't give me any crap about it being a bunch of cells, either. I knew she wouldn't. By the time we hung up the phone, I'd determined to do what I needed to do to become a right proper mother. The choice was taken out of my hands, as it turned out. But I was nearing 30 and my biological clock was ticking Very VERY LOUDLY.
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