This is Abortion

“I had an abortion at 17 and it was the worst thing I ever did. It was the first time I’d had sex, and that was rotten. I’d always thought it was going to be all violins, and it was just awful. I was two months gone when I realized. I went to my mum and she said, without pausing for breath: ‘You have to get rid of it.’ She told me where the clinic was, then virtually pushed me off. She was so angry. She said I’d got myself in this mess, now she had to get me out. But she didn’t come. I went alone. I was terrified. It was full of other young girls, and we were all terrified and looking at each other and nobody was saying a bloody word. I howled my way through it, and it was horrible. I would never recommend it to anyone because it comes back to haunt you. When I tried to have children, I lost three – I think it was because something had happened to my cervix during the abortion. After three miscarriages, they had to put a stitch in it. In life, whatever it is, you pay somewhere down the line. You have to be accountable.” Sharon Osbourne, wife of rock singer, Ozzy Osbourne.

 

Today, here in Hamilton, an average of four unborn babies were murdered by the means of abortion. Four babies yesterday faced this untimely fate and four tomorrow will never know their parents. Mind you, these are just averages. One day, it could be less than that. One day, it could be more. Since abortion was made restriction free in 1988, over three million children have been aborted. That is about one eighth of our population wiped out due to an inconvenience. One of them could have been a classmate, a future husband or wife or someone who was destined to change this world for the better. Day after day, week after week, year after year, innocent unborn children are quietly destroyed behind clinic doors and no one seems to care. We are leaving millions of women to silently suffer the pain and regret of what was supposed to be a simple “choice”. We sympathize for those who face an unplanned pregnancy. But abortion is not the only answer.

 

Some Pro-Choicers will tell you that abortions should stay legal because most are performed due to rape, incest, to protect the mother’s health or because of fetal abnormalities. 1% are done on rape or incest victims. Another 1% are done on unborn babies with fetal abnormalities. 3% are performed to protect the mother’s health. But 95% are performed as a method of birth control or as an easy solution to a “slip up”.

 

Some Pro-Choicers believe that abortion saves children from poverty. But what about the people who have risen above impoverished roots? What about abortion because the child is handicapped? Don’t they deserve life? You wouldn’t kill a puppy. So why would you kill a living miracle? One of the Ten Commandments that reside in our faith is “Thou Shall not kill.” There is hypocrisy in those who cringe in disgust over the holocaust, while at the same time endorsing and supporting the holocaust of abortion.

 

The Pro-life argument is no longer centrally based on that it isn’t just the woman’s body but also the baby’s during pregnancy. It is no longer centrally based on the response,” But what if the woman was raped?” It can be summed up in the acronym SLED, which stands for size, level of development, environment, and degree of dependency.

 

What does size have to do with rights of personhood? The answer is nothing. Size doesn’t matter. It is lawful to kill an insect and not a human, not because the person is bigger but because the person is human. Premature babies are much smaller than fetuses that are still in the womb, close to delivery. Those fetuses may be legally aborted despite the fact that they are bigger than many premature newborns. Size doesn’t determine personhood after birth and it shouldn’t determine personhood before birth.

 

It is a fact that an unborn baby is at a lesser level of development than a newborn is but this has no significance. Children are less developed than adults and people with disabilities may be less developed than some children. It is humanity, not your brain capacity that determines personhood.

 

Your environment or place of residence whether inside the womb or outside, makes no difference. Where someone lives has nothing to do with your personhood. Moving in and out of this classroom won’t make you any less of a person.

 

A favourite abortion advocate is to strip unborn babies of their personhood based on their dependency. Since a fetus can’t survive on it’s own, it has no right to life, right? As teenagers, we still, to some degree, depend on our parents. Do we not deserve life? People who rely on kidney machines or pacemakers or insulin shots for survival, do they not deserve life?

 

We need to let woman know that there are more choices, because there isn’t just one victim in this malovent mayhem of murder. There are two. Women are carrying this burden like a weight on their shoulders. More and more reports show that women are suffering from feelings of depression, guilt, self-hatred and anger. They are suffering in their mind, body and soul. They have suicidal thoughts and have slipping into drug and alcohol problems to numb the pain. Abortion creates long-term health risks such as breast, cervical and ovarian cancer, becoming sterile, infections and even death. It also compromises who we are as women. We are designed to give life and nurture it. When we abort children, we interfere with the natural process of pro-creation and it leaves an imprint on our heart that never goes away but is often denied being there.

 

But you ask, “What do we do about it?” We are today’s youth. We are the future. We are the ones who are going to put an end to this killing spree. We need to let women know that abortion isn’t the “simple choice” that everyone makes it out to be. Abortion had and continues to kill off Canada’s future. The unborn have no voice, so we need to be the voice for the unborn.

 

What are you willing to do about it?

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