I Was Once A Fetus
Posted by: tony on 10/16/2005 10:45 PM
Updated by: tony on 10/17/2005 04:32 PM
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Expires: 11/16/2005 12:00 AM
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 Yes, gentle reader. As hard as it is for many of you to believe, I was a fetus. As a matter of fact, for a short period, I was an embryo, and for even a shorter period, I was a "blastocyte". I was never a "sperm" and I was never an "egg". Before the Creator placed his hand on my mother and father, the sperm and egg were simply souless tools of my future creation which God had planned, long before I was born.
A couple of things prompted me to write this particular blog entry. One was the grisly post-abortion pictures that Stacy posted on her blog, Not A Desperate Housewife, and the following baring of her soul:
Having spent most of my life as a mother now, I have never been able to digest abortion. Dear husband and I made great sacrifices to not be guilty of this atrocity. Upon discovering that I was pregnant at the age of 17, abortion did cross my mind but I knew it was something I could not do. It almost seemed like the logical way out; my parents wouldn't know, my friends wouldn't know and I would be able to continue life as normal. As I've said before, 'abortion is the eraser for sexual immorality'.
I'm sure Stacy will forgive me if I don't link to the actual article, and simply link to her blog. Stacy has given you a glimpse into the life of a young girl faced with a choice. I will try and give you a glimpse into the child for which that choice is being made.
I am an adoptee. Having never met my birth mother, I can only guess what might have been going through her mind when faced with this choice. Back in 1959, however, the choice was more clear cut. Have the child or risk an illegal abortion, putting your freedom and very life at risk.
My birth mother chose life. I am not going to cheapen her choice by citing the fact that she didn't have access to "safe and easy abortion", but the fact remains that had she had that option, you might have been looking at a picture of me on Stacy's blog. You certainly would not be reading these words.
I was adopted by a wonderful mother and father, devout Catholics both. I was born in Our Lady of Victory Orphanage in Lackawanna, NY. My parents took me home, and gave me a comfortable and love-filled life.
I have been blessed.
This is one of the reasons I take abortion very seriously. I weigh a woman's convenience against my life, or the life of someone like me, and it comes up wanting.
We, as a society, are supposed to protect the weak, helpless and voiceless. We have given the unborn names like "fetus", "embryo", "lump of unformed tissue" and the biggest lie: "her body", to strip the unborn child of his or her essential humanity.
The abortion opponents have been attacking this all wrong. What we need to do is simply pass a law giving Constitutional citizenship to the unborn, and Roe v. Wade becomes irrelevant as the unborn become protected by the 14th amendement.
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
A federal law of this sort, would immediately outlaw abortion throughout the United States.
I think it's high time we do this.
Because I was a fetus.
And you were too.
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