Abortion
Posted by: tony on 02/03/2008 11:00 PM
Updated by: tony on 02/03/2008 11:00 PM
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Expires: 03/05/2008 12:00 AM
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Christine at Domestic Vocation has some thoughts on the possibility of knowing people had they not been aborted.
I remember when I was pregnant with Big Girl, and I discovered online chat rooms. I was up at night, unable to sleep, and I'd go to the abortion debate rooms. Again and again, I was told by pro-abortion women that no one knows any different when they abort. Who cares? How can we miss something (never someone) that we never experienced?
I couldn't put my finger on it. It's really too hard to put into words. But I think that Journeyman makes the case, week after week, in small and subtle ways.
We might not see the difference when 3,000 children die in the womb today here in America, but there is a difference. Our world is much poorer for it.
And who knows what amazing people those children would have grown up to be? What would they have taught us? What would we have seen? What great things might they have done?
What if one of those children was destined to be my son-in-law? Or my son, through adoption?
One life makes a difference. Every life does. And that's why we pray and work to help end abortion.
I remember when the abortion debate came up in our car. My girls were both young teenagers and I left them with this thought:
"In 1959, years before the advent of Roe v. Wade, I was in the womb of a young, very pregnant and possibly scared woman. Back then, abortion was a crime. The choice was made for you unless you wished to brave the dangers of an illegal abortion. So this young woman chose life, and decided to place me in the care of an orphanage which subsequently found me a loving family who adopted me.
Had there been a 'right' to abortion, this woman may not have made the choice she did. She may have made the wrong choice. If she had, I would never have been born.
More importantly, neither would either of you."
There was silence in the car for quite a few miles.
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