Take My Hand, Not My Life

“It is a poverty that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.” As Mother Teresa so courageously asserts, abortion claims the lives of over two million innocent beings every year.

In March of this year, the Arkansas legislature enacted the strictest control on abortion in the country. A mother can no longer have an abortion past pregnancy of twelve weeks and if the fetus has a heartbeat. Activists everywhere rejoiced at this new change.

I personally would celebrate if abortion were completely outlawed in all fifty states. Before you stop reading with anger, let me state my case to all of you “Pro-Choice” campaigners out there.

Let’s say a woman makes a bad decision and gets pregnant. I believe in pro-choice from the opposite angle. She should have made her choice before the conception instead of after. If any life-changing decisions are to be made, it should be to either take caution or don’t do what is required to get pregnant.

A lot of people, even some Pro-Life activists, make exceptions for girls or women that have been abused or raped. In this case, I couldn’t agree less. Sure, it is a terrible misfortune that someone had to get mistreated in that way. Nevertheless, it doesn’t justify abortion. Was it the child’s fault that the girl got raped? Not in any way. Did that baby force that man upon her? I think not. So, why would someone have the audacity to punish the child? I can confidently tell you that if I were sexually abused tomorrow, I would be a parent in nine months. I’m not taking a life to prevent the effect on mine.

Maybe income calls for an unstable environment for the child. If the parents blame poverty for their choice to have an abortion, then it is a false claim. There are plenty of other people out there who maybe aren’t able to have children of their own. That is why adoption is the best choice for parents expecting an unwanted child. Not only do aspiring parents receive a blessing, but another human being gets to experience life.

Another argument pro-choice activists present is the life of the mother. If you’ve ever seen Steel Magnolias, then you’d know that often times, it comes down to either the mother or the child living. If the mother has the child, she dies. If she aborts, she lives. This is a tragic stand-off between parent and offspring. However, there is an answer. If this happens when I have my first child, I will let my baby live without hesitation. I’ve had plenty of time in this life. Why take another person’s chance away when we’ve lived so much longer? If God wills that the mother die in order for the baby to live, then I strongly believe that the respectable thing to do is give life.

You never know who the baby could be and what he/she could amount to. They might be the next Martin Luther King. Or maybe even the greatest president in history. They could go into the most menacing places spreading God’s Word around the world. If they are killed before they even have the chance, how will we ever know?

A wise Ronald Reagan once said, “It seems to me that everyone for abortion has already been born.” If we can accept for a mother to kill her own child, how can we imprison people for killing each other? In the war against childhood, where do you stand?

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