My state is in a turmoil. In just 4 short days... we will be at the polls voting for a first in the U.S. (Yeah suprising MS is on the forefront for once!) the personhood ammendment defining a person as beginning at the moment of conception. Wow! So I did my research tonight. Before I get into it.. let me go on and say I am anti-abortion and 100% pro-life. Now that being said, I wasn't sure whether I could vote for initiative 26 or not. I had been hearing that it would bann controceptives, ivf, and life-saving measures if the mother's life was endangered. Then there was the horribly, nasty rumor that miscarriage could be prosecuted. So I did my research. I went to http://www.yeson26.net/ and to http://www.heartchanger.com/ and boy did I find some disturbing things. So let's set the facts straight. No, it will not bann prohibitive measures of getting pregnant... just won't let you abort afterwards. No it won't keep you from having IVF... this was a big hang up for me. As woman who wants to have a baby sooooooo bad that though we chose not to go through IVF I didn't want to take that option from others. It will however keep you from destroying embryos, which was a big reason that we chose not to have IVF. I couldn't destroy my child, or adopt them out...and when the implantation rate is only 40% to me... in my opinion... I was giving my baby a bigger chance to fail and I just couldn't do that. Once again, that was our opinion. And finally, no if both lives can't be saved then the doctor can save the life of the mother.
Now all that being said. My mom found out tonight that I was a little wobbly on my decision. I was coming to it...but I was still in the research mode and well let's just say she wasn't happy... she was terrified. I didn't understand it.. I thought she should be proud that I research for myself and not just believe what others tell me. Well, by the time we were done she was. She kept saying abortion and abortion...and well I had to tell her from my point of view and here it is:
I can't have children... so in all honesty abortion ticks me off. I'd give my left arm (only because I'm right handed and need my right arm to care for a child) to have a baby. I want one so bad and I can't have one. Through reasons I can not control I can't have a child. And millions are killed every day because they are "unwanted". Well, you know what you have a choice... 2 of them the way I see it. 1) Don't get pregnant. Practice abstinence or take the pill and preven pregnancy from happening. 2) Adoption. Give the chance to someone who would love to be a parent but for reasons beyond their control can't the chance to have a child. It's not the child's fault. I've been dealing with people saying but what if it's rape or incest... well I guess being infertile I see it differently. That may very well be the way that I get a child. That may be the avenue in which I become a mother. Sorry the child did no wrong. And though I know for 9 months it's a daily reminder do you really think that once you abort it's over? I hear that it's actually worse. That with abortion people never get over it. And there are people who consider abortion better for the child than adoption! Really! Are you kidding me!?!? It's easier to abort??? That adoption is "giving away" your child. Abortion is killing him/her!!! Really! Some of the stories on heartchanger are very contradictive. You value life... but abortion is ok? Seriously! Give the chance to someone else who wants to be a parent. You know maybe the economy is hurting for a reason. Maybe we should really consider this.
The age old argument is that it's just fetal tissue until so many months/weeks etc. Well, by the time most women know they are pregnant guess what? The baby looks like a baby. When it's "cells" you don't know you are pregnant. I'm sorry... but there is no way you can know that quickly. You were given a right to life... why not give it to the child. No I don't believe in choices. Yes you have one... not to get pregnant or to give the baby in adoption.... but the baby has a right to life. As Dr. Seuss said... "A person is a person no matter how small!"
For all the women who would love to have a baby of their own... for all those who struggle with concieving.. I'm sorry as one of those I cannot condone abortion. Not even in sad conditions. It's not the baby's fault.
