July 31, 2007
How does Roe vs. Wade affect teens? Affect you? Is it a non-issue? Or is faith involved in this? What are your thoughts as a guy, as a girl?
For me, it’s a personal and faith-filled issue. You see, my mom got pregnant with me at a tough time in her life. She was young, already a mom who had a child and who had lost a child, and on her own. The timing of her pregnancy was inconvenient and difficult, and today it would make sense to many for her to have aborted that pregnancy.
Except that pregnancy was me.
I’m grateful that she allowed me, rather than circumstances or poverty or anything else, to decide if my life was of value.
If she had aborted me, then I would not exist. I was that baby. That’s the issue that seems to be overlooked when talking about abortion. There is an individual, a person, involved.
If I were aborted, I would not exist, but nor would Leslie, Ryan, and Melissa, my children, nor their children in the future.
Since 1973 an estimated 46 million abortions have been performed. This year there will be 1.3 million abortions performed in the U.S.
The two women involved in the Roe vs. Wade case are now pro-life. Intriguing.
