by P. M. Montgomery

Created on: June 24, 2009   Last Updated: June 26, 2009

Being a Christian is about loving your fellow man and doing unto others as you would want them to do unto you. Jesus himself showed us how to love the unloved and he was not a popular person when he walked this earth. His teachings were laughed at and scoffed upon and the leaders in the church were so angered that they conspired together to kill him.

While I do not, myself, believe in abortion as a means of birth control, I do believe in a woman's right to choose for herself. I would hope that she would honestly think about other choices such as adoption before going through with an abortion, but to force a woman to have a child she is not ready to have is not the answer either. We already have too many children becoming victims of child abuse and neglect because they are not wanted and loved the way they should be. Should a tiny child have to suffer like this for the short time he or she was on this earth because we took away the right of his mother to have an abortion?

There are also times when a mother's life is in danger during a pregnancy and the only way to save her is to abort the fetus. If abortion was not available as an option to her and her family, then they would lose both mother and child. That is just not an option in my opinion.

Take the fragile rape victim who learns that she has conceived a child as a result of a violent attack. Should abortion not be an option to her? Some women are able to carry a child that is conceived in this manner and either give them up for adoption or in some cases, even raise them and love them, but if the attack was particularly brutal and the woman's mind is already traumatized by that, then try to imagine the suffering she would go through during the months of carrying the pregnancy to term. That child would be like a constant reminder to her of the rape she had to endure and would not be a welcome addition to her home. Even if given up for adoption, how would the months of being in a womb flooded with stress hormones affect this child? I firmly believe it does affect the baby and his later development in life.

Then you must think of the children conceived in incest. Why would you even think of denying the poor child that was raped by their own father, brother, uncle, or cousin the right to terminate that pregnancy if it is caught in time? The chances of the baby being born with overwhelming physical and mental defects are high, taxing the health care system and the poor people who are given the job of raising the child.

If Roe vs. Wade is done away with, abortions will not stop. They will return to the back alleys, done by people not skilled, and with instruments not properly sterilized as they were in the past. Women will die from bleeding, infections, and the unskilled procedures done illegally. Instead of fighting about Roe vs. Wade and murdering the people who are helping these women, we need better sex education in our schools. We need parents involved in their children's lives like never before. If your daughter or son comes to you and says, "We're pregnant". Then talk to them. Offer them alternatives to abortion. Adoption, or keeping the baby and raising it as their own with your help instead of condemning them for what they did.

Unconditional love is what Christianity is all about. Not protests and murder and hate. Love!

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