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I have been on several sides of this issue and I have seen the beauty that results from keeping a baby instead of killing it. I have seen lives transformed with beauty and love, and I have seen fear removed. We were never meant to have to choose whether to kill our child or not, and abortion is killing a person that would have grown up to be your son or daughter who would ultimately have grandchildren, keeping your heritage alive many generations, being a support and joy in your future. It is usually not the woman's choice, but fear of embarrassment or conflict regarding community, family or friends that causes a woman to choose abortion.

I was pregnant out of wedlock when I was nineteen and when I came home with my boyfriend my father told me that he did not want anything to do with the child. I got married to the father. Abortion was not a right back then. Had there been abortion available, I might have decided to do it: My family owned a restaurant in a town of twenty two thousand. Many knew them and me and it would be a great embarrassment to my parents whom I loved and who treated me well. I am glad I didn't have the choice to have an abortion because from the day my daughter was born she became the center of my father's life and a great joy to us all.

About twelve years later, with a new husband, I got pregnant again. This would be my third child. My youngest was about nine years old. My daughter was about eleven and had leukemia over a year. Abortion was available; my husband wanted me to have one. He said that with my daughter sick, it would be too difficult. I told him it would be killing the baby. He pressed; and I thought that I will have to listen to him for the next eighteen years about this if I do not agree.

I had an abortion. It wasn't long after, when my husband and I were together, that I said,"If you go forward, I will be pregnant and I will not abort this child." I got pregnant; my daughter still had leukemia when our son was born; and from the day the child was born, he became the delight of my husband, a joy and a diversion for my daughter and it caused none of the things I had feared. This time fear did not get in the way and kill my child.

Some people want to make an exception for rape or other circumstances, but a child can change something horrible into something beautiful. There is an evangelist on television that is doing great work in Africa bringing food, water, and love; he was born of rape. He was not aborted; what a loss it would

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