Your Body, Your choice.
I will always 100% be pro life personally because of my beliefs and my faith. I am also 100% for letting a grown woman choose what is best for them as long as they are educated in what their choices are and ready for the repercussions of their actions. For me personally the thought of terminating a pregnancy cuts so deep on many levels. One of these reasons being I'm adopted. If my birth mom decided I was an inconvenience I would not be around. My beautiful children wouldn’t be here. I would have never had the chance to make a difference in this world. Instead she chose to give the gift of life and allow my parents to have a child they most desperately wanted. I in turn had the best life possible and was given the chance to that.
Yes, your body, your choice. I will never judge a woman for what they decide is best for themselves (especially when rape is a factor). But I do feel like this needs to be more of a conversation for youth both boys and girls because the decision affects both. They need to know what a huge thing this is. Right now some of the narrative on this subject is making it seem like it isn’t a big deal. I have seen so many posts saying “so what they make a mistake it shouldn’t ruin their lives.” THIS is what a lot of the problem is right now. As parents we try to protect our kids too much, to the point of making them not responsible. When I was a kid there were consequences, if you made a life ruining mistake then you had to deal with that. Now, when a kid makes a mistake there are so many ways to just fix the situation for them.
Abortion is a life changing decision and for most it will affect them mentally, if not right away it will affect them later on. Regret doesn’t only happen right in that moment, it can take years for them to understand what they really did. The teenagers listening right now are learning they can be irresponsible and just get it taken care of if it inconveniences them. I do not care what you say, a fetus with a heartbeat is a BABY. If it has a heartbeat then it is a life. If the moment of death is considered when our heart stops then life should start when the heart starts. If we continue to say a life isn’t a life until birth it doesn’t seem like a big deal to terminate it. I coach 17 year olds and we have conversations about very mature subjects and these are actual comments a few of them had made. One actually said she wasn’t on birth control and if something happened “oh well, I’ll have it taken care of.”
I think we need to use this issue and bring awareness to this subject. No I don’t think the government should have any say on this. Just like I don’t think they should be able to tell me I can’t legally have a gun to protect myself. Make abortions illegal and more women will end up dying from botched abortions they try to do illegally. I think more focus needs to be on the education of this issue and not making it seem like not a big deal. Our education system is basically non existent on this subject and we should spend more time figuring out how to improve this instead of having internet fights.
We as women should be more supportive of one another instead of bickering like a bunch of high schoolers on Facebook. That doesn’t get us any closer to helping the situation, it just pulls us farther apart. A good, educated debate is constructive, it helps bring awareness but posting things that basically say “I’m right and you can’t change my mind no matter what you say” is not helpful.
