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When They Say You Say--Answering
the Pro-abortion Arguments
Editor's note. The following essay was written for the National Right to Life Pro-Life Essay Contest. Brianna Marie Hickey, Yountville, California, won second place at the junior level--grades 7-9. We live in a world where people have varying opinions on issues small and large. Whether you have faith or choose to live by a set of moral standards, one should, by nature, be able to determine if something is right or wrong. A huge issue in our world today is abortion, is it right or wrong? Our nature should tell us that it is wrong.
There was a recent story in the news about a woman who used to think abortions were justified because it was not a baby. Her mind was dramatically changed when she was helping hold the sonogram wand on the stomach of a patient, in an abortion clinic, and saw the baby fighting for its life. The baby was pulling back and trying to get away from the machine as the abortion proceeded. She could see that there was life, and in an instant it was gone. If it was not alive, why was it trying to stay alive? A common pro-abortion argument is that abortion does not hurt the women. Women are told it is painless, and that there are no long- term effects. There is much evidence to show that there are many physical and psychological effects, such as: sterility, miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies, stillbirths, bleeding and infections, intense pain, guilt, suicidal impulses, mourning, regret, low self esteem, inability to forgive self, and nightmares. This partial list should serve as a powerful answer. If it doesn't, then refer them to a group called WEBA (Women Exploited By Abortion), that says there are many other harmful effects too numerous to mention. Many on the pro-abortion side also love to say, "My body, my choice." That is true, it is your body, but whose body is the baby inside of you? The baby inside is an entirely different person, dependent on the mother, but it still is even at six months, or 5 years after birth. Do you think the baby would choose to die? What about that person's right to choose? In a world so concerned with protecting the environment and endangered species, how could we discard these beautiful gifts of life? Please send your comments to daveandrusko@gmail.com. |
Many
will say that a pre-born baby is
not a baby. I would simply ask
them, "What is it"? Is it a
carrot, turnip a mouse; no, it
is replicating DNA. The minute
conception happens [and] all
that baby will become is there.
The color of his or her eyes,
hair and skin, how big or small
he or she will be is all there.
Just because you can't see the
details or just because the baby
is small does not make the baby
less human. In Doctor Seuss'
book, "Horton hears a Who,"
Doctor Seuss writes, "a person
is a person no matter how
small." I would ask [those who
think the pre-born baby is not a
baby] if they think that they
magically became a human that
could feel and think when
someone saw their arms and legs
or heard their heart beat. I
would say that it was being
human from the beginning that
made their arms and legs grow
and their heart beat.