It shouldn't come as a big surprise to anyone that I don't agree with abortion. After all, you may notice from my previous articles that I am very Christian. While it's true that the Bible says, "Thou Shall Not Kill", you also have to look at science and realize that the heart is beating just 24 days after conception. My personal feeling is that abortion is not the right answer to any pregnancy, planned or not. Nine months isn't all that long to sacrifice for another human being to have a chance at life, and there is always adoption. To choose abortion out of convenience is, in my opinion, extremely selfish.
That being said, I don't necessarily believe that abortion should be illegal. Surprised ya, didn't I? But you have to look at the facts. People were performing abortions long before Roe V. Wade. People will find a way if they want to. Many of these alternate ways are unsafe and can lead to death. There is always going to be people who choose abortion. I don't think we should force scared young women to seek unsafe abortion procedures because we criminalize abortion.
Now, one could argue that if it weren't legal, simply more women would choose not to get an abortion. Maybe adoption would become more prevalent. Do my conflicting feelings make me "Pro-Choice?" I don't believe I fit the description of someone who is Pro-Choice. I don't believe in the silly "MY body, MY right" slogan. If you truly believe that every body has rights, what about the body of the baby growing inside of you? So, does not voting to end abortion mean I support a woman's right to CHOOSE? Because I don't. I don't believe a woman has the right to choose to kill her baby. I don't WANT anyone to choose abortion. I don't AGREE with the abortion choice. I don't believe its MY BODY MY RIGHT, but yet I don't want anyone to DIE when undergoing back-alley abortions. I guess I believe they should have the option to have a medically safe abortion. Option=choice, right? So, Pro-Choice? Ugh. I don't want to call myself that.
I wonder if women who have had abortions have even see their baby on an ultra sound... to see its legs, its head, its eyes, and its tiny little feet, and still choose abortion? I don't know how anyone can do that. To see the baby before an abortion would be, for at least a minute, giving that little baby a voice. A chance to say, "Here I am! See my tiny little fingers? Hear my heart beating?" Some may argue that it is cruel to force a mother to see her baby on an ultra sound before having an abortion, but how cruel is it to kill that little baby without giving it a fighting chance?
