Positive: the symbol that changes your life forever. You see it but think it must be some kind of a mistake. Test after test. They all come back the same. Positive, positive, positive. You think of your "options"; abortion seems like the only right answer. They say it is your only choice, but what is a choice when one feels suffocated making it? Your life plan is ruined. This unborn baby that should be a miracle feels like anything but.

You think of your parents, friends, relatives, boyfriend. An unmarried girl pregnant? What an embarrassment. You think of everyone that matters except for the one person that matters most, your baby. But this is not a baby yet right? The unborn baby is just a “lump of tissue”, or so you have been told. You tell yourself this lie to make yourself feel better because deep down you know that a baby is a baby at the moment of conception.

You refuse to imagine a child in your life. The patter of feet on the hardwood floor. The giggles that become contagious. The eyes that match your own. A smile that extends from ear to ear. No. It is too early for all of this, yet it is this. You are pregnant. There are no ands, ifs, or buts about it. You think that by ending the pregnancy, everything will go back to normal. Everyone tells you to “terminate” the pregnancy as if this procedure will take away the pain. They use these emotionless words to make ending a life ok.

Whether you like it or not, you are carrying a child. Deep down inside you, a baby is already calling you “mommy”. The child is asking you to keep it safe because although they call it “pro-choice”, what choice does this baby have? This child of yours is depending on you and only you because you are his/her mother and only shelter from the world that sees this unborn baby as nothing.

664,435 babies were aborted in the United States in 2013 according to the CDC. 664,435. That is almost 300,000 more than the number of graves at Arlington National Cemetery. Imagine 300,000 more white crosses, with a new one being added every few minutes. Abortion does not begin and end with the procedure. With negative effects physically and psychologically, abortion is not just a “simple fix”. Being pro-life in a pro-choice society means speaking for the unspoken and protecting the unprotected. Pro-life supporters focus on believing rather than seeing. We believe in the future child and future generations. We believe in giving everyone a chance, no matter their size. Because being a feminist is more than just protecting your own rights as a woman, but also protecting the rights of the women of future generations. Being pro-life doesn't mean you have no choice, it means you are making the choice to give a child life and a chance in this great big world of ours. Choose to lessen the white crosses rather than add to them. Choose the pathway of love and life.