A response to a "pro-life" post

 A response to a shared post: 

"I'm not pro-murdering babies."

"I'm pro-Becky who found out at her 20 week anatomy scan that the infant she had been so excited to bring into this world had developed without life sustaining organs."

Ok, Becky, so why is that a justification to allow the child to be killed? 

"I'm pro-Susan who was sexually assaulted on her way home from work, only to come to the horrific realization that her assailant planted his seed in her when she got a positive pregnancy test result a month later."

Susan, why must the child die for the crimes of the father? 

"I'm pro-Theresa who hemorrhaged due to a placental abruption, causing her parents, spouse, and children to have to make the impossible decision on whether to save her or her unborn child."

Why is abortion necessary? Both mother and child should be considered for saving. 

"I'm pro-little Cathy who had her innocence ripped away from her by someone she should have been able to trust and her 11 year old body isn't mature enough to bear the consequence of that betrayal."

Yes, rape is traumatic, especially for a child that young. That still doesn't justify abortion. Consider Lina Medina from Peru, who was raped and gave birth at only 5 years old. Medina's son weighed 2.7 kg (6.0 lb; 0.43 st) at birth and was named Gerardo after her doctor. He was raised believing Medina to be his sister before finding out at age 10 that she was his mother. Her son grew up healthy. He died in 1979 aged 40 from bone marrow disease. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Medina 

"I'm pro-Melissa who's working two jobs just to make ends meet and has to choose between bringing another child into poverty or feeding the children she already has because her spouse walked out on her."

Melissa, here are 2 options for you other than abortion (notice how the pro-CHOICE side conveniently considers abortion as the ONLY possible choice. There are MANY crisis pregnancy centers from which to choose from. Let Them Live, Save the Storks, and SonRays Ministries, Inc. are three. These organizations provide financial and emotional support for women. You can also consider adoption if raising the child yourself isn't something you can handle.  

Let me put forth this scenario: would anyone reading this post advocate Melissa killing one of the children she already has? No? Why not?  And why is it ok to do to her developing child? 

"I'm pro-Brittany who realizes that she is in no way financially, emotionally, or physically able to raise a child."

Brittany, again see the choices above which are denied to you by those claiming to be pro-CHOICE. 

"I'm pro-Emily who went through IVF, ending up with SIX viable implanted eggs requiring selective reduction in order to ensure the safety of her and a SAFE amount of fetuses."

Emily, what happens when these fetuses grow up and realize they have a brother or sister that isn't there, that could've been there had you not had an abortion? There are many women who give birth to sextuplets without problems, such as former reality star Kate Gosselin, who refused selective reduction when it was offered. All the children are healthy.  

"I'm pro-Christina who doesn't want to be a mother, but birth control methods sometimes fail."

Christina, I've got a simple solution for you: don't have sex if you're not ready to be a mother, because if you consent to sex, you consent to the possibility of pregnancy. 

"I'm pro-Jessica who is FINALLY getting the strength to get away from her physically abusive spouse only to find out that she is carrying the monster's child."

Same as the response to Jessica. The child shouldn't die for the crimes of the father. There are choices offered to you, like I mentioned above, which are denied by the pro-CHOICE side. You can choose to adopt, or some women have even chosen to raise the child, recognizing that this child is unique and different and is a blessing and not a burden. 

"I'm pro-Vanessa who went into her confirmation appointment after YEARS of trying to conceive only to hear silence where there should be a heartbeat."

That sounds like a miscarriage, which contrary to the lies of the pro-abortion side, is not the same thing as getting an abortion. That's like comparing someone getting stabbed to death with someone dying from a heart attack. It is dishonest and frankly insulting to those who've had miscarriages, like my mom. 

"I'm pro-Lindsay who lost her virginity in her sophomore year with a broken condom and now has to choose whether to be a teenage mom or just a teenager."

Again, Lindsay, this is a consequence of sex out of wedlock. Don't have sex outside of marriage, and don't have sex if you're not prepared for the possibility of pregnancy. Condoms break. Plus, there's possibility of STDs. But again, you have the choices denied to you by pro-choicers which I outlined above. 

"I'm pro-Courtney who just found out she's already 13 weeks along, but the egg never made it out of her fallopian tube so either she terminates the pregnancy or risks dying from internal bleeding."

No, you never have to kill the baby to save the life of the mother. Even doctors who've performed abortions say so: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysl1tRnk-ig&t=2s... 

"You can argue and say that I'm pro-choice all you want, but the truth is:

I'm pro-life." (No, you're not. To be pro-life you must recognize first that the fetus is human in the womb and is worthy of protection. You don't get to redefine terms.) 

"Their lives.

Women's lives.

You don't get to pick and choose which scenarios should be accepted." (There are alternatives to all those scenarios which don't involve killing a baby.) 

"Women's rights are meant to protect ALL women, regardless of their situation!" (All women? What about the unborn women in the womb? Do they count? What about women who survived abortion attempts?  Human rights begin in the womb!) 

And ( from me!) and in no way do powerful and purchased men have anything to say what decisions a woman makes in her own health care." (First, abortion isn't healthcare because healthcare doesn't intentionally cause death. Second, if "in no way do powerful and purchased men have anything to say what decisions a woman makes in her own healthcare" then you have to render Roe v. Wade null and void, since it was decided by all men.) 

I want to emphasize that women seeking abortions are often scared and believe abortion to be their only option and are unaware of the help they can get from other areas that don't involve killing the baby. If you've had an abortion, there is healing and hope for you, predominantly found in the forgiveness offered by Jesus Christ. 

Notice, how in all these scenarios, however emotional they may be, the humanity of the fetus is never brought up. In a lot of them, though, they are not denying that a child's life is being ended.  

Consider these alternate scenarios, found on another page:

"I’m pro-Amy, who survived an abortion attempt at   approximately 28 weeks and was delivered at an abortion clinic. Amy has mild cerebral palsy and hearing loss as a result of the abortion attempt and her premature birth.

I’m pro-Denisha, who survived two chemical abortion pill attempts to abort her in the early trimesters of pregnancy. When it was discovered the abortion pill attempts didn’t “terminate the pregnancy, aka, end her life, a D & C was performed that also failed to take her life.

I’m pro-Robin, who survived multiple saline infusion abortion attempts, which should have poisoned and scalded her to death. Although the abortion didn’t end her life, it has led her to suffer from chronic health conditions that stymied the doctors even in her childhood, which she spent much of in the hospital, as she dealt with these issues.

I’m pro-Hannah, who was born at 28 weeks, and has struggled with “invisible” health issues, depression and anxiety throughout her young life, as she grapples with the weight of the grief she carries over her biological mother attempting to take her life.

I’m pro-Claire, who lost her twin to a brutal D & E abortion and carries the grief over losing her sibling and the guilt of surviving when they did not.

I’m pro-Jennifer, who’s only alive today because when the abortionist attempted to vacuum her head out of the womb and kill her, she was found to be much further along gestationally and he had to stop the procedure and attempt to persuade Jennifer’s biological mother to undergo a different abortion procedure.

These are REAL stories of abortion survivors. I could keep going hundreds of names long. there are 63 million stories we will never hear, because they didn’t survive. This is the reality of abortion.

Stories proved by The Abortion Survivors Network"

If you're still reading, I want you to do me a favor and imagine that the women in the first round of scenarios went for abortions and all the children managed to survive and those are their stories in the second half. If we appeal solely to emotion, which ones carry more weight? If you dismiss the second group, but stand with the first, do you really care about ALL women, or just the "convenient" ones? 

No matter the scenario, it will never change what abortion is: the violent taking of innocent life. I was born at 23 weeks, despite viability "starting" at 24 weeks. Here I am, 30 years later: a college graduate, a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon-do, a guy who struggles with mild cerebral palsy and a non-verbal learning disorder, but still manages to get to work when I'm scheduled. I'm human being, was, and still am.