Yesterday in EMC I talked with a girl, with a beautiful flower name. Let's call her Lilly.
Lilly is 19, she has a 3 years old son but he is with the father, and she is fighting for custody. She just left her last boyfriend and moved back with her mom. The guy was 37 and somewhat abusive... Now she is pregnant and wants an abortion.
This is a very sad situation. I think all women getting pregnant without wanting it are facing some degree of tragedy.
But is it a reason to have an abortion?
Yes Lilly is going through some difficult times. But how is an abortion going to make that any better? Or any different for what matters?
She already made some great decisions by leaving the last guy and fighting for custody.
Why does Lilly want to abort? She didn't have any "particular reason" it's just not the right time.
I understand how her situation is not the best to have a child, but does it mean it's better to terminate the fetus?
I just feel so sad that a mother, fighting for her little boy, couldn't care less about her other child, because he/she hasn't been born yet.
What's wrong with the human mind that someone can make you believe a fets is not your child yet, because "it" is still inside you.
I mean what's wrong? How can that happen? Why are we so twisted???? An unborn baby should be in the safest place in the world, in his own MOTHER's womb, INSIDE her. A fetus IS NOT part of the woman's body. I'm sorry but there's no way you can't realize it's not all about the woman, there is a second human there.
How can abortion even be an option?
Why is it easier for a girl to get rid of her child by abortion than by adoption??
Previously "a frog's life", we now are settled in France, probably for a few more years. We now have two kids and big plans for our little garden. A sort of old fashioned American homestead 20 miles from Paris.
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I don't know why. I suspect they've never been enlightened by a better example??
It does seem so hard to understand how someone couldn't connect that it's a baby. I think the media and schools calling unborn babies a "fetus" seems to desensitize it a bit.
I was faced with an unexpected pregnancy once, and it was very scary. For the first time in my life, I could understand how someone could be so scared of what was going to happen to them that they would want an abortion. At that point, you don't stop and think much about the unborn child, you think about how it's going to affect you and your fear consumes you.
That very same baby that I was so scared about having has ended up being such a huge blessing to me. I look at her and I think, "how could I have ever worried so much about having her?". She's so sweet- I can't imagine life without her now. I shouldn't have let other people's opinions and my own fear keep me from having the joy of expecting a child.
If only other women faced in scary situations could look past the fear and see that things will be okay on the other side, they might make different choices regarding their, "fetus".
I have always wondered why it is okay to murder a baby because it is small and unable to speak for itself, but any kind of animal abuse gets major headlines. This culture allows the killing of our own children, why do we care so much about cats and dogs?
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