Hi all! Im new to this site, but feel the need to tell my story. Perhaps it might make some people think.
I am 30 years old. My sister is 27. She has had two abortions in less than a year and I dont know how many more before that. It has torn my family apart.
I am a mother. I have two living children and two I lost because of a genetic disease (they were twins). When my sister told me she had had an abortion (August 2005), I was upset, disappointed and a lot of other things, but I realized I couldn't do anything about the past. I supported her the best I could and listened to her. Now, it's March and she came to me wanting 60.00 to complete the fee for another abortion. I wouldn't give it to her because I don't think abortion is right, no matter what the reason for it and I mean no matter WHAT the reason, with ONE single execption and Ill explain that later.
I'm not Christian. I haven't been since I was 18. I find the Christian church full of hypocrits (no reason to go into details why, just my opinion). I embraced the Wiccan faith about 8 years ago though. Our first and foremost "commandment" is "An Harm ye none, do as ye will." IMO, Abortion is harming not only the child, but the outcome of the entire universe.
Why? Well, first off when a woman has an abortion, she has no clue what the child will become if allowed to survive. What if that child is the one who holds the key to the cure for cancer? What if that child holds the answer to world peace, or any other scientific cure for anything inside them? The woman, by killing that child, is playing "god" by determining the fate of the world. (I put "god" in quotes because Im talking about a concept of a supreme being not any deity in particular or anything else.)
Secondly, what right does ANYONE have to say a child cannot live. Science says the term Viable means that the living thing is self-aware. Has anyone questioned a 10 week old fetus to see if it is aware that it's alive? Has anyone asked a dead baby killed by an abortion if it felt pain? I don't think so. Regardless of your opinion of abortion, I think we can all agree that if given the time to mature, the fetus/baby will be a human being at some point.
Personally, for this situation, my sister, who obviously feels NOTHING about having this done, is killing my niece or nephew because she doesnt want people in our small town gossiping about her having a child without being married. I can't get over it. She is having it done, but it's ruining my life. I can't see this being any different from her taking one of my kids or our parents out and killing them. It's been over ten years since I lost my twins, but I keep seeing their faces. Everything makes me cry about this. Maybe I just have issues, I dont know, but I've never been for abortion, I've never really cared one way or the other, and now I want to see it done away with completely because of this.
The only reason, I think, for an abortion to be performed and it be "right" is if the child will not survive anyways and the mother's life will be in danger if she tries to carry it. I cannot justify losing two people, when one could live. IMO, murder is murder no matter what (yes, I even feel this way about the death penalty). However, two lives should not be ended, when one can be saved.
My family is torn apart. I will never speak to her again. She was given the chance to have the child, at no cost to her and not having to pay any bills while carrying it, and still chose to do this. My parents are angry and disappointed because of it. They lost a grandchild. I lost my niece or nephew. My children lost their cousin. And all because of a choice she didn't HAVE to make. Abortion is a legal way to committ murder and it isnt right.
Thanks for reading