Something
very special happens when a person gazes into the eyes of a child. The beauty
and innocents of that fresh face is enough to melt the coldest of hearts. The
birth of a child can bring overwhelming love, happiness and joy to the eyes of
the family. A newborn brings on new and
exciting challenges to first time parents and gives a huge sense of love and
pride to the family who are given a brand new addition and a guarantee that the
family line will continue. Unfortunately, some women chose to end the young
life that grows inside them.
Doctors
in the United States preformed 1.21 million abortions in 2005. According to www.womenscenter.com, 40% of
pregnancies among white women, 69% among blacks and 54% among Hispanics are
unintended. Oregonian women have had their share of abortions. It has been
reported by www.johnstonsarchive.net
that the Oregon has had 4,928 abortions in 2013. Linn County women experienced 165 abortions in
2012 and 139 in 2013 as public.health.oregon.gov tells us. It is sad that so
many Oregon women have chosen to take the life of their child.
One
of the organizations that have provided many of these life-ending choices is
the oxy-moron know as Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood does offer other
important services, like care for STDs, birth control, and men’s women’s
health, however, in 2012 51 percent of
Planned Parenthood’s yearly clinic income, their only self-sustaining revenue
source, comes from tax payer-funded abortion according to www.lifenews.com.
The
question many have asked is when life actually begins. This question seems to
make it easier for some women to end the life of their child. Perhaps the idea
that is the young life inside of them isn’t really a child, but just a glob of
cells. This is a futile notion. CNN reported that Dr. Joseph DeCook, executive
director of the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and
Gynecologists, has said an embryo is a living human being at the moment of
fertilization. Dr. Cook went on with “There’s no question at all when human
life begins, when the two sets of chromosomes get together, you have a complete
individual. It’s the same as you and I but less developed.”
It
seems to me when a woman goes for an abortion it is an incredible selfish act.
She will claim that is her body and her choice, however, for the next 9 months
she won’t be the only one in there. She may also say that there is no other way,
but there is always a way for the life of a child. I can maybe see the use for
an abortion if the birth is complicated and the mother’s and child’s life is in
danger, but even under rape or incest, if the mother doesn’t need or want the
reminder of a truly traumatic experience, someone will want to adopt the child
no matter the mother’s back ground.
The
life of a child is truly a blessed gift from God, so why would we just throw
them away? Let’s end most of these senseless murders and not have any more forever
lost children.
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