Stripes and babies. This little fella is enjoying time in mommy and making his sister wait to meet him. We are so excited to have this little man in our family and are so proud of his decision to come to this earth. This beautiful, interesting, cultural, and amazing world!
I recently had a friend say, "You are brave for bringing a child into this crazy world." This world is a little crazy, I agree. There are things that happen and are thought that make my head spin sometimes. Recently the biggest one has been the topic of abortion and selling parts of the babies bodies. This is wrong. As a pregnant mother of a 1 1/2 year old it makes me sick to even think about. While I have watched, read and listened to arguments and defenses on both sides I feel strongly to stand for life and humanity. People walk a fine line when they are determining when life "begins" and when something is truly "human." No matter what stage a fetus is in, it's human, sorry! Then there is the whole freeedom of choice and protecting people's rights. If you don't want to have a child, then that is YOUR choice and you need to make the solution affect YOU. Get your tubes tied if that's your decision. Don't go and get pregnant and then decide if another human being gets to live or not. Responsibility has been overrided by "pro-choice." Many say, if a woman is raped or didn't choose to get pregnant it's her right to end the pregnancy. But two wrongs do not make a right! These are children and human beings we are deciding to kill. The name of the company targeted with this subject is called, "Planned Parenthood" which I think is funny and ironic because you "didn't plan it", "don't want it", or are "getting rid of it." That doesn't seem planned at all, and you're denying a child of parents, "parenthood."
Parenthood is a great responsibility and if you choose to become pregnant and don't want to step into that role than give the child for adoption to those who do. You should not be allowed to kill a child just because it's not convienant timing, or you don't want to take the responsibility, or you weren't prepared to be a parent yet. You're dealing with someone else's life at the point you conceive. Don't be selfish and act like it is just yours!
My mind turns to the great singer, Andrea Bocelli. His mother had encouragement to have an abortion and she chose not to. How thankful he must be for a mother who chose life!! And how thankful I am that he lived to share his talents with this world. I may not be the smartest chick in the flock and I know there are cases where abortion may be the only option for safety of a mother, but I can bet that is EXTREMELY rare. For the hundreds of abortions happening why is that the decision? Is it teen pregnancies, is it women who just didn't plan on this 'inconvenient' baby....whatever the case, these women are putting their lives above someone else's that they decided to create. Take responsibility. If you're so pro-choice and life than make sure you make the choice not to get pregnant if you don't want a baby!!!!!!!!!!
So, my dear friend may be right about this crazy world and who knows what it will be like when my children are older, but they will KNOW the power of their choices. They will know that there are bad and good choices. They will know there are consequences for your choices. And I pray they will always choose the right way and then learn when they don't. We all do have the power to choose, but that doesn't make every choice right. Abortion is wrong, in my opinion, and our society needs to teach the importance of responsibility more!! We need to fix the roots of problems and if there are so many women with unplanned, unwanted or unintended pregnancies, why!?!? Let's fix THAT instead of killing the fetus/child that was created as a result. Be responsible people of the world! Take care of human life! Have dignity for the precious and beautiful process of bringing a human into this world! You were once conceived and grew within a womb, all of us were, don't take that away from 100's of other humans!
