How I have changed...

A few years ago...we'll say a decade and less, I was a huge supporter of NOW (National Organization of Women), because it put itself out there as a promoting of equal rights for women, for cracking down on abuse against women issues, and in the fight to end discrimination against women of all colors, sexual orientation, etc. which I was totally on board with and was excited about!

But, the whole abortion thing hurts. They now talk about having to win the fight against "fetal personhood". Because if we call a fetus a person, abortion will be murder.

Abortion is murder.

Even when I was pro-choice, I always was able to acknowledge that it was yet another form of murder, since we have so many legal ways for murder available in this country.



But, to read the language taken from the website:

"If this suggestion of personhood is established, the appellant's [Roe's] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life would then be guaranteed specifically by the [Fourteenth] Amendment.

In other words, if opponents can convince the Supreme Court that "times have changed" since Roe was decided and that a fetus should now be recognized as a "person" under the Constitution, then abortion would immediately become an act of murder in every state across the country."



The thing is, regardless of what the law reads...a fetus is a person.

When it is wanted, pro-choice people refer to it as a baby. As in, "Surprise, we're going to have a baby!"

When it is unexpected, unwanted, suddenly it doesn't count as one, for unknown reasons that break my heart.

No baby is a mistake. No baby did anything wrong by being created. Perhaps the circumstances leading up to conception were bad choices, perhaps even violent ones (though that percentage is FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR lower than pro-choice organizations would have you believe). But the baby itself has not done anything wrong.

That is why it is murder. Cold-blooded murder.

To hear about a baby being talked about so coldly hurts me so deeply, because I look at my two wonderful girls and I think about my little Adi who didn't get very far. And even though she was only eight weeks old in my womb when she stopped developing, I know she was human, that she was a person, that she was not just a random clump of blood and tissue. I saw her. I held her little body in my hand and she had arms and legs and a head...she was a person.

To deny that a fetus is not a human is so hard for me to understand. Yet, these are often times the same people who argue against capital punishment, war, torture...but somehow, a little, tiny, completely innocent baby is not worthy of being protected or respected.

That disconnect sends me reeling sometimes.

I don't know how to fix it. Well, that's not entirely true. I work with young people, teaching them how to respect themselves and others and to remain chaste outside of marriage. I work with young women, teaching them that saying 'no' to physical advances by young men is difficult, but shows how much they respect themselves and WOW - guys do respect that...at least, the guys worth spending time with respect it. Of course, I do all this 'ground work' within the teachings of the Catholic Church, so I am immediately discounted by people, which is a shame.

Although the Church is made up of sinners, some of whose sins are atrocious and hurt me deeply, the Church herself is perfect. Christ founded the Church, so it is perfect. That we are all sinners is something of a comfort to me because it reminds me that when I fall - so has everyone else, including Peter, and he's the ROCK of the Church.

So, although my voice, and those like mine will always be a quiet whisper in the din, I keep speaking, because if even one life may be inspired, even one life saved from abortion, one life given guidance to walk closer to the right path....a beautiful, wonderful, amazing thing has happepened.