This tells of the event leading up to the Pro-Life marches I joined when I moved to Saint Louis. It involves a very good friend of mine that got pregnant at the age of 18. My ultimate goal with this post and all my posts on here or anywhere is to bring in other voices in the matter for which I write about. I know unity is the order of the day for politicians running in the race for the White House but I truly want to see other sides come together over issues like abortion, religion, and others. This is my last post for a while.
My friend Naomi had a good life ahead of her. She was a cheerleader, a very popular person in high school, and she was very smart. One day her world crashed before her like waves grasping the shore. She got pregnant. She came to me with questions, a sort of panic in her voice because she found herself a girl with great potential and dreams now having to deal with life altering event. I, being one of her good friends had to reassure her of something. I told her that being pregnant isn't the end of her world. She had said she was getting an abortion and I told her she was wrong. I told her that she wouldn't feel very good with herself if she did that. As someone who is pro-life I had to share with her other options that seem to get swept under the rug when dealing with the Shakespearean question:"To abort or not to abort" I told her about adoption and counseling. I told her that people on either side never really talk about those two alternatives to saving a life or aborting one. I told her that it's her right to choice but it's also the babies right to live. I drove her to an advisor I used to have in high school and she gave some good information to Naomi.
The moral of this story is that so often we get into these senseless debates over choice and pro-life. We never seem to talk about the other alternatives like adoption and/or counseling. I think it's important to give young women that option so they don't feel like villians or victims. We also forget that the child in this equation too has a right to live. I sympathize with young girls who aren't capable of caring for a child right now so I would encourage them to let another family have joy who can provide for a child through adoption. I would also like to see more counseling for young girls who feel they are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
So we should approach it with more solutions rather than the same old problems wrapped in different paper. I don't agree with the government's right to choose for you but I don't agree with abortion. I think if we really wanted to seek other ways we could. It all comes down to who wants to compromise.