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Why I Am Pro Life
24 October 2004
I used to be pro choice. It's a choice, not a baby. It's just some cells. Fetal rights are just an excuse for fundamentalists to oppress women and control their sexuality. I can't believe that anymore. This is why. This is an image of my baby daughter Stephanie at the very beginning of the third trimester, taken with 3D ultrasound:
This is an image of my baby daughter Stephanie about one year later:
This is Stephanie fairly recently, approaching two, with pasta sauce:
I just can't buy into the notion that it's morally acceptable to kill something like that first picture. I can't accept that it would have been more OK if it had been done three weeks earlier, or thirteen weeks earlier. I understand that it's a continuum; I also begin to understand and accept the idea that we don't get to decide where on that continuum it starts or stops being OK to kill. I don't have easy answers to the problems that an unwanted child can cause in someone's life; I wish I did, but I don't. All I know is that there are no acceptable answers that encompass it being all right to extinguish the tiny human that I first laid eyes on while she slept in her mother's womb. Happy 2nd birthday, Stephanie. I am so glad to have you. Robert @ 13:56 | | | . | E-Mail This Post |
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