A Personal Look at the Abortion Culture

During my college years I had a friend who got caught up in the hook-up culture. Once she told me that if she ever got pregnant, she would have an abortion. I told her she couldn't, that it was murder. She stated that she couldn't face a pregnancy and would have an abortion.

The abortion debate took on a different angle when I discovered another friend's father had performed abortions in the 1970's. It was during my discussions with her that I learned that she saw abortion as a solution to a problem.

During my senior year at Penn State a friend with a serious boyfriend found out that she was pregnant. The boy's parents wanted proof he fathered the child before he would pay for his 'mistake' even though everyone knew they had been together for a long time. Lucky for her she told her parents she was pregnant. Her parents told the boy's family that they would help their daughter raise the child without him. A few years later another man married her and adopted her son.

My brother told me about another friend of ours who ended up driving a coworker to an abortion clinic. Her coworker had Multiple Sclerosis and was told by her doctor a pregnancy would make her MS worse and so she had an abortion at the doctor's recommendation.

During this time I visited a lady at a nursing home who had no children and MS, and she was very lonely. I was her only visitor as her husband had died years before. I thought of the other woman with MS who aborted her child. I wondered if she would someday regret that she aborted the child that would have been her joy in her years with MS. No doctor can ease loneliness.

I have lived my entire life in a country with legal abortion. Abortion is held up as a easy solution for an “unplanned pregnancy.”

The abortion culture tells us the ending of a pregnancy is a good thing. Maybe for a short time the missing child goes unnoticed, but a woman can never fully forget there was a little one inside her once, because we are designed to love.

Truthfully, the idea of a planned anything is ridiculous. Human beings make mistakes. It isn't the mistakes that defines us, but what we do with the mistakes.

As I grew up, I noticed the girls who had unplanned pregnancies seemed to choose life because they had someone telling them that they could do this thing called “unplanned parenthood.”

The real world is full of happy accidents, happy later on when the crisis has passed.

Giving women access to abortion is a hateful act. It says society hates their children. Laws are passed because those who want to sweep unplanned lives into trash cans sleep better at night knowing they succeeded in their planned society.

We have a better plan called Divine Right. It is the Divine Creator's right over us to use the sin to save the sinner. An unplanned pregnancy gives us a choice to do what is good or what is evil.

Let us not pretend that abortion is not killing. It is.

We are obliged to teach those who are young why it is so evil, because society's pretty words paint abortion as glamorous, chic and adult. It has been sold to the young this way--as an evil crafted into a good.

Aborted lives haunt us like a ghost of what could have been if we were brave and did the right thing.

We have to live with the full horror of who was killed when the truth finally is revealed to us either in this life or the next. When a culture allows for abortion, we all share in the sin of it. Only through our rejection of abortion can we change hearts which is what God calls us to do.

The Father of Lies was a murderer from the beginning. The abortion culture shares in his shame.