Reaction to AL/GA Heartbeat Law
The World’s Idea Of Pro-Life:
“You deny women her rights!”
Pro-Lifers’ Idea Of Pro-Life:
Jesus Followers’ Idea Of Pro-Life:
“Care for the baby and the woman.”
“Care for the abortion workers.”
“Support the woman whether she has an abortion or not.”
“Offer to adopt her baby and provide support before and after.”
“Promote safe-sex. While we believe in abstinence, our friends may not and so they deserve to know how to be safe.”
-A baby is a baby. A clump of cells is an irrelevant argument because if you cut off a piece of your skin, it isn’t going to grow into a baby. Only a fertilized egg can turn into a baby.
-Also, a clump of living cells on any other planet would be considered evidence of life, why not a fetus?
-The saving One toddler or the 500 embryos isn’t a viable argument either because that situation is a matter of extreme coincidence. And if you want to argue it, it’s the question of would you kill one to save 500? It is up to the person doing the rescuing. I can’t speak for them. Personally, I would choose the toddler. Because even though I believe that those embryos are alive, they can’t feel pain yet. The toddler can.
-As for the pain, a fetus can start feeling pain anywhere between 8 to 20 weeks. Being ripped apart hurts.
-Heartbeat! If you are dead when your heart stops, why aren’t you alive when it starts?
-Black women are 4-5 times more likely to have an abortion. This is an injustice to black women.
-Women are more likely to have chronic depression after having an abortion. It may also affect their future reproductive health if they decide they want more kids later on.
-Whether you are pro-life or pro-choice, you are failing if you do not go to the closest pregnancy center and support women. This is a hard one, trust me, I fail too. But I’m trying.
Christians need to step up and support women no matter what. Encourage them not to have an abortion by support or adoption, but be there for them if they do have an abortion anyways.
This is the only solution. I hate the idea of women getting back alley abortions. I hate the idea of Planned Parenthood selling abortion (PP is another debate for another time). I hate the idea of a woman who is crying alone and doesn’t know what to do with the child inside of her.
My reasons for not allowing abortion even in rape or incest:
I held a beautiful baby one time. Holding that baby was the first time I said, “This is what I want to do for the rest of my life.”
The baby was in foster care because their mother had a breakdown. The mother did the right thing and went to the hospital so she didn’t hurt herself or her baby, but her baby had been conceived in rape. Her mother flew in from across the country to take care of the baby, but I wish... I wish that somebody had stepped up before she had gotten to that point. We should have been there for her. But you can’t tell me that baby should have died. We should have walked with the mother every step of the way. That mother and that baby both deserve life.