Abortion
As the school bus rumbled past me, an angry high school student yelled obscenities at me from his open window. I was standing in front of a high school at 7 a.m. with an active pro-life family, holding posters showing aborted fetuses and signs saying, "Abortion Kills Children." The family had decided to go to area high schools and display their signs to high school students. Educating people about what abortion really is is important to me, so I had offered to go with them. Over the next two weeks, I went with them to several high schools and a few other places. Many people swore at us and "gave us the finger." Some people gave us a thumbs up as they drove by. And at least one lady was weeping as she drove by us. I didn't get up early and stand in the cold because I like to do that. I did it because I believe that every baby is a gift created and wanted by God. But abortions destroy that precious gift, causing great pain both for the mother and for the developing baby.
" Even if a low figure like 10% is taken, this would mean that 160,000 women per year suffer "serious" and "permanent" psychiatric problems resulting from abortions. " That's sixteen thousand "severely scarred" women every year. An abortion also hurts the mother. Why was one lady weeping as she drove by our signs? Possibly our signs had brought back guilty memories of an abortion she herself had had. At my conception, the newly formed cell contained all 46 chromosomes needed to form my body--a full package of instructions for every part of me. That last fact horrifies me, because at least half of the 1. By the end of the first four weeks I was fully formed, although I was only about the size of a pea. At about three weeks after my conception, my heart pumped my own blood through my body, and my heart beat was strong enough to be picked up by a sonogram. And according to another study, post-abortive women are nine times more likely to attempt suicide than women in the general population. During the ninth and tenth weeks, my nerve-muscle connections became stronger. The British Medical Journal, after reviewing psychological research on abortion, concluded that "almost all those [whose pregnancies were] terminated felt guilt and depression" for at least a brief period. All my body systems were present and functioning by about three months after my conception.
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