A Gift of Life

I read with horror that since Roe vs Wade was passed in 1971, over 46 million abortions have been performed in this country alone. Abortions are horrible and I am thoroughly against them not only because of the procedure itself murders a human being but because I am speaking from the viewpoint of a child who escaped the process itself.

I was born in 1967. My mother discovered that she was pregnant with me in the summer of 1966. My mother, a lifelong diabetic, was advised by her doctor that she should abort me instead of carrying me to term. He warned that carrying me would be an incredible burden to her body; putting a strain upon her kidneys and possibly costing my mother her own life.

My mother, raised a Catholic, scoffed at her doctor's suggestion and took it upon herself to carry me to full term. My mother and I both survived the birthing process and I was granted life. My mother was ill for some time but she did not die. An abortion, therefore, would have been pointless. My Mom was so determined to be a 'mother' that three years later, she gave birth to my brother. Again, she survived the process.

I am very grateful to my Mom that she took such a courageous stand. Because she did, I have experienced the joys of growing up in a family that loved me completely. I experienced sunrises, sunsets, laughter and sorrow. I learned to love to play baseball and to swim in the ocean. I saw the stars shine brightly at night and listened to birds sing in the sunlight. I learned to appreciate sublte joy of petting a cat and the brittle coldness of a snowball thrown in winter by my brother; laughing all the time.

I learned to read and to write. I learned about teamwork and about responsibility. I graduated high school and enlisted in the US Navy. I learned meteorology as a trade and even became somewhat of a writer.

I can play a harmonica and am learning the keyboard. I've also learned what it is to love someone and to have them love me back. I learned what it was like to be alive.

I never would have learned or experienced any of this had my mother been a selfish person and placed her own safety over mine.

As a survivor, I believe that every child has the right to know what it is like to be alive. They need to experience the same joys and sorrows that I did. These experiences make up that which we call life. It's an amazing journey.

Thank you, Mom.

A Blatant Disrespect For Life

The Democratic Party, the so-called Party of the People, continues to show itself to have a blatant disrespect for the authority of the Supreme Court and an even greater, and more blatant, disrespect for life. Not even a day after the Court passed a ruling upholding the ban upon partial-birth abortions, Senator Barbara Boxer of California and Rep. Jerold Nadler of Massachussetts co-sponsored a bill called "The Freedom of Choice Act". This Act, if passed, would circumvent the Court's ruling by making partial-birth abortions legal.

For a party which states it's concern over American casualties in Iraq, the Democrats seem to show little care for the deaths of American children. In 2005, there were 346,213 abortions performed in the United States alone. Since the ruling on Roe vs Wade in 1973, 48,589,993 abortions have been performed. Those numbers far surpass the total deaths of American soldiers in all the wars this nation has fought.

In addition to abortion, many Democrats ghoulishly still clamor for the stem cells taken from human embryos despite the fact that adult stem cells can be used in place.

The Democrats are no longer willing to discuss the issue of abortion and have taken on a smear campaign of the pro-life stand. On the website Democrats.com, the Democrats compared Republican pro-lifers to the Islamic fundamentalists who reside in Saudi Arabia. They additionally state that we have no regard for the health of women and yet, hypocritically, Democrats seem not to care about the health, or life, of that woman's unborn child.
Even removing the religious sentiments of many Americans, abortion is still murder. Any 8th grader in America can tell you that a baby is formed when a male sperm impregnates a female egg and begins to divide. That's called 'a living organism' people. It is not a virus or some bacteria which, if uncured, can cause a deadly disease; it's a developing human being.

The Democrats are are more worried about being popular than they are about doing what is the right thing to do. They say that history will be the judge of us and it will be curious to see what a generation, a hundred years from now, will say about the willing genocidal murder of 48 million unborn children.