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madameveritas:

I’m very sorry that you had to undergo that. Let me share sympathy from the deepest innermost part of my heart. The plight of women in situations such as that are actually motivations for me to become pro-life, however.

Rape is not a choice.
Financial crisis is not a choice.
Abusive situations are not a choice.
Health problems aren’t a choice.

So why does the pro-choice movement insist on these situations being the real embodiment of “choice?” Is it really a choice to be ill? Is it really a choice to be forced by a partner? Is it really a choice to be forced because you aren’t financially able? Is it really a choice because you were raped? Surely not. If a person holding you hostage said you had to shoot someone close to you, is that actually a choice? Yeah, sure technically you have “options.” Surely these aren’t pro-choice situations. The only situation in which abortion is actually a choice is when pregnancy is a mere inconvenience for the mother. The only situation in which abortion is actually a choice is when a woman already has kids or doesn’t want a child.

So don’t think I don’t have regard for your situation. That wasn’t much of a choice to go through what you did. So please know I do care for you and I pray for people like you all the time.

But NONE of that changes the fact that an unborn child is still nonetheless a child. There are things we can do that make life soooooooo much easier but that doesn’t mean they are right or justified. Slavery is an example. Slavery allowed people to live and grow comfortably with little hardship. Slavery was also…slavery, it enslaved and dehumanized people and tore apart families. In fact, when we took away slaves, many people suffered. Whole people starved and became destitute and were forced to do awful things. But did any of that mean slavery was correct? Did any of that mean slavery was moral or justified? Did any of that mean slaves were really not people?

Again. Your situation is rare but it still does happen. It still is a massive struggle and you bear incredible pain, a cross you did not even choose to carry. But the “solution” to your situation came at the very high cost of the death of a human being. It may have done you wonders, but at someone’s ultimate cost. I’m not calling you selfish, you did what you did to survive how you were taught to survive, I don’t blame you, but I do see a clear injustice and a clear imbalance of morality.

People don’t choose all of their struggles. I didn’t choose to have my struggles. You didn’t choose yours. People don’t choose to have mental illness or cancer or sudden deaths in the family or abusive situations. In fact, we often suffer unwillingly from the choices of others. I didn’t choose how and when and where I was born, but that doesn’t mean I have the right to do awful things. Even if what I went through was horrific. Even if no one should go through what I went through. I still don’t have the justification to hurt other human beings so that I may hurt less, or to use them at their expense so that I may benefit.

On a religious note, even Jesus didn’t choose his cross. He actually prayed that He wouldn’t go through the struggle because He foresaw what was to happen. I mean, whether or not you’re religious, you gotta admit that it was an incredible horror. Lashed with whips and blades until the body is raw and bloody and forced to carry a horribly heavy cross on that same broken body, only to be nailed through hands and feet and hung up, lanced in the gut, hanging for three days…I mean, He didn’t ask for it, He prayed not to do it, I mean, GOD prayed not to struggle! Seems odd that GOD wouldn’t want to struggle. And still, despite praying, despite earnestly wishing and wanting and so deeply longing with every fiber and cell and component to not have this pain, He still willingly took it up. He understood He still had to bear it even if it would cause Him the greatest of pains and He took it up anyway, because by refusing the cross He would be forsaking all of humanity. And in His love He couldn’t betray man, He couldn’t say no, He couldn’t be happy and content and peaceful at our expense. Sometimes, as human beings, this is what we must do, too.

We don’t choose our struggles. My God, we don’t ask for any of it. But that doesn’t mean we sacrifice our fellow man and forsake human beings! It’s not simple or easy but it’s the right thing!