Pro-Life? You Betcha!

Prickly issue isn’t it? Abortion.  I was just watching Boston Legal, where a young girl takes a catholic doctor to court for his refusal to prescribe the morning after pill to her after she was brutally raped in order to prevent pregnancy. And of course she falls pregnant. (She wins the case and though morally against abortion, goes ahead and has one anyway) Now  I am morally opposed to abortion. However, I respect that not every body shares my belief system. 

Which puts me in a quandry. I am morally opposed to the disposal of any life by unnatrual means. Had the older women in my life chosen abortion there is a very good chance that my cousin, myself and my sister would not be here today.

My cousin is 34. His mother fell pregnant with him at 13. (She was 14 by the time she gave birth. ) Under todays circumstances, very few people would bat an eyelid at the idea of a 13 year old having an abortion.  Not only did my aunt give birth, she is still married to my cousins father today. (Our family is very catholic) Abortion was never an option. 

My mother was 17, unmarried and in an abusive relationship when she gave birth to me. Again, I believe few people would have condemned her had she aborted me. She did not. She left my father and when she got married her husband legally adopted me as his child.

21 years ago, my step mother was raped. By a man she trusted. She was violated and vicously beaten. She fell pregnant as a result of that attack. Nine months later my sister was born. Of course, biologically she isn’t my sister. My step mother did not tell anyone of her ordeal. (My father was a violent alcholic, he just asumed her battered face and growing belly was due to him) Eventually my father did find out. But by then, my sister was already considered my sister, I love her. No matter how she was concieved. As does my step mother, our siblings and our father. She loves her daughter, never once entertained the notion of aborting her. (And she’s not catholic, she’s Wiccan) 

So due to my morals and my family background, I find it very, very hard to find a reason that justifies abortion. My family is far from perfect. We put the fun in dysfunctional. And reguardless of their faults, the women in my family have shown me and my siblings time and time again that life rarely turns out the way YOU think it should, but always the way God intended.  My sister proves that even a baby conceived under the most violent of circumstances is not an inconvience or an iterruption, but a life. A valid, beautiful, intelligent and  loving life. I simply cannot imagine life without her.

I really shouldn’t watch tv in front of the computer!