The future is starting to look bright for our unborn
children. In my home state of Indiana, a
bill is being proposed that requires an ultrasound before and after administering
a drug known as RU-486, according to an article by lifesitenews.com. RU-486 is a contraceptive, or an
abortion-inducing drug. As state senator
Travis Holdman said, “We're just trying to control and regulate
abortion-inducing drugs, which heretofore have not been regulated by the state
of Indiana. I don't believe we're asking for anything that's unreasonable.
We're talking about the life of the mother and the child.”
The Planned Parenthood facility in Lafayette, IN
said that it may be forced to close down if the bill is passed. Wait a second. They will be forced to close if they have to
give an ultrasound before giving an abortion inducing drug? Does something seem wrong with this picture? Here’s the thing: they are right. They probably will have to close. According to the executive director of an Iowa
pregnancy resource center, 90% of women who see their baby choose to give
birth. That’s pretty significant. Ultrasounds are the death of what Planned
Parenthood stands for: the death of unborn children.
Ultrasounds are key in the battle for our children’s
lives. Pregnant teens are told that what
is inside of them is nothing more than a mass of tissue; sure, it could become
a baby, but it won’t if you don’t let it.
When these young, impressionable mothers see the reality on the screen:
the baby’s fingers, head, and face moving,
the reality becomes irrefutable. No
amount of justification, lies, or scientific jargon can refute the simple
truth: it is a baby.
So what about the other 10%? If it is so overwhelmingly obvious that it is
a baby, why do the other 10% go through with it? I can’t answer that question for them, but I
can show what I believe may be the reason.
You would think that upon the realization that this is a baby, a
helpless human being, that we are killing, that we would immediately stop. Unfortunately, this isn’t the case. Mary Elizabeth Williams, a writer who has written
for the New York Times, The Nation,
and other publications, wrote an article in which she said, “When we try to act
like a pregnancy doesn’t involve human life, we wind up drawing stupid semantic
lines in the sand.” Sounds pretty good
right? Except it didn’t end there. She went on to say “Here’s the complicated
reality in which we live: All life is not equal...a fetus can be a
human life without having the same rights as the woman in whose body it
resides. She’s the boss. Her life and what is right for her circumstances and
her health should automatically trump the rights of the non-autonomous entity
inside of her. Always.”
This statement left me in shock. It made me realized a horrifying truth: while
people are realizing that a fetus is indeed a human baby, some are not allowing
that to change their stance on abortion.
Instead, some are saying that women have the right to kill their children
(just as long they are inside of them and not outside of them).
Here’s the good news: the legislation that Indiana
is putting forth is an indicator that not everyone is going along with this
trend. Keep praying and keep talking
about it, and with God’s help, we can make this generation the one that owns up
to the horror that abortion truly is.
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