Pro-Choice // No Choice // Training
I am not going to preface this article as I usually do with a personal
anecdote or cute little quippy statement. I am not going to tell you that you
should be pro-choice or impose my views on you. In fact, if you continue, I
think that you will understand I will not endorse that type of thing. Here goes
nothing:
The Right to Choose.
I believe that women should have a choice over what they do with their body. I believe that woman should have control over what they do to their body. A woman, however, is making her choice far before that little pink plus sign on the little white stick dripping with urine. Her choice is before she swallows that pill that will thin out her endometrium and prevent the implantation of her child. She is choosing to risk pregnancy in the act of having sex. No, sex is not an accident. Very bluntly, you cannot accidently have a penis slip into your vagina. When a woman chooses to have sex, she is making her choice. Her choice should not be between raising the child her and her lover created and killing, it should be between having sex or not.
Pregnancy Protection.
Women should be able to choose to prevent pregnancy and the absolute best contraceptive method is abstinence. It has been one hundred percent effective. The best way to prevent pregnancy is to abstain. Contraceptives fail and once a new being is created, the woman is carrying a human being inside of her: she is pregnant. The morning after pill, Plan-B, the abortion pill, and surgical abortions all stop a human life and do not prevent pregnancy as their primary goal. Even hormonal contraceptives thin out the endometrium, which causes early abortions. On average, every year a sexually active woman is on the pill she has one abortion. Because of the hormonal suppression and exposure, the woman’s body is not allowed to go through its cycles like normal and pregnancies still occur. It is a lose-lose situation.
A Right to Her Own Body.
A woman has a right over her body. However, when she is pregnant, she is no longer just in charge of her body, but she is entrusted with another body for nine months. Scientifically, the zygote is recognized as its own separate being. In other words, the scientific community (textbooks and researchers) acknowledge that the baby is a human being (meaning it does have inherit rights and dignity) from the moment of fertilization (the fusion of the egg's nucleus and the sperm's nucleus forming a zygote, or diploid cell, from two haploid gametes. Whoa! I just nerded out!) The baby has a different DNA code from the moment of fertilization. The baby is its own unique being from the moment of conception. It is a self-healing and self-replicating being from the moment of fertilization and this is what is required from a living creature, ergo, the baby is a baby from fertilization. The cells are not only self-replicating, growing, and self-healing, but the cells become differentiated cells, which actually separates them from other self-replicating cells (i.e. Cancer) because the ability to go from undifferentiated cells to differentiated cells.
Rape, Incest, and Health of the Mother.
In these cases (which make up less than two percent of the abortions in America), the woman did not choose. She did not choose to have sex. She did not choose to be violated. She did not choose complications in her pregnancy that are now risking her life. She did not choose to have a biologically compromised baby with a relative. She did not choose. However, she does have power over the baby's life. She can choose to give that baby life, even if it means she has to carry it for nine months. She can choose to make her bad experience into a miraculous event. In life of the mother cases, doctors do not kill the baby, but instead try to give both patients (mother and child) the greatest chance for survival and this sometimes results in the death of the baby, but the intention of the doctors is not to kill the baby. Medicine is full of these choices and sometimes the doctor must choose the patient who has the higher likelihood of survival.
Contraceptives fail.
The fact of the matter is that two-third of unplanned pregnancies are from contraceptive failure. In other words, the best prevention is abstinence. Unless a woman is financially, emotionally, physically, and psychologically ready for pregnancy, she should not be having sex. Even "safe sex" still puts women at risk for pregnancy and STDs. The best contraceptives still fail. And when they do, we have women who should not be having sex because they are not ready to have a baby getting pregnant because the condom broke or she forgot to take her pill at the right time of the day.
Family Planning.
We should be planning for families. Women should not be having sex until they are ready to be pregnant, but natural methods are proven more successful for preventing or causing pregnancy than unnatural methods such as contraceptives. Natural family planning is paying attention to a woman's natural cycles: hormones and ovulation and having sex at the optimal times for fertilization if pregnancy is the desired result or at other times of the month (during the follicular stage of her menstrual cycle) if no pregnancy is desired. Paying attention to her body is going to be more successful than unnatural contraceptive methods and leads to healthier relationships later on when she does want to have children. Natural planning does not have any negative side effects on becoming pregnant later on in life.
The Exception.
The cases that make up less than two percent of abortions are the exceptions and if we allowed abortions in just these cases, I would be fine. I think that would be a huge win in the Pro-Life community. I do not think that there is a good reason for abortion, but the minority of them are even these exceptions. I would not want to stop at having these exceptions remain legal, but it is a mighty good place to start. A W is still a W and the criminalization of abortion (obviously against the abortionists and not the mothers are the perpetrators) with these exceptions or even just the illegalization of abortion, excluding the exceptions would be a giant W (win) for the Pro-Life cause.
The Rule.
The choice should not be about ending the life of another human being (your own baby, your offspring). The choice should be to abstain from sex until you are ready to be pregnant, even if you are going to put it up for adoption, you still must be ready for pregnancy. A life is life from fertilization (when the sperm enters the nucleus of the egg) to natural death.
I wrote this in December at my first Pro-Life training. Beginning another week of training sounds daunting and exhausting, but I am fully prepared to begin this week and become more prepared and inspired to fight for those who cannot fight for themselves, to fight for the right to life.
The Right to Choose.
I believe that women should have a choice over what they do with their body. I believe that woman should have control over what they do to their body. A woman, however, is making her choice far before that little pink plus sign on the little white stick dripping with urine. Her choice is before she swallows that pill that will thin out her endometrium and prevent the implantation of her child. She is choosing to risk pregnancy in the act of having sex. No, sex is not an accident. Very bluntly, you cannot accidently have a penis slip into your vagina. When a woman chooses to have sex, she is making her choice. Her choice should not be between raising the child her and her lover created and killing, it should be between having sex or not.
Pregnancy Protection.
Women should be able to choose to prevent pregnancy and the absolute best contraceptive method is abstinence. It has been one hundred percent effective. The best way to prevent pregnancy is to abstain. Contraceptives fail and once a new being is created, the woman is carrying a human being inside of her: she is pregnant. The morning after pill, Plan-B, the abortion pill, and surgical abortions all stop a human life and do not prevent pregnancy as their primary goal. Even hormonal contraceptives thin out the endometrium, which causes early abortions. On average, every year a sexually active woman is on the pill she has one abortion. Because of the hormonal suppression and exposure, the woman’s body is not allowed to go through its cycles like normal and pregnancies still occur. It is a lose-lose situation.
A Right to Her Own Body.
A woman has a right over her body. However, when she is pregnant, she is no longer just in charge of her body, but she is entrusted with another body for nine months. Scientifically, the zygote is recognized as its own separate being. In other words, the scientific community (textbooks and researchers) acknowledge that the baby is a human being (meaning it does have inherit rights and dignity) from the moment of fertilization (the fusion of the egg's nucleus and the sperm's nucleus forming a zygote, or diploid cell, from two haploid gametes. Whoa! I just nerded out!) The baby has a different DNA code from the moment of fertilization. The baby is its own unique being from the moment of conception. It is a self-healing and self-replicating being from the moment of fertilization and this is what is required from a living creature, ergo, the baby is a baby from fertilization. The cells are not only self-replicating, growing, and self-healing, but the cells become differentiated cells, which actually separates them from other self-replicating cells (i.e. Cancer) because the ability to go from undifferentiated cells to differentiated cells.
Rape, Incest, and Health of the Mother.
In these cases (which make up less than two percent of the abortions in America), the woman did not choose. She did not choose to have sex. She did not choose to be violated. She did not choose complications in her pregnancy that are now risking her life. She did not choose to have a biologically compromised baby with a relative. She did not choose. However, she does have power over the baby's life. She can choose to give that baby life, even if it means she has to carry it for nine months. She can choose to make her bad experience into a miraculous event. In life of the mother cases, doctors do not kill the baby, but instead try to give both patients (mother and child) the greatest chance for survival and this sometimes results in the death of the baby, but the intention of the doctors is not to kill the baby. Medicine is full of these choices and sometimes the doctor must choose the patient who has the higher likelihood of survival.
Contraceptives fail.
The fact of the matter is that two-third of unplanned pregnancies are from contraceptive failure. In other words, the best prevention is abstinence. Unless a woman is financially, emotionally, physically, and psychologically ready for pregnancy, she should not be having sex. Even "safe sex" still puts women at risk for pregnancy and STDs. The best contraceptives still fail. And when they do, we have women who should not be having sex because they are not ready to have a baby getting pregnant because the condom broke or she forgot to take her pill at the right time of the day.
Family Planning.
We should be planning for families. Women should not be having sex until they are ready to be pregnant, but natural methods are proven more successful for preventing or causing pregnancy than unnatural methods such as contraceptives. Natural family planning is paying attention to a woman's natural cycles: hormones and ovulation and having sex at the optimal times for fertilization if pregnancy is the desired result or at other times of the month (during the follicular stage of her menstrual cycle) if no pregnancy is desired. Paying attention to her body is going to be more successful than unnatural contraceptive methods and leads to healthier relationships later on when she does want to have children. Natural planning does not have any negative side effects on becoming pregnant later on in life.
The Exception.
The cases that make up less than two percent of abortions are the exceptions and if we allowed abortions in just these cases, I would be fine. I think that would be a huge win in the Pro-Life community. I do not think that there is a good reason for abortion, but the minority of them are even these exceptions. I would not want to stop at having these exceptions remain legal, but it is a mighty good place to start. A W is still a W and the criminalization of abortion (obviously against the abortionists and not the mothers are the perpetrators) with these exceptions or even just the illegalization of abortion, excluding the exceptions would be a giant W (win) for the Pro-Life cause.
The Rule.
The choice should not be about ending the life of another human being (your own baby, your offspring). The choice should be to abstain from sex until you are ready to be pregnant, even if you are going to put it up for adoption, you still must be ready for pregnancy. A life is life from fertilization (when the sperm enters the nucleus of the egg) to natural death.
I wrote this in December at my first Pro-Life training. Beginning another week of training sounds daunting and exhausting, but I am fully prepared to begin this week and become more prepared and inspired to fight for those who cannot fight for themselves, to fight for the right to life.
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