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You know… I am a Christian Male “conservative” – so… I am supposed to be against abortion, right? Well… that’s true. I am definitely against abortion. But, not so much because of any of those things…
We got to see the ultrasonic images of our baby this past week. (ISN’T SHE CUUUUUUUUTE!?!??!?) 🙂 And as I watched that baby move around in there – it was just so fun! – I thought… wow. This is so amazing. This new life did not exist just a few months ago. Now it’s pretty much like you and me. The medical ladies said that the baby can evacuate it’s bladder (cool medical terms, eh?) and “breathes” (uses it’s lungs) and even yawns, and I saw it suck on its hand… just amazing. No one can see that and think that this is not a baby!!!
And then later, Ian made some comment about wanting a baby sister… and that we’d have to “try” for a baby sister (an interesting comment coming from a 4-yr-old…) 🙂 In response to that I said something like, “we don’t have to try, you’ve got one right here! Nothing we can do about it now!!!”
And you know, as I said those words, my heart sank. And I wonder if the same happened to the two ladies in the room with us who live and work in the medical field. I was not trying to voice my “anti-abortion” sentiment (that was for you anti-lifers out there — why is it that people who want to save babies get the “anti” tag and people who like abortion get the “pro” tag?) … I was meerly stating the obvious fact that we DEFINITELY already HAVE a baby!!!
There was an article in Readers Digest this month (not usually very deep reading – it is most often found in bathrooms…) asking the question again, “When does life begin?” They were saying that now with modern science and medicine we can actually preserve babies who are born prematurely much earlier than we could before. Even before that magic abortion cut-off of 26 weeks. (Apparently abortion is illegal after 26 weeks in most states) Just raising the question of when abortion is ethical and ok… In addition to that, they mentioned the Scott Peterson deal where he is being tried for the murder of his pregnant wife AND their unborn son. (NOT a fetus, as abortion legislation and proponents would suggest…)
There has been so much heated debate over this issue… but I truly (from my least conservative white male christian perspective) can not see why? Really. Go see an ultrasound. Watch the baby move and act and re-act in the womb. Understand that as early as 8 weeks I think that baby is doing most of the stuff it will do outside of the womb. It’s a baby.
Infanticide has been practiced in many cultures for various reasons throughout history. And, approx 30 yrs ago we decided to try it in ours, but we have made it pretty neat and tidy by calling it pro-choice. How sad.
God, forgive us for our continuous progression away from you. Please continue to wake us up and turn us around and give us another chance to walk with You again. Please wake your church up and use us as your hand and feet and your voice in this country that was founded by people who love you. Use me, God. And this growing and awesome family you have given me.
For more of the photos from the ultra-sonic photo shoot, click here.