Pro-life and proud of it!
For the majority of my life, I considered myself to be pro-choice. I thought that if a girl is in a bad situation then yes, she should be able to have an abortion.
But during my senior year I had a friend who was in that situation, and I didn't want her to have an abortion. I wanted her to maybe put the baby up for adoption because I know people who are unable to have kids of their own and I know that there are a lot more people who can't. During this period I realized that I was Pro-Life.
I think it's funny because I started liking pro-life groups on facebook and I know that before this I liked pro-choice groups. So if a person were to search through the groups I like, they'd see both. I also had said it somewhere on my profile.
A little while ago I received a message on FB (kicking myself for deleting it) from a guy who had obviously seen that I was pro-life. What he said was very stupid, acting surprised that a girl was pro-life and something about how I like to control other people's lives, etc. Basically assuming things about me and pro-lifers that aren't true.
I replied that yes, thanks for noticing that I'm a girl. And that I do not like controlling people, and it's very rude to assume that that's the meaning of pro-life. I believe that everyone does deserve the right to live.
I gave him a very detailed but not very long message about how he's wrong about me and my beliefs and how we're not even friends on FB or have any mutual friends, so he must not have a life if he took the time to find someone to argue with.
But I feel I might have to explain further my beliefs because I know people who are pro-choice thinks that pro-lifers are ignorant and mean and stuff.
Like my boyfriend's sister said when I asked her why she decided to have her son while she was still in high school, "I thought I was old enough to have unprotected sex so I thought I had to be grown up enough to deal with it." I have a lot of points in why I'm pro-life but one is that if you aren't smart enough to take the necessary precautions then you will have to deal with the consequences.
Some will say that some people don't have enough money to take care of a baby so they HAVE to abort the baby. But it seems that pro-choice people seem to forget that there are more choices than to either keep the baby or abort. There's adoption. Like I already said, there are a lot of people who are unable to have kids of their own and it is selfish for the rest of us to abuse the fact that we can get pregnant but choose to kill the living thing inside. I know that if I ever got pregnant, if I had to, I would put it up for adoption, because even though I would want to keep my baby, I'd have to deal with the consequences of my decision and know that I'm giving someone a family and that my baby will grow up to be an amazing, loved person.
And yes, I do consider the bunches of cells a human. And it IS living. In biology class you learn that the cells in our body are living, so just because THESE cells you don't want, doesn't make them any less alive. And they are human cells, check the DNA and you will be able to tell the sex and the species easily. It isn't dog cells, chicken cells, or giraffe cells, it is a human being living inside of you wanting a chance to live too. It is evolution that all living things do want to live. Deal with it.
And yes, if I were raped and got pregnant, I'd keep the baby. Some people say that you shouldn't punish the girl by making her go through the pregnancy but why look at it so negatively? Why not look at it as a chance to undo the wrong that was done to the girl? Even if she did give it up for adoption, the baby would be a chance to make up for the fact that it's biological father was a criminal.
People need to be more optimistic. Pro-choicers usually argue with such negative examples. If a girl is in a bad situation, she doesn't need people who are negative, she needs positive support. I expect it from my friends if I do end up in a bad situation and every girl should have it. Having an abortion can have a negative effect mentally and emotionally on a girl, and why would someone want more negative emotions.
I don't judge people on what they've done or their decisions because it's not my place to judge. But I won't support someone having an abortion. I'll support her after with the emotional damage but not with her decision. I love all my friends to death but they can't expect me to go against my beliefs to support theirs.
