Why Abortion Should Be Illegal
Like with most books and movies, I am very late to the hype of them all. I recently watched Unplanned, Abby Johnson Story. The film centers around a now pro-life advocate, Abby Johnson, and her eight years working as a senior director at a Planned Parenthood facility in Houston, Texas. Due to graphic imagery, heavy material, and bloody scenes, this film is rated R, and viewers should watch at their own discretion.
I went into the movie knowing this. I’m not too squirmish when it comes to graphic or bloody imagery in movies or, in real life. About ten minutes into the movie (if that), I instantly got sick to my stomach and felt like I was going to throw up. It wasn’t that graphic; it wasn’t anything worse than other stuff I’ve watched, but the intense and authentic violence shown at an up close view was sickening.
I’m Roman Catholic. The Roman Catholic church teaches about the dignity and respect of life, and that the act of abortion is deemed wrong and evil, as we are killing innocent lives. The Church’s stance does NOT change Its stance in any way, as in every result would still be killing an innocent and precious life. (Psalm 139:14)
Since Roe V Wade in 1973, there have been over 50 million Abortions, which means that’s an average of 3,400 abortions being performed daily.
50 million lives killed.
50 million lives murdered.
50 million lives bodies botched.
50 million babies who have been torn, pulled, vacuumed, and dismembered out of their mother’s uterus. A place that should provide safety and love for them is now a battlefield.
Abortions not only kill babies but can also harm the mother, leaving them with physical ailments and irreversible damage and causing psychological trauma. Annually, 68,000 women die from abortions, making it one of the major contributors to maternal deaths.
It’s both disturbing and hypocritical that the same people who are voting for pro-choice laws, protesting that babies are just a clump of cells, and eagerly celebrating someone killing their baby and being “free” are the same people who will throw extravagant baby showers for their friends, call themselves “auntie”, and love these babies so much if and only IF someone decides to keep their baby.
A baby isn’t a baby in certain circumstances. A baby is a human being in all circumstances; it doesn’t matter how the baby was conceived, whether you want the baby or not, and at what stage the baby is - life is life. Respect it.