The Government Wasn't Carrying My Baby

So why should it be up to them whether or not I keep it?

One person, and one person alone carries a single infant at any given time. It cannot be traded off, you cannot "take turns," once it is in your body, it is there to stay. However, you do have an option: Abortion.

Abortion has been made into an evil word. A word that is comparable to murder and it is very easy to link the two, if it is not you in the situation. It is the easiest thing for a male president to say that abortion should be illegal. It is just as easy for a woman who has not been raped to say it. There is never any way to know if it is right or if it is wrong, but think about this.

A fifteen year old girl is raped by her mother's boyfriend. A few weeks later she notices that her period is late. She is soon throwing up every morning. Her older sister, who has also been raped by this man brings her to Planned Parenthood for a pregnancy test, and her worst fear is brought to life: She is pregnant. She has three choices. She can keep the baby and someday be forced to explain to it why it doesn't have a father, she can carry it full term and then part with it as she hands it over for adoption never to see it again, or, she can abort the fetus. She chooses to abort the fetus, knowing that she was a product of rape and knowing how that makes her feel and seeing the resent toward her in her mother's eyes.

You may be saying to yourself that this is just one situation, there are thousands of others. And there are thousands of reasons as to why no one can tell anyone what to do with their lives. Mr. President, if you would like to make abortion illegal, then you can take my unborn fetus and you can carry it to term.

I have been pro-life since I was a child. Because I looked at abortion solely as murder. I looked at it that way until I was raped. I was handed Plan B at the hospital and as far as I was concerned it was murder. If God wanted me to have a baby, than so be it. But as I sat there getting shot after shot and pill after pill to protect me from diseases that may have been contracted I started thinking. I am only 18 years old. I am in my first year of college. I am not married, I am not financially stable... I cannot have a baby. And then I though well, if I am pregnant, I can give it up for adoption. But how could I spend nine months with a baby just to hand her over? Right now, if there is a chance, the smallest chance, that baby will never know. I would rather spare it from a life of possible turmoil than bring a child into this world with an uncertain future. I began to look at abortion differently.

When people hear my views, before they hear my story, they look down on me. And when they do hear my story they tell me that rape is different. Well, it's really not. Because making abortion illegal is making it all illegal. It is forcing a woman who's life has already been drastically altered for the worst to have to live with the product of that pain. I can look back and feel good about what I did. I stopped a potential disaster. I prevented more than one life from being ruined. I am the only one that had to suffer a loss knowing that I may have just stopped a life from being formed. I saved a child from living life never really knowing.

Abortion is a choice, and will remain a choice until if a woman decides that she cannot carry a baby, instead of aborting the child can be taken and put into someone else, somehow, and in all cases. In America we have complete control over who we are and what we do with our lives. Had I had a child, where would I be right now? I would be a single mother living with my parents struggling to survive. But now I am a second year college student working toward a degree in Sociology and Social Work. There are more than two sides to every argument.
There is no, it is right or it is wrong.
I will agree that legalized abortion could be a problem because some women may take advantage of it. They may think that it is okay to have unprotected sex because they can take care of their mistakes.

But what if it was not their mistake?