An interesting quiz...
How would you respond in these situations?
1. A preacher and his wife are very, very poor. They already have 14 kids. Now she finds out she's pregnant with the 15th. They're living in tremendous poverty. Considering their poverty and the excessive world population, would you consider recommending she get an abortion?
2. The father is sick with the sniffles, the mother has TB. Of their four children, the first is blind, the second has died, the third is deaf, the fourth has TB. She finds she's pregnant again. Given this extreme situation, would you consider recommending abortion?
3. A white man raped a 13-year-old black girl and now she's pregnant. If you were her parents, would you consider recommending abortion?
4. A teenage girl is pregnant. She's not married. Her fiance is not the father of the baby, and her fiance is upset. Would you recommend abortion?
In the first case you would have killed John Wesley, one of the great evangelists in the 19th century.
In the second case, you would have killed Beethoven.
In the third case, you would have killed Ethel Waters, the great black gospel singer.
In the fourth case, you would have declared the murder of Jesus Christ.
I find the pro-choice argument: "You can't use potentiality as a reason to ban abortions, since they could be good or bad, and aren't even people yet." to be quite a joke.
I was going to be aborted, if my father would have had his way. It was the choice of my mother to have me, whether she lost her marriage or not. She had me, and in fact lost the marriage.
But you know what, had she had the abortion, it's ME who wouldn't be here. Me, a human being with thoughts, dreams, fears, hopes, a job, a wife, and a life.
Not a "fetus",... an "it"...or a "choice".
A person.
Every abortion, whether you define it as murder, killing, or the prevention of life, takes away a human being who would have lived among us, just as surely as if I took handgun and shot you in the head.
Think about that the next time you think about the "right to choose."