As I sit here working, I cannot help but take a break to post to my blog. I had a very interesting conversation today with a former colleague of mine, and it left me thoroughly disgusted.

I am one of the first people who preach about a woman’s choice. I think abortion is an incredibly personal thing and the motivation for each woman having an abortion is specific to the woman’s needs.

I believe abortion should be regulated though. Abortion is becoming a form of birth control. This is incredibly dangerous to the mother. It is too high risk to be done repeatedly. It should not be allowed as birth control.

I personally believe if a woman is having abortion after abortion because she is poor and keeps getting herself into unfavorable situations, then for the betterment of society she should have to have her tubes tied or burned or whatever they do so the chance of her getting pregnant is slim to none.

I say this because the people who abuse abortion typically already have a few children, are excessively below the poverty level, or are single parent households with a new daddy for every baby. It happens in all races and to people of all colors of the rainbow so I am not implying that. However, some abortions are needed, which gets me back to the conversation I had and my thoughts on abortion.

Abortion should not be completely outlawed. This is not just because my religion has the belief that life begins with the exit of the child from the womb/the first breath the baby takes. There are some circumstances where abortion must be legal.

In cases of incest (especially involving rape and young girls) abortion is one of the ways these young girls can survive. In cases where the mother will die if she does not have an abortion, I believe the mother deserves the right to choose her life or the life of her unborn child.

If the mother has other children, is a single parent, or has other family obligations that make things worse if the abortion does not occur (i.e. caring for an elderly parent as well as children who would all be left high and dry) then the woman has more than one person to think about.

What it all comes down to is that it is her body and her choice. In cases of rape, I feel a woman deserves the right to choose. In cases of a stillborn baby or dead fetus, an abortion is necessary so the woman does not become sick from carrying the dead fetus.

I even agree it is a woman’s choice if she is young and it is a one-time thing. I know many who have made the hard decision and how could I object when I have seen their pain and how hard a decision it was?

So, back to my conversation…with this colleague of mine. This woman is not very well off and has a baby nearly two years old. She had a late term abortion. In fact, it was so late term she needed special permission to have it done. At first, she told me it was a medical reason and I thought it was done when she was not very far a long, so I was very sympathetic and sorry for her loss. However, then she described how she gave birth to the baby…and then it was killed.

This is NOT abortion. This is MURDER.

She claims the baby had a rare defect and the doctors said the baby probably would not live. Well the doctors said I would be dead by now, too and here I am way past my death sentence. Doctors make mistakes. She didn’t even give her child a chance at life and her baby was already out and in the world when it was killed. It wasn’t vacu-sucked out. It was delivered by C-section just as millions of other babies are. It was actually given the chance to breathe right before it died.

I get the feeling that it was easier on her to just accept the abortion then to have to deal with the monetary needs of a special needs child. It didn’t appear as if she cared about the baby suffering, just about the fact that SHE had suffered.

I cannot in good conscience support this. I cannot say it is a woman’s choice, and I keep telling myself it is not my place to say a word, that the Gods will deal with such an action. I do not believe in sin, since my religion has no sin. There is only personal responsibility and lack of personal responsibility is displeasing to the Gods.

Can I assume my Gods are displeased by such actions? How could they not be? The whole purpose of Hellenismos is the celebration of life and finding ways to honor the Gods through life. This child’s life was taken…so why should the Gods not be displeased? However, I am finding it hard to just say let bygones be bygones and let the Gods handle it…because it makes ME very mad that this child did not even have the chance to live her life.

Now, this person is a devout Christian. She has stated on more than one occasion she is against abortion and yet she did it. I feel like she believes her actions were justified because the baby had a defect. I feel like she believes she is better then those she said she knows who “abuse abortion” and “use it as birth control”.

I feel like she is no better then them or perhaps is even worse then they are. They aren’t hiding behind pretenses. At least they are honest in their intentions while she remains high and mighty.

What’s more…when did we become a society where a defect meant we replace? I know it works for objects. If we have a defective keyboard, we take it back to a store and get a new one. Is that what pregnancy is yet to become? A way to take each defective child back to the store in hopes of finding a new, better replacement, or is this just the latest trend for those who claim they are better then abortion who end up being murderers instead?

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