Would you rather make a choice, or have one made for you? Pro-Choice advocates have given you the right to choose the fate of the tiny life you carry. No one else can determine the future of your pregnancy; you hold the power to end the budding life of your baby or to nurture its beginning.
The key to making this choice, like many of life’s choices, is to make the one you’ll least regret. Regret often comes with knowledge or realization of something that a person didn’t have or wasn’t willing to see before the choice was made. While abortion advocates would argue that the life inside you isn’t really a baby, person, or life until he or she is born, the lives of many born despite abortion attempts tell a different story.
One poignant tale has been told repeatedly during federal debates in Congress regarding the Born Alive Infants Protection Act and Partial Birth Abortion Ban. Nurse Jill Stanek’s testimony about her experience at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois, demonstrates the true vendetta of many abortionists, which does not end with birth. Stanek’s story starts with a couple who desired to have their Down’s Syndrome baby aborted, at 20 to 21 weeks gestation. Born alive, his parents refused to hold him, as did the nurse on duty. This unwanted child was placed in a closet to live out the remaining moments of his life, alone. Stanek couldn’t let that happen, though. She rocked him for the remaining 45 minutes of life. Had this baby’s parents chosen differently, they could have done what Stanek could not do: Saved a baby’s life.
Not all failed abortions end as quickly as did the one Stanek held, though. A child named Sarah was rejected by her biological parents after giving birth to her only days after their abortion attempt. Despite the many disabilities resulting from the failed attempt, Sarah’s adoptive parents cared for her until she died at the age of five. She weighed 25 pounds and was the size of an average two year old. In her short life, her story helped convince many abortion-prone parents to save their children’s lives, and that legacy continues through the ministry of her adoptive parents, who live in Wichita, Kansas.
There are even adult abortion survivors out there, such as Gianna Jessen, who speaks out regarding both forgiveness and innocent children’s rights. Despite Cerebral Palsy resulting from the procedure” intended to end her life before it had a chance to begin, Jessen now runs marathons. And regardless of the fact that her parents, who were teenagers when they tried to abort her and then gave her up for adoption, do not see what they did as wrong, she has forgiven them.
While many other abortion survivors have stories to tell, many have not survived. As a parent, you do have a right to choose, and giving your child a chance at life will not be a choice worth regretting.
Womens Center in Sidney, Ohio
The Women’s Center-Sidney is a pregnancy resource center in Ohio that serves women of Shelby, Auglaize, Miami and surrounding counties in the state of Ohio. The center provides free pregnancy tests, limited ultrasound scans, prenatal vitamins, consulting on pregnancy decisions and an educational and material assistance program.
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