Abort the Pro-Choice Mission Choose Life!
This series of posts is designed to take a true look at the factors around the abortion movement and what it truly means to empower women and to empower them for free choice.
Abort the Pro-Choice Mission Choose Life!
This series of posts is designed to take a true look at the factors around the abortion movement and what it truly means to empower women and to empower them for free choice.
When I first started this study, I saw the pro-choice movement as something that wanted to portray power in the freedom to choose, that women felt power over their lives when terminating their child. This astonishingly is not the case with more than half of abortions (78%) involving women who were pressured into killing their babies, as noted in part 2 of this series. Even though it is illegal to coerce someone to have an abortion, that is exactly what is happening hundreds of times a day.
According to Life Line Pregnancy Help Clinic the pressure that pregnant women feel to get an abortion may be direct, indirect or situational. Pressure from others may even become violent and homicide is actually the leading cause of death in pregnant women. Pressures may not always be direct demands for a woman to kill her baby; pressure often comes in the form of negative statements that create fear in the Mother and other forms of lack of support. Women even face pressures of losing housing at colleges, money and housing from parents and punishment from spouses as well as direct or indirect pressures from work, doctors, abortion clinics, school and community members as well as church members and leadership. Women are powerful and they do deserve to have a choice. Almost 8 out of 10 women did not feel empowered to make their own choice, they were pressured by our society, unprotected by our laws and fearful of whatever their family and current situation was or would become; they were not heard or informed enough to stand up for what they wanted. Another report by Heartbeat International (HB int.) noted that 8 out of 10 women also claimed they were not informed of all available resources before their abortion.
There needs to be an end to unwanted pregnancy and unwanted abortion, the mental health epidemic in women who have abortions is outrageous. HB Int. also notes that 65% of women suffer trauma symptoms after an abortion and women who have had an abortion are 6 times more likely to commit suicide. A woman should have the right to choose life without facing any pressure from others. Further, they conclude that over 65% receive no counseling prior to their abortion, over 50% are admittedly unsure of their abortion and 65% of women have clinical depression after their abortion. This violence against women and their babies needs to stop.
An unborn child is a human life, abortion is killing that human life; it is important to remember God commands that thou shall not kill; God’s plan is not that a mother terminate her pregnancy. Life is always a gift, life is good; “Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward” (Psalms 123:7). Women know how wonderful their children are, women are strong and powerful and will do anything to protect their children and that should not be any different for their unborn children. Women need to start standing tall and rejecting fear and pressure. There are resources for pregnant women out there but the most powerful resource that a woman and family can rely on is God, He is a provider and He does not want you to put the fear of tomorrow over love and life.“So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.” (Matthew 6:34). Women and families need to recall that all things belong to God and are from God, women need to be congratulated and encouraged about their news of pregnancy for it is a miracle and a gift from God. The news of a new baby is a time to rejoice, not a time to let the devil cause fear to steal your joy, or situations to destroy your hope or for lack of faith to lead to the killing of an unborn child; “But my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19).
In addition to stopping abortion by coercion there needs to be activism and support for new parents as well assistance to help women to prevent unwanted pregnancy. Every woman should and does have a choice of when or if they start a family; this choice starts when the woman or young lady decides to be sexually active. The bible calls men and women to wait to have sex until marriage; “Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.” (Matthew 7:6). It is no wonder that God, our Father does not want us to have multiple partners or engage in sex before marriage, studies and statistics show that such behavior leads to increased risk of STD, depression, unwanted pregnancy and suicide. Base on a National Survey of Family Growth people that wait to have sex are not only less likely to get an STD, have an abortion or baby out of wedlock but they are also more likely to have successful marriages and not fall into poverty. The same study concludes that women who wait until marriage or until they are older and ultimately have less partners were surveyed as happier while women who have sex at an earlier age and have more partners were surveyed as having more depression. 
It is clear that our Daddy in heaven calls us to live conservatively and wait to have sex until marriage in order to protect us from the negative consequences of sin. We have already discussed the horrible mental and emotional consequences that most women face after having an abortion. Let us also now take time to enjoy the idea of choosing life for ALL of the miracle babies of the world. A baby is a blessing of new life, a new generation that can be raised to prosper and break generational curses. A baby is a blessing of unconditional love to the mother and the rest of the family. Although the responsibilities and experiences with parenting are sometimes challenging, they are always part of a bigger beautiful story. Even women who decide to give their baby up for adoption can take joy in knowing that they have given the gift of life; no doubt it is a great sacrifice but it is also one done solely out of love.
Furthermore, some women and families are pressured by doctors to have an abortion because the doctors believe that their baby will not be viable, will only live a few minutes or will have a poor quality of life. Even with these medically advised abortions women face the same aftermath of trauma. Some women have decided to carry their baby to term and let their pregnancy work itself out naturally; these women’s testimony usually include more closure and peace than women who opt to terminate the pregnancy through abortion. Even worse is that some doctors are wrong about the condition of the unborn baby and the future of the pregnancy. It is horrifying that we live in a nation and a world that has more faith in men and man made technology over God and His promises. It has recently been discovered that doctors can even only predict a mothers due date within a week with less than 5% accuracy; but we will let them make life and death decisions over our babies. New studies are even finding that variations in the mother’s DNA can cause false positives for birth defects that doctors test for in the fetus. Women and families have carried their babies to term after being told by medical doctors to abort, only to find that they have healthy babies. Faith has got to outweigh fear, we must understand who our creator is and that His power is above all power. “13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” (Psalms 139:13-14) It is very prideful to believe that a man created by God knows better than God when it comes to His creation. It is unfortunate that even with church leaders there is a lack of people claiming God’s love and power over these principalities of sickness and fear; our God is an awesome God and He is a healer. “The Lord sustains him on his sickbed; in his illness you restore him to full health.” (Psalm 41:3). We see Christ heal over and over, we know that God has given us power over all the principalities of darkness; we are God’s children and we need to remember that He hears us every time we call on Him. “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,” (Psalms 103:2-4).
It is the time for women to stand up for their choice. Women need to stand up for themselves, for their babies and for truth. Let us stop the murder and the trauma, let us stop sinning against ourselves, our children, families and God. Stop letting fear drive life and death decisions. The truth is that God is good and faithful and life is Good.
