I am going to attempt to make this post as unbiased as possible. However I am incredibly and utterly completely against abortion in any way shape or form.
This may be "gross" to some but, unfortunately this is something you need to see. This is a 22 week abortion. Which is illegal but, still possible. I stand corrected. It is not illegal to get an abortion and any age of the fetus. So, yes technically you could have your baby aborted while in labor.
http://abortiontv.com/images/jh9.jpg (I removed the actual image because its very sad and no one should -have to- see it.)
That was the only picture I found that did not turn my stomach. It makes me very sad.
Here are some effects of abortion:
Effects on Future Pregnancies
If you have an abortion:
(1) You will be more likely to bleed in the first three months of future pregnancies.
(2) You will be less likely to have a normal delivery in future pregnancies.
(3) You will need more manual removal of placenta more often and there will be more complications with expelling the baby and its placenta.
(4) Your next baby will be twice as likely to die in the first few months of life.
(5) Your next baby will be three to four times as likely to die in the last months of his first year of life.
(6) Your next baby may have a low birth weight.
(7) Your next baby is more likely to be born prematurely with all the dangerous and costly problems that entails.
Those are only the ones regarding future pregnancies.
If you are thinking about abortion. Please check out these links.
I'm sorry I am not covering on abortion that much. It's just a VERY controversial topic with me and its just better if I don't keep going. :) I think once people have a baby... They will totally understand.
Adoption:
So, most people get an abortion because?
- "They don't want to bring a baby into the world that it would suffer in."(IE: lack of money, disease, or violence.
- We can't handle having a baby right now.
- Our parents would be angry or disappointed; we might get kicked out of the house.
- Having a baby might screw up finishing high school, going to college, or having a career.
- The father is not going to help.
- We don't have the money to take care of a baby.
- Having a baby isn't healthy for us or the baby.
- We may have gotten pregnant by rape or incest.
Here is where I might go a little over the line. But, I really want to voice this.
IF YOU ARE "MATURE ENOUGH" TO GO OFF AND HAVE SEX THEN YOU NEED TO STEP UP AND BE A "MATURE" ADULT AND FACE THE FACTS.
Thats all I really need to say for that.
I can't tell you how many times I have seen kids when I was in highschool talking about how their going to "abort that little s**t"(talking about the baby inside them). I think that is total bull.
Anyways, here are some good links on adoption:
http://costs.adoption.com/
http://adoptionnetwork.com/adoption-texas/texas.shtml?gcid=S13083x703&gclid=CMvMso6TgJECFQdEFQodolFOGA
I hope that I will not get any discrimination from this post. I am sorry if I offended you. This is merely my opinion. If you don't mind leaving yours as a comment. I'd be very glad to see different perspectives.
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I just wanted to add to your links for anyone out there who may be considering an abortion: www.abort73.com
I, like you, am completely against abortion in any way, any form, any time. If I get started I will just go off, so I will just ask your readers to check out the link.
Andy, I commend you for your courage to post this information and your feelings about it.
Unfortunately, some people just have no value for human life. Three of my children were abandoned by their mother. The oldest was 5, the next 3, and the youngest was 1 year old. She knows where we live, knows the phone number, but doesn't call and never sees her kids. She came from a good family. Her parents are devestated by what she has done. They feel responsible in some way.
My mother wanted to abort me when she was pregnant, but in the early 60's, you just didn't do that. Now I am raising five happy, healthy children. I do work that inspires, encourages, and empowers others. I help people heal.
We never know what special gift a child is going to bring to the world, but I believe that every child does have something special to share with us.
Thanks for your courage, Andy.
Jstone
I'm not pro abortion, but pro choice - there's a difference. I've never had one, I never would or could. I've given birth to 4 healthy children and been through 5 miscarriages, so I do have clue. I absolutely agree with you, that once you've had a child, you KNOW.
Young people need to be informed about much more than the yes/no issue. They need to know what psychological problems may ensue from an abortion - but ALSO from an adoption. They need to know WHAT IT IS they are "taking away", that it's not just a lump of cells.
They also need to know their options if they choose to keep the child. Most of all, it's not enough to be against abortion - politicians have to be willing to offer financial and other support too, so that these girls/young families can survive.
Still, I'm afraid that a ban would have tragic consequences, and that is why I cannot be for a total ban.
Realistically, we'll be back in the "middle ages", with illegal procedures on kitchen tables, foetuses being removed with knitting needles and clothes hangers... girls and women barren at best, and thousands dead from infections and haemorrageing.
I'm sorry to be so blunt, but this was the reality for thousands of pregnant girls at one time, and could easily become so again.
For young pregnant women to welcome their children, society must welcome them too. There's a long way to go...
Good luck with your baby and your life - you've done well!
Murders do get uglier when they are illegal. Imagine if all murder was legal. People would probably do it in a nice sterile environment with magazine racks and free coffee if it were legal -- sure the victim would be kicking and screaming all the way (as unborn babies do but cannot be heard.) But since it's illegal to murder, it happens in alley ways and behind closed doors with knives and guns and blunt objects, rather than sterile lethal injections administered by a third party. Do we legalize murder because it would be cleaner and ummm... "safer"?
There is no difference. Period.
Clearly when a mother is going to die, there is a momentary choice to be made. That choice is never ever made in a back alley or even in an abortion clinic. It usually happens in an ER and is a decision wrought with pain and sadness. Instances such as that will likely never be illegal (nor should they be). But that type of scenario accounts for a very very small portion of abortions performed today.
In some places (such as the country I live in) people wait months, even years for important life saving surgeries paid for by the government. Abortion, however, being time sensitive in that if it is put on hold too long the "disease" will coo and cry and drink milk and be loved by someone, is paid for by our taxes and is done in a very timely fashion, for any reason, in the hospital. And that is where legalized abortion (coupled with another ultimate bad -- universal healthcare) eventually leads. My money, paying for the brutal murder of babies, some old enough to survive outside the womb.
Andy, I am proud of your decision to keep your precious baby. May you grow as a parent and as a man.
I think your post is great, and I completely agree.
Also, just wanted to say congrats on winning Blog of the Month at Blogmommas!
I am so excited to read your blog because I was a young mother too at 16 years old, and my husband (boyfriend at the times) was young too. I can just totally relate to your posts, a lot of what you say it what I felt when I was your age with a little baby in my arms.
God Bless YOU, and your precious family!
God Bless,
Heather Bixler :)
I disagree.
I would urge you to do further research on the topic of adoption. I'm adopted, and I hate it. People say that I'm ungrateful to my parents, that I'm ungrateful to my birthmother, that at least I was wanted by somebody--they tell me lots of things. Still, the fact remains, that adoption is a multi-billion dollar business run predominantly by people who have little or no interest in doing what is best for the child.
Even UNICEF agrees that the psychological impact that adoption has on a child is significant enough that adoption should be used only as the very last resort.
Lots of people think that 'your parents are your parents and it doesn't matter who raises you' and they couldn't be more wrong. Infants know who their mother is and they know when they're separated from her and it causes real trauma that is rarely gotten over. Adoptees have serious trust and relationship issues, generally don't 'attach' to their parents, and have a phenomenally high suicide rate.
You're probably going to ask me now if, even though I hate being adopted, would I rather have been aborted. Honestly? YES.
I don't write in this blog anymore, but it still exists if you care to take a look:
infiniteprovocative.blogspot.com
still born.. I do not know if you will get this but...
I was adopted too, I got A.D.D because of it and got through my life because God got me through it. Without God I would of wanted to die, I almost did commit suicide.
God has a purpose for every human being before they are even formed in the womb. It is up to the human being to open up their hearts and minds to that and follow Him.
No human being has the right to take anothers life for their own selfish reasons (mostly being teens having sex, and not wanting to deal with a baby, "so much for teaching abstinence") or for any reason at all... only God has the right to decide if a baby lives or not.
I used to be like you when I was younger, I hated being adopted, i had wished i was aborted. Now that I found Jesus Christ, I will never be the same. I love my Lord Jesus Christ, I love my life... and I am GLAD I am adopted and hope that my life is used as a living example for people like you and an encouragement.
A LIFE WITHOUT CHRIST, IS A LIFE THAT IS NEVER FIXED.
(taken from rapper KJ-52 Song: Dear Slim part 2)
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