Why I'm Pro-Life

I am just getting into this pro-life activism. I am really rather new to it, so I thought that I would tell my story of why I did not support it before, and why I have decided to get involved.

I have always known that abortion was killing a baby. I just always believed that it should be an option for those who had no other way. You see, I had a friend who was constantly abused by her father. However, he always told the courts and the police that it was my friend and her mom that were the ones who were crazy and abusive, and they believed him, even though the evidence showed otherwise. He told by my friend that if she was raped it would be her fault, and if she got pregnant he would kill her. For my friend’s sake, and for the sake of all girls who were told the same thing, I decided that abortion should be okay for them.

I took a class in college that was entitled, “Women in American History”. In this class, we were taught that Margaret Sanger was someone to look up to, that she helped women. It is said that she helped the doctor she worked for with a patient, Sadie Sachs, who committed an abortion on herself because she was so weak that her body could not handle pregnancies anymore. The doctor supposedly told her that he would help her that once, but abortion was illegal and against God, and he could not help her the next time. He told her flat out to stop sleeping with her husband. Well, Sadie became pregnant again, and, again, self-aborted. She bled out, and the doctor would do nothing to help. What we were not told in that class was that this was in the south, Sanger was a white supremacist, and Sadie was a black woman. It never even occurred to me that Sanger could have helped Sadie, herself. I think the devil made me forget that nurses know just as much as, and sometimes more than, doctors, and are quite capable of helping patients themselves. I should know, as both of my grandmothers were nurses, and my aunt is a rather famous professor at the Boston College of Nursing.

I was brought up as a feminist. I am Irish, and in Ireland, the women are in charge of the clans. The women are the town elders, not the men. Because the women were the ones who stayed home and took care of the kids and the house while the men went out to work all day, the women were the ones to make the rules. So when I see issues where women are being abused or taken advantage of, I am quick to take offense.

Because of all of the above, I was indoctrinated into the belief that it was best for abortion to stay legal in order for women to get proper care that they needed, and for women to not endure abuse. Little did I know that the abuse was abortion itself. I always knew that abortion was wrong, that it was murder of a child, and that the practice was abused by those who use it as a form of contraception. However, I wanted women to be safe, to not have to go through a pregnancy that would kill them, and to not be abused when people found out that they were pregnant. I believed that, for those reasons, it should be legal. I did believe that it should have been outlawed in all other cases, but I could not see that happening, as all women would have to do is tell doctors that they couldn’t handle a pregnancy at that time, or that they were being abused by someone, in order to get an abortion.

Thanks to my friends of the band The Thirsting, however, I was recently made aware of how wrong I was. They wrote a song called Christ Have Mercy, which told a completely different story of the history of abortion than what I was taught. I listened to it, and I thought, “That can’t be right. I was taught by a college professor with a doctorate in history, and this is not what she taught us.” So I looked it up. My friends were right. Professor Dudik, and the textbook, were wrong.

One thing you have to know is that I had an aunt named Cecilia who died when I was 15. She died on New Years Day 2000 because of cirrhosis of the liver due to alcoholism. I have always missed her dearly. She would have been 51 yesterday.

When I was doing research, I came across an illness called Post Abortion Syndrome, also known as Post Abortion Stress Syndrome. It is a mental illness which is similar to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder for those whose disorder has to do with abortion. They have nightmares, wake up in a sweat hearing their baby cry, are very temperamental, lash out at people easily, and cannot be around children, especially children their aborted children’s age. It hurts them very deeply, and takes over their lives.

I had been told that Aunt Cecilia had an abortion, and that her husband forced her into it. However, I never thought that was anything that would have affected her. People always say that it’s a painless procedure with no lasting side effects. Well, as I was researching PASS, I heard someone tell me that’s why she died. That’s why she was an alcoholic. This happened a couple weeks after the tenth anniversary of her death. It explains so much. There was a sadness in her, even though she was so loving, so kind. I always thought it was because of things she was going through because she was abused by her ex-husband, and that the memories of that never really went away. However, the hurtful memories were of an abortion. Moreover, I am about the same age as the child she would have had. So of course I saw the sadness. I would have reminded her of her child. I know she loved me, but now I see it more clearly.

So now I fight this fight in Aunt Cecilia’s honor. Since she is not here to do it herself, and no one else in the family seems to be fighting, I have to be the one who does. Someone has to stand up for her and all women like her, and say that this is not right. Women are hurt by abortion. Women regret abortion. Women deserve better than abortion.

Thank you, Daniel and Matt, for writing that song. It opened my eyes up to a lot.

Thank you, God, for having the guys write that song, and for opening my eyes to these atrocities.

Congress Members Do Not Know the Constitution: Mandated Health Care is Not Their Business

I'm really upset about this video and article about Congress and mandated health care: A Message from Congress: No One Questions Our Authority

This is just ridiculous. I am not even a lawyer and I know that the Constitution does not provide for Congress to demand that people purchase health care. My rebuttal to their answers:

Medicaid is not mandated, so using that as an argument does not cut it.

The Commerce Clause does not demand any purchase of anything, including health care.

The fact that the Constitution says to provide for the health and welfare of the American people does not demand that people purchase health care, only that Congress is to provide for the health and welfare of the American people. Not only that, but mandated health care would mean that there would be more bureaucracy in health care, and people would not get the care they needed right away, so either way it does not provide for the health and welfare of the American people, it would only make it harder to get the care we need.

The Constitution says that what is not stated in the Constitution shall be up to the individual states. Therefore, mandated health care is not their business.

Also, are not members of Congress supposed to know the Constitution before they go into office? Do they not swear to uphold the Constitution? It surprises me that so many people in Congress say that they do not know the Constitution. I do not even study law, and I know what the Constitution does and does not provide for! The fact that they do not know is just outrageous!

Ugh. I will never understand why bureaucrats are so stupid.