I don't think I'll ever understand.


And maybe that makes me naive, but it's fact. I just don't get it. How does anyone, as a mother, decide that their child shouldn't live? I mean, at what point are you able to make that decision? How do you decide to give up hope on a child that may have birth defects? By saying that a child has a defect and should be "terminated" is no different than the systematic killing of baby girls in countries like India and China. These children aren't killed for any other reason except that they aren't worth enough. They have no "social value". They aren't worth feeding and raising. It's easier just to kill their own children.


You know that feeling when something unexpectedly bad has just happened? Like, you hear a gunshot, or a child screaming? And it takes your breath away just a little, and makes your heart pound? That's how I feel when a girl follows "I'm pregnant" with "I don't know yet if I'm going to keep it." That is your child! That is your son, your daughter! That baby is not an "it"! And he or she is not a clump of cells or a "potential life".


Life begins at conception.

I'm sorry you don't count, I'm sorry you don't qualify as human.

I'm sorry I can't stop them from killing you.

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