I have heard many people who are pro-choice make the claim that Pro-life people do not really care anything about the women that we only care about the babies. Really most of them always throw in there that we only care about the fetus's because of course calling an unborn child a baby to them is a huge no, no. It's all part of the imagined war on women that pro-choicers and liberals believe wholeheartedly in and use to try to justify all their leftist beliefs. The accusations that they level that pro-life people only care for the unborn are completely false. A true Pro-life person cares just as much about the mother as they do her unborn child. We don't want to see anyone hurt and that is what abortion does it kills one and wounds the other most of the time for life both psychologically and physically as well.

Many pro-choice people might not try to take on the issue that abortions do harm the woman who has them emotionally, but they will usually are very outspoken and to say that "legal" abortions are perfectly safe medical procedures that do no lasting harm physically to the mothers. Yet countless recent research irrefutably states otherwise. Countless studies have shown over the last few years that women who have abortions are at a higher risk for death for up to 8 years after having an abortion. Research has shown that women who have abortions often suffer many complications in subsequent pregnancies including an increased risk of ectopic pregnancies, endometritis, placenta previa and PID and more. There have been many resent studies showing an increased risk for breast cancer and other types of female sometimes as much as double the normal risk after having one or more abortions. (The risks continue to rise after every abortion) The risk of future miscarriages and premature births increases sharply in some cases they more than double. And countless studies show that abortions more than triple the risk of a woman developing mental health problems which includes a high risk of suicide.

Here are two great links that list in detail the risks to a women who have abortions verse those who don't.  

 List of psychological and suicide risks - http://www.theunchoice.com/pdf/FactSheets/PsychologicalRisks.pdf

You see Pro-life people care about the mothers too. We don't want to see them suffer and possibly die themselves due to abortion or abortion causing drugs. Because the lies that Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry have spread so far and wide are just that they are lies there is NO such thing as a safe abortion. Choices have consequences so you much choose wisely. 

True Pro-life people believe that both lives are equal. Abortion is really a civil rights issue. In fact I would venture to say that it is the ultimate civil rights issue of all time because without the right to life all other rights are rendered meaningless. Even the horrible practice of slavery didn't mean an automatic death sentence for the slave. They had a chance to live even though most other freedoms were taken from them. Abortion doesn't allow any chance of freedom for the children at all. All men and women are created equal.  And as our great Declaration of Independence states "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." There is a reason why they put LIFE first! Because it is the most precious and important right there is! Without it nothing else is even relevant. 

Who has the right to say that one person's life worth more than another?

They say that we only care about the life of the child but why do they only care for the woman and nothing else? Is the mother's life some how more valuable than the child's she is carrying because she is older? Or because of where she is in her life? Or because she is already been allowed to grow enough to know where she is at and interact with the outside world around her? The answer to all the questions above is NO! Her life is equal too and just as valuable and important as her child's, but it is not more important. Each and every one of them was at one time that a "fetus" and their lives were just as valuable but no more so than the children that they say that it is all right to kill in the womb. The only difference is they had a mother who did choose life for them. Yet they would deny others that same right and try to call themselves liberators and advocates for freedom? For anyone to say that their life is somehow more valuable than anyone else's is the epitome of selfishness and narcissism. We are all the same in the sight of God our Creator.  

Now I can't speak for how every mother feels but I can speak from my own experience... when I was pregnant with my son one day into my eighth month of pregnancy I had an appointment to go see my OBG/GYN. In fact it was the visit where I was suppose to start going every two weeks for checkups from then on until I had my son. I knew that I hadn't been feeling well that day, but to be perfectly honest I was extremely sick throughout my entire pregnancy, I was pretty much miserable the entire time. I was one of the "lucky" ones that had morning, noon, and night sickness for my entire pregnancy I didn't just have morning sickness it happened every morning and sometimes all throughout the day and I just always felt wiped out and just blah. I also had other problems but I won't go into that the point I'm trying to make is that I had already felt so bad during my pregnancy that I really didn't see a huge difference in how I was feeling that day. I went to work like normal and worked right up until the time that I had to leave work and go straight to my doctor's appointment at around 2pm. I had worked the whole day with my feet propped up on my trashcan underneath my desk because my feet were swelling that day. But again this was my first pregnancy and I have heard just like every other woman that women's feet swell a lot of the time when they are pregnant and I didn't really think that much about it. I thought well it's just because I'm getting closer to my due date this is just part of it and most women go through it no biggy. I got to the Doctor's office and I went in like normal when they called me back it was the same old routine that they had done all the times before. They weighed me and a few other things then I sat down in a chair for them to take my blood pressure and this is where everything changed. The nurse looked like something was wrong like she wasn't seeing the blood pressure reading right when the cuff had fulled deflated. She said let me take that again... I did think it was a bit odd but again I didn't know anything was wrong and I just thought she might not have pumped the cuff enough or the blood pressure cuff just didn't work right or something that time. So she took my blood pressure again and this time she didn't say anything she just opened a drawer got out a red pen (she had been using another color before that while writing in my chart) and she wrote something in red in my chart and said I'll be right back. Well now I was starting to wonder what was going on but still I wasn't overly alarmed at this point still.

Before to long she came back and got me and my husband and showed us into an exam room just like they always did, and it wasn't too long until my Dr. came in. She asked how I was feeling and came and examined me just like always feeling of my stomach etc. like all the times before, but after she finished she stepped back and the next words out of her mouth turned my world completely upside down. She told me that my blood pressure was extremely high and that she was going to have to put me in the hospital and that I needed to go ahead and have my baby that night or in the morning. 

I felt like all the blood drained completely out of me. I remember saying "No it's not time yet he's too little. I'm only eight months by one day. I can't have him yet, he's not ready." My Dr. told me that I had developed Preclampsia/Toxemia and that I needed to go ahead have him then for both of our sakes. She said my blood pressure was so high that I could have stroke or go into seizures. She said did you know you are already in labor? I couldn't believe it! She told me that I was already having contractions... she said put your hand on your stomach you feel how hard it is. I was like yeah she said that’s because you are having contractions. I was floored I didn't know what to say. I felt like I was about to have a panic attack or pass out or both, and I was absolutely scared to death. She said the best thing to do was to put me in the hospital and have this baby. She told me that she didn't even want me going home to get any clothes or anything, she pointed to my husband and said he can take care of that later. She wanted me to go straight over to the hospital which was just up the driveway from where her office building was right then and that she would meet us over there. She even told my husband to get my information and for him to go admit me and they could go ahead and start me on some medicine etc. When I got there they immediately got an IV going and started giving me medicine to speed up my labor and something to keep me from going in to seizures because my blood pressure was sky high. I told them there was no chance of it coming down anytime soon because I had never been so terrified in my entire life.

  

I prayed that day probably more and more vehemently than I ever have in my life. I had monitors all over me monitoring me, taking my blood pressure every few mins. and monitors that were monitoring Stephen's heart rate. I prayed to God to help me and my son and if it was possible and according with his will at all to let us both make it through it without any problems and be healthy. But that if that wasn't possible and anyone had to die I begged God to let it be me, to please take me instead and let my son live.

The Dr. got there after they got me in a room and she told them to get an anesthesiologist in there as soon as possible, and that she wanted me to get an epidural ASAP she told them that she didn't want me feeling anything. I remember she was very adamant about that. She said her blood pressure is already so high I don’t want her feeling any pain at all it could make it go even higher. She even told me that I could watch TV in the room but to not even watch anything that could get me excited or anything like a sports game or anything. Which I was like ok.....But I will admit that the she didn't want me feeling any pain part sounded really good to me. It wasn't long before the anesthesiologist came into my room and gave me an epidural and my Dr. got her wish I felt nothing from my stomach down. I couldn't even feel my legs at all I remember pinching them and never feeling anything at all. But in the mean while I got very sick from the medicine that they were giving me to try to keep me from having seizures. It also had a side effect of making me extremely hot. The Dr. told me when she started the drip that it was going to and I quote "make me feel like crap" she said there is just no other way to put it. Man was she right I got sick to my stomach and I felt like I was burning up from the inside out. It was a realllllllly miserable afternoon and night. I didn't know what was going to happen I was so afraid that I was going to loose my son. I was even more terrified because his heart rate dropped several times during the night but it always came back up pretty quickly and my Dr. wanted me to have him naturally without a c-section if I could. Also they kept having to come and draw blood from me every few hours to check the levels of some of the medicine they were giving me because if it got to high in my blood that wasn't a good thing either.With the epidural even when I was going into hard labor later that night I didn't feel any pain at all. I could have gone to sleep accept I was too scared too. Also with them coming in all the time checking things, taking blood, and the blood pressure cuff taking my bp every 15 mins didn't help matters either. It took a long time before I finally got dilated all the way to where I could start to push the next day. My appointment at the doctor had been at about 2pm that day and I didn't actually have my son until 4 minutes until 4 the next day but the actual birth when I started to push and actually have him was one of the easiest parts of my entire pregnancy. I remember telling my husband that if my whole pregnancy had been as easy as the birth part itself everything would have been a piece of cake.

In closing the real war on women is being waged by those that devalue life and think that no person's life or well being comes before their plans or what they want. We live in a society that is very narcissistic in many ways. It's sad to say but there are many in today's world who could truly care less of what happens to others just as long as they get what they want. That is not the way that things are suppose to be. Some don't care about what is right or what is the truth, they only want what they want and they won't even try to see anything beyond that. They won't listen to any scientific studies or any articles, even by those in the top of their fields in embryology and biology that say that life begins at conception. They can't be bothered to even try listen to, watch, or read anything to see what is true or not if what they believe is right or wrong. Many don't care or if they do they have become so complacent with the way that things are they won't do anything to try to change anything. 

My friends we have to be loving and shining lights in this world and try to help changes people's hearts and minds. ALL people in this world are our brothers and sisters. And no matter how they act or what they believe getting angry and throwing around accusations and calling them vile names will not make them listen to you and that isn't right either. We need to stand up for what is right and act caring, logical, responsible adults. We must keep telling the truth no matter what . And for others to be willing to listen to and accept the truth we need to speak the truth but speak it with love and respect that is how to reach people.

I have actually had several pro-choice people say that I and other pro-lifers really are not pro-life at all just pro-birth, we only care that our beloved "fetuses" are born, but that's not true. True pro-life people believe in the sanctity of all human life, that all people are created by God in his image and are of immeasurable value regardless of how that child was conceived, or if it is completely healthy with no problems, or it's sex, or any other reason and the mother's life is just as important as her baby's life is. They are both equal and both should be loved and cared for! Neither should have to suffer or die because of abortion.

So what shocked me so much when I searched to see how many abortions there are in the U.S.? Here are the numbers that I found and they are staggering...

Since the legalization of abortion in 1973, there have been over 54 million abortions performed in the United States.

According to statistics there are roughly 1.21 million abortions per year in the U.S.

Per day there are over 3,300 abortions performed in the U.S. to put that into perspective just a little that is more than double the amount of people that died during Hurricane Katrina and hundreds over the number of people that were killed during the 9/11 attacks in 2001. 

I want you to stop and just think about that a moment...more innocent people are being killed everyday in the U.S. than where killed in that horrible tragedy on 9/11. And yet this is a legal practice allowed by our government. We all remember where we where on that September day in 2001 and rightly so because so many of our fellow Americans were killed that day. We should all think about that now in regards to how many children are being killed in this country everyday legally by their own mothers. Can we sit by and be silent and do nothing to stop this?

Abortion is the number one killer in the United States above heart disease and cancer and every  other illness or condition that kills Americans.

Worldwide the number of abortions are roughly 42 million per year.

With approximately 115,000 abortions per day. 

The Holocaust during WW2 took the lives of an estimated 11-17 million people. That was an abominable atrocity that should never be repeated. Sadly there is a another silent holocaust going on right here in the U.S. and around the world everyday that has already cost more than the number of lives during the Holocaust three times over - Abortion. And yet our government does nothing to stop it and indeed the current legislation is trying to do more to make it easier to get abortions for any reason at any time and for them to be funded by tax payers dollars. May God have mercy on the U.S. for these grievous sins.

Statistics Sources: Guttmacher Institute, CDC, and National Right to life. 

Abortion is a tragedy and a blot on human kind and it needs to stop! God is the giver of all life and no one has the right to take another person's life because of their size, gender, race or for any other reason. Abortion is an issue that is not spoken of nearly enough or if it is it only comes up at election times and is then quickly forgotten by most. It doesn't have a face for most people...it doesn't affect them and its an ugly topic so they turn the other way. It is thought to be one of the lesser issues by some. But do the numbers that are above sound like it is a lesser issue? 

Abortion is a taboo topic to some or one that is merely a "social or moral issue" and is swept under the rug or not talked about at all because people are afraid of what someone might think or offending someone. And everyone is so worried about hurting someones feelings and being politically correct that they don't even consider that by them keeping silent they are allowing this tragedy to continue day in and day out. But the old saying is very true "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." 

This is truly a matter of life or death for thousands of unborn children everyday and their mothers as well who's lives are never the same afterwards. We all need to stop closing our eyes and ears to what is going on around us and be a voice for the voiceless! Because if we who do have voices don't speak up for and defend the smallest and weakest among us no one will! We can not wait for someone else to speak up or make the first move to do something. Those innocent lives that are being taken could have just as easily have been any one of us or one of the people that we love. And will God hold us unaccountable if we know these atrocities are going on daily and do nothing to try and help stop them? 

We all need to pray for an end to abortion. And we all need to do everything we can to help educate people and open people's eyes to the truth about abortion. Please be a voice for the voiceless and give all those innocent children a voice for hope.