Posted on 11/25/2014 10:49:18 AM PST by wagglebee
Molly Corn, an abortion advocate at Vanderbilt University, wrote an article in The Vanderbilt Hustler titled “The hypocrisy of anti-abortion extremists.”
In the article she said, “Abortion is right. It is right because it is a means of allowing women immediate control over their own bodies and futures. It is right because we no longer live in a world where it is imperative to have children to ensure that humanity itself continues. It is right because every child deserves to be a gift, not an accident. It is right because bodily autonomy is the most basic form of justice.”
Although Corn made a few unsound arguments in her statement about why abortion is “right”, the most ridiculous was her belief that if a child is an “accident” they should be aborted.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, every year in the United States there are 6.6 million pregnancies and of those, 51% are unintended or accidents. So, in other words, if Corn’s ideology was enforced over three million babies would be killed through abortion in one year’s time; that’s two million more than the current U.S. abortion rate of (approximately) one million each year.
Gabrielle Timm, a pro-life student at Vanderbilt, addressedCorn’s argument in a Letter to the Editor. She wrote, “I am adopted. To be more specific, I am the unplanned result of a one-night stand that likely involved alcohol. After my birth mother became aware of her pregnancy, my birth father wanted an abortion and she seriously considered that option for a while.
While I am an “accident,” I think it is possible to be both an accident and a gift. To my parents, who weren’t able to have biological children, I am a gift. To imply otherwise is insensitive and offensive to me, to my parents and to many adopted children and their parents, as well as to the courageous people who chose adoption over abortion.”
She continues, “The column states that the pro-life movement often makes adoption out to be “the easy choice.” My birth mother, and others like her, did not make an easy choice. But, to many people, adoption is the only moral solution to an incredibly difficult situation when a birth parent does not want to raise the child or is unable to do so. To interpret the pro-life position so superficially, or to state it as a fact, is a gross misrepresentation of the pro-life movement’s stance as a whole regarding adoption.”
Just like Timm, there are many babies who are conceived on “accident” but their biological mothers make the brave decision to place them for adoption. Unfortunately, there are also children born into families where they are literally unwanted and are suffering from abuse and neglect.
The reality is some of these children are placed in foster care and some have incredibly difficult lives; however, this doesn’t change the fact that abortion kills a unique human life and is always wrong. And since our society will never be completely free of all social ills, it’s imperative that the pro-life movement works to protect not only the unborn, but children who are threatened by unsafe families.
We need to show the world that abortion is not a solution for unplanned pregnancies or for ending the suffering of children; instead we should look to both adoption of infants and adoption of foster children as part and parcel of the pro-life cause.
Was Molly conceived accidentally?
Every child has a right to be a surprise.
There, Fixed It™
"Oh, hello, I wasn't expecting you. I think you deserve a proper welcome, and since I can't give you one..."
Out comes the long knife. Sudden Jihad Syndrome!
And yet most of the moms who get abortions are children themselves.
“Abortion Activist: All Babies Conceived Accidentally Should Be Aborted”
Tyrants always start with “should” and end up with “must.”
Especially since she consciously did the baby-making thing, which is like transporting a person INTO your house, then killing them because you didn’t want them to be there.
My poor babies, only one of the three would have survived had this person been in charge. I consider the other two "surprise blessings".
My mother says I was a diaphragm baby so I guess I wouldn't be here either.
GOD IS SO MERCIFUL.
If I were God I would zap these demons today.
Well Sarah sometimes you don’t realize it was an accident until after they’re born. Like you.
I believe that when the hero of benghazi was a state senator he supported neglecting the baby until it died. Just the ones who were not “successfully” aborted.
He didn’t “support” neglecting a baby who survived an abortion, or WAS BORN, until the baby died....
He supported a law REQUIRING the neglect of that born baby until it died.....
yes
Our 15 year old foster child was days away from her appointment to have an abortion when we discovered the situation. She said that she was having the abortion to hide the fact that she got pregnant. I told her that it wasn’t hidden anymore and now that we knew, asked her what she really wanted to do. Fortunately, she said that she really wanted to keep the baby, so we supported her in that decision and ended up adopting her. That baby, now my 10 year old grandson, is one of the greatest joys of my life.
I mean, if the lefties were even more consistent in some of the philosophy of being lefty, they might get a heart after all.
You know, as a mother of five I just don't see why some people are so 'surprised' when a woman gets pregnant. There is a logical and eminently observable indicator for potential pregnancy and I'd think most people would notice that they were engaged in that activity.
Sort of like how drinking can logically lead to inebriation. If you're drunk it shouldn't surprise you if you've been drinking.
Great story, thanks so much for sharing!
bttt
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