Abortions: Don’t Send Angels Back to Heaven
Features, Volume 1: Late October
By Robert TruongWhat’s more precious than life itself? Everyday in the United States people come to a decision to either have an abortion or to not have an abortion. Each year around 1,300,000 people have abortions that seem so cruel. If we didn’t have 1,300,000 abortions per year, can you even think of what our civilization would be like? In that many numbers, there is bound to be someone who either changes the world or invent something to make life better. There are plenty of people that believe women have the right to have abortions by their own choice. I, however, believe that the idea of accepting the choice to terminate a fetus’ life is inhumane and done out of fear.On the other hand, there are some cases where kids get pregnant at the ages from 10 to 17 years old. The question to this situation is: Should youth have an abortion if they are too young? Amandalina Guitierrez says “WATCH YOUR KIDS PEOPLE,” saying that the parents are at fault here. Although it could be true that parents are to blame, some kids don’t have parents to watch over them. But, they must have someone because no one is all alone.Right now the law states that if kids don’t have enough intelligence and are under 18, the parents or guardian will decide whether the baby lives or dies. The choice of abortion now depends on the situation. If the pregnant female can go through with having the baby, then let the baby be. And, if the child isn’t wanted, then give the baby up for adoption.One student suggests that in the future the girl might be longing for her baby and say things such as “Where’s my baby?” Why is it that she wants the baby now when she didn’t want him/her before? I asked this question around, and the answer that I have received from most people and students was that you need to make one choice. This choice is either to keep the baby or to give him/her away. Besides that, if the female is unable to go through with the pregnancy due to things such as medical complications, then the only thing that you can do is have an abortion.Many people might ask: “Would you have an abortion if your wife was raped by a man, and the child wasn’t yours?” For this, an abortion is performed all of the time, but is it really necessary? Does it all of a sudden occur to people that if their wife was raped that abortion is the only option? In these kinds of cases, abortions are performed out of love, anger, or plenty of other reasons. Yet, if you love your partner and they love you back, then can’t you both live with having a baby even though it isn’t yours? In these cases, does loving your partner open the gateway to abortion? I’ll let you think about that.In an interview on Bloomberg.com, a person named Rick Warner interviewed Tony Kaye who made the movie called Lake of Fire. The movie took an amazing 16 years to produce because of the topic that is so widely discussed in the US and caused him to use 6 million dollars of his own money. Lake of Fire was a movie showing the experiences of people who go through abortions. The documentary shows graphic scenes with footage of discarded legs, arms, and even heads. Warner asks “Was it really necessary to show such footage?” and Kaye replied saying “Since the film is about abortion, I felt I had to show what an abortion was. It would have been fraudulent of me not to have included that in the film.” Warner was curious about why Tony Kaye would talk about such a broad topic, and Kaye said that he approached the topic because he feels that people don’t know what they are doing and he wants to address how other people debate about whether abortion is murder or not. If you haven’t seen Lake of Fire, it would be a very good movie for you to watch. It will be a little graphic, but it is what comes with having an abortion.Another online article told the story of a woman named Ziii who had five abortions in a five year range (which is an abortion per year). She was young and didn’t know her choices. “It’s not like I enjoy having abortions,” Ziii claims “it’s just that I thought I had no other choice.” I’m not saying Ziii was a bad person for having five abortions, but she did it because she thought she didn’t have a choice. How can you think that you don’t have a choice when it comes to a life? This is probably a way of the past, of how it used to be. We used to think that we didn’t have a choice because we didn’t know much. But now it’s different. We know that we can continue with the pregnancy and have the baby be adopted. Ignorance was a thing of the past; let’s keep it that way.Nowadays, having an abortion usually isn’t the result of the problem that comes with the baby or of a problem the baby has. The problem is people’s fear. They may not seem to look like they are scared, but it’s as the old saying goes, “looks can be deceiving”. Some people are scared of the put-downs from others. Others are afraid of having their family find out that he/she has had pre-marital sex. Not to forget that some people can’t take the fact that their kid will have mental retardation (MR) and become a burden to them and their family. Once again, the potential responses of others to giving birth to a poor child with MR is a sign of fear. For example, “Poor John and Susie they have a MR child”. In effect, people will feel sorry for them, which is what John and Susie don’t want. This is called unsolicited sympathy and can also be fear-related.Take for example a family that has three children who are all in school and with both parents that are working hard to support their family. They might have an abortion because they fear the extra burden a new born baby would place on their family financially. One of the parents might have to stay home to raise the baby instead of working. Another fear-based example would be the young adult who is single and has no support from her boyfriend. She might be working on a career, but her plans would have to be halted in order to care for a newborn, which is obviously a new burden. Again, these are fear-based decisions.These fear-based decisions are based on reality and aren’t unfounded due to the fact that unplanned pregnancies lead to unplanned burdens. While there are burdens in life, people need to learn how to live with burdens. Completing schoolwork, educating yourself, starting a career, paying a house mortgage, making a car payment, and having a baby are burdens that many people go through. But having a baby should be good and should perhaps not even be deserving of being called a “burden”. And yet, abortions are still happening everyday? If these burdens aren’t faced, then how would we get along in life?An abortion isn’t only done purely out of fear, but a lot of the reasons are based in fear (even though we think it isn’t). It just seems to me that terminating an unplanned pregnancy is an easy way to relieve a burden that we are afraid to face.
I wrote this based on why people have abortions and to speak for those who do not have a voice. Those who do not have the voice to speak up for themselves are the babies themselves. As you should know, babies can’t speak for themselves to argue for their lives. So, we need to write for them, speak for them, stand for them, and fight for them. If you are AFRAID of these burdens, DON’T do things to run away from them. Just let someone take it from your hands with a smile. There are plenty of people who would accept a baby; you don’t have to keep the baby just because it was born by you. We have choices now, we don’t have to murder someone. We can just let someone else take care of them.
admin @ October 29, 2007