What effect has Abortion had on your generation?

         Abortion has allowed us to ask ourselves, “What’s the big deal anyway?” Our society tends to say it’s just a simple surgery. Abortions take place because we tend to think of the situation as a condition, a complication, a bodily invasion, and an unwanted expectation that we can fix with a medical eradication. We simply call a child in the womb a fetus and don’t remember that we were in that situation at one point in time. At 10 weeks old in the womb, a babe has all the organs necessary for life.  Did you know that abortion is the most common surgery for women in the United States? It isn’t just a snip snap – a medical procedure that is harmless - it kills a life, the life of an unborn child.

This summer I visited a camp in Alaska and a woman came and spoke about her life and told us, crying, that she had aborted her twin daughters. Over 35 years later and she still faced the consequences and pain of having an abortion. At the point in time at which she had her abortion, she was so focused on the effects of having a child that she didn’t consider the lives that she was destroying. Permitting abortion has allowed people to think that they can discard their “mistakes” but in reality we will eventually have to face our mistakes and learn from them, or live a life of denial and unresolved guilt. Adoption is available to people who don’t want or feel they cannot handle the responsibility of raising a child.

Abortion installs a mindset in people that disregards human life, the life of a child. When we disregard one life, what stops us from disregarding life in general? You can see examples of humans doubting each other’s worth, in forms of lack of respect for the elderly, aging, or infirmed. Even if people believe their own lie that abortion is just a procedure eventually they will feel the pain of the unknown, of what could have been.

Allowing abortion has led us to become self-centered, because we are just focusing on getting rid of the “problem” and not allowing that “problem” to be considered a blessing. It must be conveyed that abortion is wrong because if two people have come together and a baby is formed, who are they to say that what has been created is not worthy to live?  There are many brilliant lives that never had the opportunity to share their story with us, because their flame was extinguished before they had a chance to illuminate the world.

Today’s youth have embraced the idea of abortion as a “solution” to their mistakes. The outcome is more sexual activity which in turn leads to lack of commitments and purity in dating or courting relationships.

Abortion is wrong and I’m appalled that we have allowed it this long; we need to put an end to this closed door form of a Holocaust!