Lets Save Lives

I am a mother of 4, with the youngest being severely disabled, and a grand mother of 3. Though I personally have never had an abortion I have had 2 miscarriages. The grief that I experienced with my miscarriages was very real and painful and still is. They were a part of me that never got to grow to their full potential outside of the womb.
The difference between a miscarriage and an abortion is a choice. One the body makes the decision, the other the mind. What we both share is the grief afterwards and the pain deep within and yes guilt. Though the miscarriages that I had had were beyond my control, I still found myself wondering if I did something wrong that caused them.
Recently a woman I didn’t even know crossed my path. The pain, guilt shame and despair she carries on a daily basis for choosing to have not one not two but three abortions was and is very real. She has tried to forget and bury what she has done and the pain that went with it but cannot. Every time she sees a child around the age of her aborted children she is reminded that she made the choice to end her child’s life. The reason someone chooses, and yes it is a choice, is not the issue. The issue is the emotions women are left to live with afterwards. It affects them for the rest of their lives.
Being a mother of a severely disabled daughter I see how much potential each life has even though the world does not see that in my daughter. Each and every life is so very precious and has worth and a purpose. Abortion cuts both the unborn child and the mother’s life and potential short. Neither is able to live out their true purpose of life which was intended for them. Their lives have forever been altered. The child never gets the chance to know what life had to offer them and what their purpose in life would have been. The mother’s purpose has been altered and changed with a lifetime of guilt and shame in a negative way for life, if it is not dealt with.
My heart grieves for the unborn that are aborted but also for the grieving women who feel they have no other choice but to abort the child they carry without really knowing the life-time consequences of their decision that lie ahead of them. The hardest thing for these women will be and is being able to forgive themselves for ending their child’s life. By ending abortion now we are saving the lives of both the unborn child and the mother’s.