One young woman, a college student at Texas Christian University, tells the following story:
“Several years ago, a 19-year-old mother found herself pregnant in Houston, Texas from a one night stand. She had a thriving acting and modeling career and was planning to move to LA to persue more in the performing arts as soon as she had enough money. Her parents were ex-pats in Indonesia, and she was living alone in the big city with no one to turn to. She had enough money to get an abortion, and she had the legal right to get an abortion since abortion had been legalized a few years before. Instead, she went to the Catholic Diocese of Houston and lived there in their crisis pregnancy unit, right next door to the hospital. She had chosen to have the baby and give it up for adoption, and she went through the process and was taken good care of until the time for birth came – which was early. Because she had bonded with the baby while carrying it in her womb, she refused to leave the premature infant alone until she knew that the baby would be okay. A few weeks later, the baby reached 5 pounds and was taken out of the incubator, off the ventilator, and was given to a new set of parents. The woman went on with her life and her career, never forgetting about the baby, and never regretting that she didn’t have an abortion and chose adoption instead. 26 years later, via the Internet, the woman and the child (now grown up) found each other, and she was reassured that she did the right thing. The baby grew up in a loving home, was given the best of everything, and had received an amazing education and an amazing family. She was showered with love and attention and never regretted for a moment that she was not aborted and was instead given up for adoption.… I am that baby, that “fetus.”
Deanna Darr “Aspects of the Pro-Life Movement” Charles K Bellinger, ed. The Abortion Debate: TCU Voices (Fort Worth, Texas: Churchyard Books, 2012) 10 – 11
There are so many people who are in this world today who were almost aborted. Like this college student, they are here because their mothers were brave enough to choose life. The world would be a much poorer place without them. How many college students, teachers, artists, physicians, writers, have been lost to abortion? How different would the world be if abortion had never been legalized?
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