ABORTION!!!!

What is abortion? Abortion is the expulsion or termination of foetus from the womb before it able to survive on its own. A foetus is a human embryo at 8 weeks or more. At 8 weeks (2 months) your baby has umbilical cord, knee joints, brain, eye lids, uterus, cervix and a vagina/penis. That to me sounds like a human hence I feel that abortion is murder.

These are the reasons why people opt for abortion… They abort because the pregnancy is unplanned, finances (means to care for the baby are scarce), they got raped, cheated on husband and scared of husband or partner finding out that the baby is not his, incest, no longer in love with the father of the baby, to spite the father for leaving you pregnant, child out of wedlock, scared of what people are going to say, scared of family, scared of church people etc

To me all these reasons do not justify murder but I empathise with people whose pregnancies are a result of rape or incest, incest in a case where a father, uncle, brother or grandfather rapes you but still killing an innocent child is not an answer, rather just give the baby away. There are options as to what to do with the baby if you are unable to care for it. Giving the child to adoption agencies is one the options.

People think that when you give your child away it means you will never see him/her again. That is not always the case; the relationship you want with your child depends on you. In 2002 statistics of women who could not conceive was 7.3 million, people are desperate for children so killing them is extremely cruel.

Imagine if you abort the only child you could ever have? Can you live with yourself knowing that you have murdered an innocent child? Can you ever make peace with it? Your whole life you are going to be counting and estimating how old your child would have been had you not murdered her/him?

I cannot tell people to not have an abortion because situations and circumstances’ are different, but I can offer this advice to someone who is thinking of having an abortion.

You are not the first person with an unplanned pregnancy and you are not the last, Deciding to murder your unborn baby because you did not plan for it/ you are not sure of the father/you are scared of how your family or society will react or maybe you were raped is not excuse to have an abortion. Taking life is unjustifiable.

Another thing on abortion is backstreet abortion or backdoor abortion. This abortion is abortion that is  performed by persons lacking the necessary skills or an environment lacking minimal medical standards, this kind of abortion is illegal. A lot of women die because of this kind of abortion, it is dangerous and unnecessary. Backyard abortion is performed using wires (usually coat hanger wire) Knitting needles, and many other sharp things in an aim to brake the layer that covers an unborn baby known as “vernix  caseosa”, who knows what else they can prick while trying to brake the venix. The bleeding that takes place when these kinds of abortions are being performed  is enormous and it is not healthy for a human being to lose such amount of blood at once. The environments where these methods are carried out are not hygienic, they are dirty places and the tools are also unsterilized, if they are…then they are most likely to be sterilized using cheap brandy (alcohol). It is believed that 20 million backyard abortions are performed annually and that 69000 deaths and million injuries arise from such behaviours.

People are believed to be going to backyard abortionists because the nurses in hospital ridicule them and sometimes people are scared of bumping into someone that they know. Risking your life, health and being scared of someone who does not even pay your bills is just beyond me.

If anyone decides to terminate their pregnancy, please do so safely. Go to the hospital and have a proper procedure done rather than risking your life at these doggy places.

Abortion is cruelty, if you are thinking of having an abortion please think carefully for life is not replaceable. It might convincingly feel like there is no other alternative but believe me there is, the torment, the guilt and the hurt that you are going to feel after you have realised what you have done is unbearable.

If you decide to do it anyways, then do it safely!

 For those who have done it already then please visit this site for help and how after abortion. www.abortionrecovery.org

here is what your baby looks like at 8 weeks/2 months. its almost human.