Abortion Risks - Moral Risks of Abortion

The Embryo / Fetus - Not Yet a Person?
So, do you think that an embryo or fetus is not yet a person? Do you think that you yourself just "happened" into existence? Have you been fed the line of "Darwin's Theory", that we evolved from another life form? Let the truth be known - You and the child that you are carrying are not an accident. God planned you and your unborn child even before you were born. Even though God has given us "free will", He knew ahead of time what was going to happen to you and how you were going to handle each and every event in your life. The Bible says this in Jeremiah 29:11: "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future".

You see, God loves you even when you make bad choices and end up in bad situations. He does however; expect you to do the right thing when you realize that you are about to make a bad choice or a bad decision. God is with each and every one of us at all times. He is omnipresent, meaning that He is present in all places at the same time. The time (minutes, hours, days, years) as we know it in this world, is so very different than God's timing. The Bible also says in 2 Peter 3:8: "But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day". Almost sounds hard to believe, right?

The point is that God created everything, including the Heavens and the Earth. He created man (Adam) from the dust of the earth, and breathed His spirit into that man. He created a woman much in the same way (Eve), but He also removed a rib from Adam and placed Adam's rib into the woman. God also created a way in which men and women could reproduce; which is through sexual intercourse. With every baby that is conceived, God breathes a spirit into him or her. That spirit is also commonly known as your soul. Sure, science can explain the fundamentals of conception, of how the sperm travels through the canal, enters the egg, which in turn becomes fertilized and results in pregnancy. However, science has yet to discover just how and when a soul actually enters the body. It is only God who knows when that transaction takes place.

There are many other situations in which a woman chooses to terminate her pregnancy or give her baby up for adoption. So often, a woman convinces herself that she is so sure that she does not want her life to change. She does not want, or cannot handle the responsibility of raising a child, whether it be for financial reasons, lack of maturity, poor living situations, it's not the right time, confusion, a bad relationship and so on. At the same time, if she chooses to have an abortion over giving the baby up for adoption, there is the possibility that she fears the unknown and does not want to feel any shame, real or imagined, for putting her baby up for adoption. The word "imagined" is used because one can only speculate how others might react. The fact that someone would kill her unborn child just because she feared society would shame her or that she herself would feel ashamed is really heartbreaking. It takes a weak person to put a child to death because of the inconvenience of a pregnancy, possibly without anyone knowing she was even pregnant (except for God of course), but it takes a strong person with good character to admit she made a mistake and then to go ahead and take responsibility for what has happened. You do realize that abortion and adoption are not the only choices in this situation. Just like in the movies, you can choose to take a chance on love and raise your baby yourself.

God works in mysterious ways, and if you ask Him for His help and forgiveness, He will guide you to make the right decision. No matter what way you look at the situation, when it comes to an unwanted pregnancy, all of these choices are hard to make and are life-altering; but only one of these choices is immoral. If you are reading this, you can surely figure out which choice that is. You need to realize that you are not alone, no matter how isolated you feel. Always remember that a bad situation is only temporary and that there are solutions to your problelm. Getting an abortion may seem to be the "easy way out" right now, but there is nothing "easy" about taking someone's life. Won't you do the right thing, and make the right choice? For your baby's sake?

You Will Have Regrets...
Maybe you are young, maybe you were raped and became pregnant, maybe you were in a relationship that you thought was going somewhere, and now the man who got you pregnant is no longer in your life. Maybe someone has rejected you because of this pregnancy; maybe it was the father of your unborn baby who rejected you. Maybe you got pregnant from a one-night-stand, maybe the pregnancy is from incest, maybe you are promiscuous and you just like sex, maybe the father of the baby is from a different culture, maybe the father of the baby is married to someone else, or maybe you are married to someone else. Maybe someone dared you to have sex and you got pregnant, or maybe it was peer pressure, maybe you got pregnant on purpose to trap the father or maybe this was the first time you ever had sex and you had no idea that you would end up pregnant. The maybes and the possibilities are ENDLESS. But the fact remains: You Are Pregnant. Did you plan to get pregnant? Hopefully not if you are now considering abortion.

Although research has shown that In the very beginning stages of fetal development, your unborn child may not have the capacity to feel pain, sometimes not up until the 8th week of pregnancy, please know that God feels a tremendous amount of pain when you inflict harm on, and destroy an innocent soul, an innocent life. Also, it is a proven fact that most women, who have an abortion at any given point in their lives, eventually regret making that decision. Sure, your conscience may not be suffering right now, or it may not even phase you for a couple of years; but if you abort your child, one day you will feel the emotional pain and guilt of extinguishing someone else's life - an innocent life at that

If you are still seriously considering abortion, even if you are in denial right now and saying that it isn't wrong; deep down inside, you must know that it is. It doesn't matter how many excuses you come up with or ways you try to justify it, the fact remains that having an abortion is just plain WRONG. Sure, the legal system says it's okay to have an abortion if the conditions are met, but just because it's legal, does that make it morally right?

What About Adoption?
Have you thought about giving your baby up for adoption? Sure, there are people out there who frown on someone carrying a baby to term and then giving that baby away for someone else to love and care for; but most often than not, it is the right choice. Many women, who become pregnant and do not want the baby, choose to either raise the child on her own or abort the pregnancy. One of her biggest fears about adoption may be that when it actually came time to give the baby up, she would have become too attached to the baby while carrying him or her in her womb for 9 months. There are so many made-for-television movies out there that promote that very same fear. They show how a woman (pre-teen to adult) becomes pregnant, is talked out of an abortion and is persuaded to give the child up for adoption once the baby is born. In these types of movies the woman goes through all kinds of emotional turmoil, heartache and inevitably does not give the child up because she has become too attached to the baby, or because she is made to feel that there is a certain stigma in society that shames her for not wanting to raise the baby she had given birth to, claiming it to be "unnatural". These are movies people! Yes, sometimes this does happen, but with the proper counseling and planning, this doesn't have to be the case. We live in a society that feeds off of the media, and the media counts on that. Many of these movies are made in an attempt that would cause women to realize that once a new mother goes through a pregnancy, her maternal instincts will kick in and she will fall in love with that baby, wanting to raise that child no matter what life throws her way. Many of these movies are made so that women would no longer choose abortion, but would choose life instead. Sometimes they are made just to get the ratings. Unfortunately, often times, these movies have a tendency to create the opposite effect on women who have unwanted pregnancies. After years of viewing these types of movies, a woman (or teenager) who did not intend to, becomes pregnant and seems to be brainwashed by what she has seen on television regarding unwanted pregnancies and adoption. She fears that she too would not be able to follow through with the adoption. You see, once you get past the initial shock and worry of finding out that you are pregnant, so many wonderful events can actually take place during a pregnancy. Nine months can make all the difference in the world when making the choice of life over death.

There are so many couples out there, and in the United States alone, that for some reason or another, cannot conceive a child. Actually, some of these very women who are unable to conceive, have had an abortion at some point in her life, causing her to become sterile. Unfortunately because there are so many women who choose to abort their baby rather than put him or her up for adoption, there are a minimal amount of healthy babies available to be adopted. Because of this situation, it has become increasingly difficult for loving, qualified people to adopt a child in America. Many adopt from outside of the country because either the adoption process is too difficult, or because it is too long of a wait for an American baby. Also, due to the fact that the amount of babies to adopt here in the U.S. are so limited, many adopting parents are actually willing to allow an open adoption, where the birth mother is allowed to play an active role in that child's life if she so chooses. Adoption isn't like it used to be in the "old days" where a baby or child was given up for adoption, never to know of or hear from their birth parents again. Of course if you were to want a closed adoption, that option is still available. In fact, there are many types of adoption and because there is such a strong need in America for healthy babies to adopt, many agencies will work with you to make sure that your baby is given the kind of loving home you would want him or her to have. Many agencies will also allow you to take an active role in choosing the adoptive parents. So before you end up making the wrong decision for you and your baby, won't you at least consider the possibility of adoption and give your baby the life he or she deserves?