Pro-Choice advocates have continually won a divisive battle; thanks to them, you have a choice. Are you appreciative for that choice? Sometimes we take things for granted when we forget that not everyone has the blessings we enjoy. Well, perhaps you’ll be more appreciative for those who have lobbied for your right to choose abortion if you reflect a little on the fact that not everyone out there has choices.
Would-Be Parents
Infertility is reaching epidemic proportions in the U.S. and other industrialized nations. Further education leading to later procreation, hormones in processed foods—these are two of many suspected culprits, but no one really knows who or what to blame. Regardless, many couples don’t have the option of bearing biological children. Fertility treatments are expensive, emotionally and physically draining, and often fruitless attempts at circumventing nature’s choice. For many healthy couples who want children to love and nurture, that choice is not theirs to make.
Many hopeful would-be parents lie in bed at night with aching, empty arms, hoping someone like you will exercise the right to choose for their benefit. You’re their only hope, in many ways. They wish they could be parents, but they didn’t get a choice.
Would-Be Children
Legislation has determined that a mother’s right to choose supersedes a baby’s right to live—as long as that baby’s lungs have yet to fill with air, that is. Just think of all the choices you’ve made as a child—decisions about what color shoes to wear to the park, the treat you wanted your mom to pack for you in your lunch, the coloring page you gave your mom for Mother’s Day. Maybe they don’t seem too important, now, but what if someone tried to take them away? Of course, no one has that right. Depending on the choice you make about your pregnancy, your baby may never get to make any of those choices.
Your baby deserves the same rights you’ve enjoyed for the past 18, 20, or 25 years. Maybe you want to let him or her have the opportunity to enjoy those rights, but you know that you can’t provide a stable home. In that caase, there are would-be parents out there, waiting with open arms and a decked-out nursery, dreaming of hand-colored Mother’s Day and Father’s Day cards. Someday, you may choose to meet your child, and if you do, he or she might choose to thank you for the way you exercised your right to choose.
You have something precious: an important choice. No one can take it from you, make it for you, or let you change it, once it’s been made. Whatever you choose, realize that it’s important and it’s yours. And as you choose, remember: Not everyone has a choice.
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