A Permanent Solution for a Temproary Situation
Pregnancy is temporary. It is a transition for a woman and her family, her support system, and those with whom she deals, but it is always temporary.
Picture pregnancy as a plane trip. You may or may not like to fly. You may or may not be comfortable during any part of the flight. Perhaps the trip is unexpected and disrupting really important plans. Maybe you didn’t even decide to get on board, you were forcibly taken in a traumatic event. No matter how you got there, after a period of time the flight will end and you will deplane. Is there a risk of life? Yes, but millions of people fly every day without crashing. Airplane flights are temporary too.
The average term for pregnancy is 40 weeks. A woman may not even know she is pregnant for six or more weeks. Thus the time frame is perceived shorter still. Conception is the point at which the sperm and egg unite, creating a new human being. Implantation happens up to a few days later. Within 18 to 21 days, the baby’s heart is beating. Another few weeks and you can see his form as he is being knit together in his mother’s womb. By six weeks, the time most women are figuring out they are pregnant, a tiny baby is clearly visible. At ten weeks old, a very common time for women to seek abortion, her baby is complete. He just needs time to grow, just as he does after he is born. Yes, at this point, one can readily distinguish between boys and girls.
Forty weeks can seem like an eternity. Even if pregnancy was planned, expected and greatly desired. But most definitely, if the pregnancy is the result of an assault. Sometimes pregnancy is disruptive to plans because of the symptoms or even just unexpected, causing fear. Stressors of various levels are common, if not expected during pregnancy.
We must understand that stress is a part of everyone’s life. Sexual assault shouldn’t happen to anyone. Pregnancy as a result of rape happens more often that we would like to believe. Too many women still remain silent. For women who disclose the assault, people will assume she wants abortion or even try to persuade her to abort.
Abortion does not un-rape a woman. It kills her child, robbing her of her maternity. She becomes complicit in a crime against another person. The retaliation against an innocent human cannot bring justice due to the aggressor. The rapist should be punished, not the child.
Abortion procedures vary, but most scrape the uterus after killing the baby by removing him, tearing his limbs off, cutting him in pieces and crushing his skull. The sudden drop of hormones often causes depression and other physical symptoms and causes interruption in the differentiation of the mammary glands, particularly in first pregnancy. Those two violent physical assaults on a woman’s body do not compare to what happened to her child, but do carry long term risks.
Risks associated with abortion are physical: perforation of the uterus, damaging other organs, scarring causing future miscarriages or inability to dilate, requiring cesarean sections, excessive bleeding, abnormal periods, breast cancer risks and sleeplessness. Risks are emotional: depression, guilt, inability to grieve, extreme loss, anger and frustration. They may also be mental or cognitive: inability to make decisions, trouble concentrating, self sabotage in relationships, jobs and goals, scattered or disjointed thinking. These are just some of the risks.
Pregnancy is temporary. Women need not subject themselves to any of these risks. Pregnancy carries risks too. So does crossing the street, driving or swimming. If you are alive you are at risk. The key thought here is that you don’t have to kill another human being, exposing yourself to excessive risk.
No matter where you live, you have options. There is help for pregnant women. From counseling to rent, millions of prolife people are willing to help you through this temporary situation, no matter how you happened to find yourself pregnant. Online? Search pregnancy help.
There is never a need to choose abortion as a
permanent solution to a temporary situation.
What do you say when someone suggests abortion is the answer?