39 Years

39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Ugh.

Why is this such a victory for "women's health?" What's healthy about getting an abortion? I would be tempted to say that it's got about the same health benefits as a Fench breast implant. Last time I checked, it wasn't generally healthy to jab instruments, etc... into your body. Given the choice, you wouldn't do it, right? But you know what? At least most surgeries are something you have done to yourself, not another person.

Something like 50 million abortions since 1973 - and that's in the U.S. alone. I hate math, but I'm pretty sure that statistically guarantees that I know someone who's had an abortion. Of course, they don't talk about it, so I have no idea who they are. I bet they would be surprised, maybe hurt, if they saw this blog. If it's you, I'm sorry.

50 million doesn't really work as a meaningful statistic - it's just too big. That knowledge alone should put some perspective on it. Everything's got a number attached to it, so it doesn't do any good to implore people to avoid becoming a statistic. But still, can anyone honestly say that they want to be a part of that number?

Please, don't get an abortion. Don't let loved ones get abortions. There's an innocent life in there, just waiting to be born - waiting to learn how to talk and ask those sweet little questions like "why is the sky blue", waiting to make friends on their first day of school, waiting to see a beautiful sunset or listen to Beethoven's 9th symphony for the first time. Everything we are as people, everything we have or want and have learned or forgotten, everything that brings us sadness or joy, every last speck of what it is to be a living, breathing and feeling human being is in that little child. Don't take it away.