Superbowl Ad

I am fiercely pro-life. My recent loss has nothing to do with it: I have always been a huge defender of the unborn. PLEASE NOTE: I AM NOT DEBATING ABORTION WITH YOU.

However, I just read a fantasticly thought provoking entry right here: Superbowls and Abortions.

I am heartbroken for this mother. I can honestly say I don't even know her full story, but clearly her life was in grave imminent danger, and the medical interventions they chose saved her life and not her baby's.

I do not agree with abortion for any reason. This will be harsh and provoke a few flames thrown my way, but I don't give a crap if your uncle raped you, it does not give you the right to kill your child. Someone (like me!) would happily and lovingly raise it, even if it was sick. Beauty can rise from ashes.

My exception is when the life of the mother is at risk. The father and other children, if any, should not be asked to survive without the much loved matriarch of the family. Also because often times, when attempts are made to save the baby even if it risks the mother, then they both die, and the devastation is even further.

Totally besides the point, I still don't know if I could do it. I think of John; he wouldn't want me to die. But I'm having a hard enough time with guilt when I didn't even do anything wrong. If I chose to save myself and my child had to die, I don't think I could ever forgive myself. I think it's the same as the case if my house was on fire, I would run in to save my babies, even if we all died in the process. I'd just have to try. But I still think in that case, it's for the family to decide what is best for them, based on the specific medical case and risk to the mother.

A heartbreaking situation, that I wish no one ever had to face.

What the mother of that other post is saying about faith versus luck, even though I have some extremely strong withstanding faith here, I have to agree with her on it. Pam Tebow will say (copying the other author) that "she! was! faithful! and her baby! didn't! die!"

That's so wonderful that her baby didn't die. It's a blessing and a miracle. But I have faith too and my baby *did* die. I was as unlucky as a new mother can be: my baby died for no reason. I do not believe that God chose to kill my baby, absolutely not. I believe that sin exists and therefore so does hardship and the cards just played wrong for my hand. Bad luck, not God, took my precious Kathlyn. If I believed that God purposely planned to kill my baby, I wouldn't be able to love Him. What could He possibly want with a little baby?


So now I'm frustrated with this ad. Why can't it advocate for not choosing abortion and going the adoption route? I just shiver to think of all the poor mothers who made the heartwrenching decision that NO ONE UNDERSTANDS unless they've been through it, who will have their hearts wrenched once again because they chose to save themselves under dire circumstances. It's just losing site of the actual abortion problem. The fact is that most abortions occur because the baby is a mere inconvenience to parents who simply weren't careful despite massive amounts of education on how not to get pregnant, and innocent life is the price paid. Addressing the anti-abortion issue based on the "risk to the mother" is addressing the smallest of reasons abortions take place. It would save thousands more unborn lives if they addressed prevention measures and adoption options, instead of targeting the poor families faced with that unthinkable choice.