Internet Abortion Shows No Respect for Life
by Krystle Weeks
February 24, 2010
Yesterday, as I was digesting my second cup of coffee, my friend sent me a link to something she deemed really off the charts. I clicked on the link only to be disturbed by the accounts on a blog, in addition to watching a YouTube video that brought tears to my eyes listening to the accounts of a woman describing her abortion. The woman had no guilt or remorse for the harm she was placing on the baby she conceived, and this was hard to contemplate.
I said a prayer for this woman, but I began to ponder whether this is the first of many videos covering senseless acts of tragedy against an unborn life. Abortion is the loss of a life with much potential, and the fact that this was broadcast online for the world to see only provides the opportunity for bringing an alternative to abortion into the limelight.
With the help of a Pregnancy Resource Center, this woman could have received assistance and sound medical advice to bring her child into the world. Even if she did not want the child, there is the option of adoption. Adoption would allow this child to be loved and cared for by a family, in addition to allowing that child to pursue dreams and opportunities.
FRC recently published a report about the difference Pregnancy Resource Centers are making in the lives of women contemplating abortion. Take for example, Megan, who was considering using RU-486 (the same drug the woman in the video used) to abort her baby. However, after a change of heart and receiving support from her local Pregnancy Resource Center, she gave birth to her daughter, Ava.
Megan’s decision saved a beautiful life with much potential. The tragedy is that the woman in the video will never know her terminated child’s potential.
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By: Poogles | July 13, 2010 at 11:10 am
“this woman could have received assistance and sound medical advice to bring her child into the world. Even if she did not want the child, there is the option of adoption. ”
It’s not that she just didn’t want the child (although this is also true), it’s that she didn’t want the PREGNANCY. There’s not really any way out of that except abortion, once the embryo is there. She had an IUD in place to prevent pregnancy and used condoms as well, (though not consistently, as she notes).
Considering her one and only full-term pregnancy was so full of complications (“I made several trips to the emergency room throughout my last two trimesters. During my eighth month of pregnancy, I actually lost ten pounds due to a pretty horrible stomach virus. It was as if I had no immune system at all while pregnant. I went from having never received IV fluids in my life, to being intimately familiar with the feeling of cold fluids dumping into my veins”) and this one was headed down a rough road as well (“throwing up, getting dizzy, being a total bitch to my boyfriend and son, battling suicidal depression and crippling social anxiety… Yeah, being pregnant is not good for me.”), I can’t say I blame her in the least.
Then again, I’m a pro-choice atheist feminist, so I guess that’s not really a surprise is it? lol