A mother with an unplanned pregnancy may face tremendous challenges: Will my husband/boyfriend support this child? What might her friends or parents think? If she has a career, she might worry that being pregnant and then having a child will disrupt her work life. If she has no job and the father is not helping, how will she pay the baby expenses?
These and other obstacles can bring strong pressure to choose abortion. It would seem that the abortion will solve all those problems, and that life for that mother will return to normal. The statistics on physical, emotional, and mental health on post-aborted women indicate otherwise.
Women who have an unplanned baby may indeed face a difficult road. Yet the pain of carrying and birthing an unexpected baby can be overwhelmed by the pride of protecting and nurturing that new human person. Some women who have conceived children under the worst circumstance-being raped-have reported that carrying the child to birth helped them rebuild their self respect after that horrible experience.
It is always best to wait until marriage for having sex, so that children enjoy the stability and support of both parents. But should a woman get pregnant without having a husband, let us support her and her child through the hardships. In the end she-and the rest of us-will enjoy the lasting pride of helping others through temporary difficulties. No to abortion; yes to love and life.
Rudy Poglitsh
rpoglitsh@live.com
more letters at http://letterstotheTOS.blogspot.com
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