Life

I was telling Thomas about this but he made me stop because it made him sad. I had to come finish telling someone. I just watched Gianna Jessen speak on YouTube. You can watch it too, here and here. Gianna is a woman who survived an abortion in 1977- her parents were both 17 years old, and at 30 weeks along decided they didn't want her, and turned to an abortion clinic. The procedure was unsuccessful, as Gianna was born alive instead of dead, and was put into foster care with cerebral palsy as a result of the attempted abortion. She walks today with a mere limp, something her doctors never thought she would be able to do, but her spirit is so strong as she speaks of things she is passionate about. I have never met her but I love her for her passion for life and her determination to be an advocate for good. I am shocked into fascination by her story. I won't tell it all here, she does that much better than I could. I am confused and outraged at a man who tried to take her life but ended up signing her birth certificate, and is proud and passionate of his accomplishments of murdering over a million children before they had a chance to live. I truly do not understand how people cannot see it as murder. I think of Gianna's mother- as I sit here just a few weeks further along than she was when she chose to end her pregnancy. I do not understand how, feeling this baby boy move and live within me, anyone could in good conscience not feel that this baby is living and deserves life. I cannot understand, remembering watching early ultrasounds of both my children and marveling at how much they moved and kicked and danced inside me without me even feeling it, that people could not consider that life, and deserving of life. I would never be able to live knowing that I ended that for someone so small and helpless, someone God trusted me with the care of. How could anyone betray that trust, no matter what the circumstances? A mother's body needs nourishment to nurture babies, whether they are inside or outside her body. I love my baby boy, my Little Brother, and I am so excited and proud to give him life- to be giving him life every day.