Whether the Pro-Life movement is about babies dead or alive, it does not respect a woman's abilities & right to choose.

You can't legislate morals and you can't judge a woman by the choice she decides to make. It's a personal matter and no one but the highest Universal Power can determine whether she is fit for Heaven or Hell. Which is the lesser evil--bringing a child into hopeless circumstances or stopping the madness before it has a chance to take root? Such is the dilemma of a pregnant mother whose only obligation is to make the right choice for herself and her child based on her circumstances.

No one can know the future of a child born into unfavorable or detrimental circumstances. A woman must decide what's best and she should be provided weeks of counseling and emotional support, not just ten or fifteen minutes. Once she has had the counseling she needs, she must be trusted to make the decision that's best for herself and her unborn child. But choosing to terminate a pregnancy has karmic consequences. The universe will be the judge, not the people.

What happens to babies once the mother decides to have an unwanted child depends on many things that I suspect to be true. Is it about babies or about the market to provide fresh babies to adoptive parents? If such is the case, what happens to babies that are not adopted? You see, I don't think the Pro-Life movement is about all dead babies. It's also not about caring for unwanted babies after they are born. Once the baby is born, you can't return it to be womb, and there is no expiration date for a newborn child. We seem to care more about babies in the womb than about children in the livingroom (if they are lucky enough to have one).

Regarding a woman's right to choose, all we can do is provide knowledge, compassion, and emotional support with the understanding that the choice she makes is not up to us. Each woman must do the right thing--for herself based on her reality. I've known of abortions since childhood. There were fancy names for it but the results were the same--termination of pregnancy. I've heard of women dying by clothes hanger injected into the body to cause miscarriage. I've heard of unwanted babies being shaken to death, starved and neglected, beaten to death, or stuck into foster homes only to be abused and thrown away like yesterday's trash. Once they age-out of the social services system, the horror continues. The horror stories are endless. What mother would want to bring a child into a world like this? What mother would want to watch her child grow up on the streets as a victim of poverty living in a state of hopelessness, destined for failure? What mother would want to feed the prison system or the predators on the street, knowing her child didn't stand a chance?

Who are we to decide how a mother chooses to save the life of her child? If we lived our lives with a sense of compassion for mothers who face dilemmas regarding the future of their unborn children, if we stopped the trafficking of newborn children, if we stopped persecuting mothers who make the best choice under the circumstances, if we stopped prejudging and ostracizing would-be mothers, I think this world would be a better place in which to raise a child. Society would be filled with children who are loved and who have a chance at living happy and prosperous lives.