Today we have a guest post from Mackenzie Clark Howard, an editor in Nashville, Tennessee. Her website is coming soon.
I’ve always been pro-life, and I couldn’t pretend to be otherwise. Since I’ve been a young teenager, I’ve been disturbed that someone has the legal right, the choice, if you will, to kill their child. However, in my adult married life, I’ve found something else much more disturbing.
You see, as far as I understand, it’s not just someone who has the legal choice. It is women. I look at my husband, a teacher, who loves kids, and I wonder about his rights. Given, he’s a bit gun-shy about plunging into the world of parenthood, but he looks forward to some day in the future when we have our first child. We were married when we were pretty young by today’s standards, so we’ve always been careful planners. (Note to the world: pregnancy is in fact preventable.) His gun-shyness aside, had we had a happy accident, for my husband, abortion would have never been an option. During such what if discussions about how our life might change, my husband has stated that we’d scale back and make it work just fine. He could even live without his high-def satellite TV if he had to—he really is a gem.
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Uncle Seth from Political Vindication shares some interesting insights about the Kennedy’s, Catholicism, and abortion.
He quotes this from Anne Hendershott in the Wall Street Journal:
Even Ted Kennedy, who gets a 100% pro-choice rating from the abortion-rights group Naral, was at one time pro-life. In fact, in 1971, a full year after New York had legalized abortion, the Massachusetts senator was still championing the rights of the unborn. In a letter to a constituent dated Aug. 3, 1971, he wrote: “When history looks back to this era it should recognize this generation as one which cared about human beings enough to halt the practice of war, to provide a decent living for every family, and to fulfill its responsibility to its children from the very moment of conception.”
I find it very interesting that Teddy was once pro-life, I hadn’t known that. Too bad he changed his stance to align with his party. Now he supports the Freedom of Choice Act. He apparently chose his politics over his faith.
The Freedom of Choice Act is a bill that is currently in the United States Congress. This bill seeks to codify Roe Vs. Wade, and it will remove any and all restrictions that state or local governments have put on abortions before viability. Viability is defined as when the attending physician thinks that there is a reasonable likelihood of the sustained survival of the fetus outside of the woman. This is generally sometime after 22 weeks. The earliest anyone has survived a premature birth around 20 weeks. What this means is that all of the laws on the books that apply to abortion will be wiped away. Things such as parental notification laws, waiting periods, full disclosure of risks associated with abortions, and the Partial Birth Abortion Act will all be nullified.
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