This is to all those people who think an abortion is done for “convenience“ and that it’s ok to force a woman to undergo a pregnancy when she doesn’t want it.
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The risk of health issues is real, and all the more in our inadequate American diet. The risk of surgical intervention is real, and the risk of complications once a surgeon starts cutting on the body is also real (and thankfully rare). Women should take all of this into consideration before planning a pregnancy, since this is the first big opportunity to either set that child up for an effective life or place the first huge hurdle in the way of that life. The responsibility for that child's life starts before conception, and the ability to birth a person made in the image of God is not something to be taken lightly by anyone with their brain cells working. Still, many people don't consider that when they are intentionally or unintentionally making new humans.
From my work history I feel I can say that the lack of foresight created the situation where women chose abortion in most of the abortion cases I knew. In some cases, abortion was offered where there was concerning fetal testing, but even where the prenatal testing predicted dire results, I've known of cases that were not nearly as dire as predicted. One case that touched my heart was a woman who delivered a child who only lived 11 days. When she told me the story, I knew that she would never have considered cutting that child's life short for her own convenience by a preterm delivery, certainly not something as awful as cutting up the child inside her body. As her situation played out, she went through it with no regret in any of her actions, even in grieving the loss of her firstborn. She birthed, she held the baby, she tried all she could to encourage the child to live until she became aware that it just wasn't to be. In my mind, when someone who chose as she did faces questions, her mind will remind her that she did all she could. For the woman who chose the abortion, my concern is that she will always face the "what if?" - what if the child had been less dire, even normal? And since this is a Christian forum, we need to consider that for the Christian woman, the Scripture is clear that in love we lay down our lives for our beloved. As Brightmoon pointed out, women do this with every pregnancy. In cases of rape or assault, my prayer would be that this victimized woman have someone to help her through the situation. Even in an anticipated and normal pregnancy with a strong, healthy woman, I'm not a fan of any woman having to take on the changes and vulnerability of pregnancy alone.
I appreciate the list of difficulties that Brightmoon shared, but one must also consider that abortions put the woman's body through much, if not all, the same risk. The way I see it, once pregnant, there is no easy resolution. I could share about botched abortions and mishandled deliveries - suffice it to know that these also exist.
God arranged for the protection of women in the Scriptures. Living the way He says would keep most of us from experiencing an unwanted pregnancy. Even if the pregnancy is unwanted or unintended, of all the people involved it's not the child's fault, so the child shouldn't have to be punished with the death penalty for it. For those who decide not to walk that careful path, forethought and preventive measures (keep oneself safe, don't trust strangers, guard your drink, don't get so high that you can't watch out for yourself, use a barrier and spermicide if you do choose to have sex but think it through and realize what that risk is really costing you before you are in the situation) could keep any woman from facing an unwanted or inconvenient pregnancy. That would take care of more than 90% of the abortions performed since Roe vs. Wade. I can only imagine that most of those 54 million would have been nice people had we met them.
