Soccer Mom: Unplugged

For so long now, the radical pro-choice forces in America have described anyone pro-life as a right wing nutcase.  They want you to believe that anyone who opposes state sanctioned abortion (and the expenditure of our tax dollars for it) is a person who would kill doctors and blow up clinics.  This idea is completely false. 

True there is a mentally ill right fringe.  There is also a left fringe that may (or may not) benefit from electro-shock therapy.  Some on that end will kill humans to protect trees and chickens.  Either way killing to enforce your ideology is WRONG.

The simple truth of the matter is that most moral conservatives object to ELECTIVE abortions.  Our objection is not with rape victims, victims of incest, mothers whose lives are endangered by childbirth.  The problem we see is in condoning (and paying for) abortions for people who were just too lazy or stupid to purchase a condom. 

YOUR failure to plan does not constitute MY emergency. 

I understand that many pro-choice activists spout false concern for the unborn by proposing that it is better to abort an unwanted fetus (or blastocyst - if you catch it early enough) than to bring a child into the world who would be unwanted and probably uncared for.  Aside from the very viable option of adoption, there is the simple truth that any mother can tell you.  Many pregnancies that are unwanted at first, produce beautiful children that you can't help but love from the minute their little legs kick inside your womb.  In fact, that maternal instinct that NARAL would deny the existence of, kicks in so often that by month nine and after hours of labor, many young women who planned to give up those "unwanted" children find themselves struggling to follow through with that decision.

Due to complications with my pregnancies, I was fortunate to become very well acquainted with a wonderful ultrasound tech in the military hospital where two of my sons were born.  She confided during one of my many visits that most of the women who came in for "dating" (to find out exact gestational age of the fetus) were young african american soldiers who wanted abortions.  She also told me that most came in regularly and that she had seen one patient 7 times.  (Now to give you an idea - the Army moves people roughly every 3 years so that's 7 times in 3 years.)  They were simply put, using the abortion procedure as a form of tax sponsored birth control. (What's really sad is that the military hospital prescribes condoms, the pill, almost any birth control - to include IUDs for FREE!)

THIS IS WHAT WE ARE OPPOSED TO!   Elective abortions. 

The truth is I believe free-will is one of the most undeniable of human rights.  I am fiercely pro-choice.  But I believe the choice is made BEFORE you have sex not AFTER.