Abortion

It has always astounded me that abortions are legal and that someone can ignore the fact that the baby's heart beats at 5 weeks and their little systems just snowball from there.  They are people... just teeny weeny ones who are working amazingly hard to grow.  Recently, I've read more and more articles about late term abortions...  my first though was "Those exist?!"  Indeed they do.  Some legally... some not.  The super late term ones that I've read about use an intercardial shot (lethal injection) to stop the baby's heart.  I'm not sure of all the logistics of the other ones but I know they are 2 part procedures.  Apparently, when partial birth abortions were outlawed in 2007, the government was basically like "Ok ok... we can't let the baby come OUT (even if not all the way) and then let you kill it, but we'll compromise.  Just make sure that you dismember the baby before it comes out and we're good."  Really?!  Seriously?!

I read this article today and it's just sad.

http://kellyclinger.com/2012/08/11/we-cant-handle-the-truth-about-abortion/

These people carry their babies for SO long!  Many of them feel the babies move and kick.  The babies LOOK LIKE BABIES.  The "it's an embryo" or "blob of cells"  just does.not.apply.  These are fully formed little people minus a bit of fat and mature lungs.  Seriously?  How is this ok?  If birthed, there is the chance that these babies are far enough along to cry and fight for life.  Within WEEKS they could live outside the womb with intervention.  With the illegal abortions that I read about happening in DC, they will give an abortion to someone who is even 28 weeks pregnant.  That baby is viable!  Are you on crack?  For the life of me, I don't know how that is just kosher.

This baby inside my belly feels HUGE (I'm 23 weeks)! I can push the outside of my belly and feel her little butt and feet.  She's REAL.  There is no denying that that little one is gearing up to meet us in just a few months.  And have you seen my belly?!  Can you imagine me walking into an abortion clinic for my "cells" to be removed.  For real?  ::shakes head::

THEN... the aftermath... that woman will experience milk coming in, bleeding for 4-6 weeks.  You have birthed your child, just like I would in a hospital if I were to have preterm labor (God forbid).  How can you see milk come in and postpartum bleeding happen and still not connect that the being inside of you was a baby?!  Or maybe you do, but the weight of saving your child's life was too great to bear.

Nothing I say will change anything.  I don't even know if stories going viral or abortion pictures circulating will do much.  I think people realize that these are babies being aborted, whether at 5, 13, or 22 weeks.  We aren't ignorant... people know babies are dying.  They are just selfish.  Plain and simple.  Their fears or convenience, their current lifestyle trumps reality.  Really really sad though too.  I'm thankful that all my children are so very loved, from the moment of conception.