The Real Meaning of Choice (sort of OT, but not completely)

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The

Real Meaning of “Choice”

September 14, 2007 on 1:00 pm

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I had an experience recently I will not soon forget. I had a

conversation with a woman with whom I’ve become quite friendly who told

me a fascinating story.

She was adopted. Although she is very close to and loving with her

adoptive family, she was quite interested in knowing something about her birth

mother and father - for medical history reasons (I never quite believe that,

considering the technology available today for diagnoses) and for

curiosity’s sake. She realized and accepted that there would

probably be “the good, the bad, and the ugly” to learn, and she was

right.

She found her birth mother to be an unstable sort with a number of children

from a number of men. The turning point of her life was when she had her

first conversation with her birth father on the phone.

He cried with joy that she had contacted him. He told her that her

birth mother had planned to abort her but he paid money to her and paid for all

the adopting costs to spare her life. Shocked, she told her husband and

children about this revelation, and they were all so grateful for one

man’s commitment to life.

“In listening to all my friends and family telling me what they would

have missed had I never been, I completely changed my position of being

so-called ‘pro-choice,” she told me.

Suddenly there is clarity: a human being who impacts the world in some

unique and meaningful way is obliterated before they have an opportunity to do

their part to perfect the world.

When it ’s YOU who could have been aborted, suddenly the issue

of cavalierly terminating a human life gets put in a bigger perspective than

one woman saying, “I just don’t want ‘it’ - ‘it’

being a human being.

The same day I had this conversation I received this email to my

program:

“You asked a female caller today if she was pro-abortion.

THANK YOU for using that phrase. Who do pro-abortionists think they are

that they can hijack the word ‘choice?’ I LOVE choices, but

I’m against abortion. You and I both know the only valid choice

other than adoption comes before conception,

not after.

Abortion has nothing to do with choices. American women have all

the choices in the world!: the choice to have or not have sex with a man who is

not her husband, the choice to use birth control, and a million choices

therein. Why is it they claim that unless they ALSO have the choice to

kill their unborn babies that they have no choice? Huh? American

women have all the choices they need and have a right to have, regardless of

whether they are also able to suck the unborn babies out of their bodies and down

the drain.

I take back the word ‘choice.’ I won’t let the

pro-abortionists have that word anymore. I’m PRO-CHOICE. I

LOVE choices. But I’m against abortion. And I won’t let

anyone rob me of the word ‘choice’ so that they can use it to

justify killing babies.” — , St. Louis.

http://www.drlaurablog.com/2007/09/14/the-real-meaning-of-choice/#more-52