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l they cannot provide needed love and support.</li><li>There is a health issue. The baby may be born and live only a short time, in pain, or may suffer from a hereditary disease.</li><li>There is no family ready and willing to provide support.</li></ul>With a few exceptions for the tragically selfish, this is the complete list of reasons for abortions. If you don’t necessarily think that abortion is terrible, you have to admit these are good reasons for having one: A child who is inadequately fed, clothed, housed, and cared for — and may live in pain and without love — is very likely to suffer from physical difficulties, mental illness, and significant deprivation. Not something most parents want for their children.Ann, 9 years old, has grown up in a household with three younger brothers and sisters. They’re all food insecure (what a euphemism we’ve come up with for “hungry”). When Ann’s had a full tummy, it’s been mostly cheap, unhealthy food. She’s in the third grade, but you couldn’t tell that since she’s so tiny. She speaks only when spoken to and hasn’t yet begun to read.Ann’s mother thinks that abortion is wrong.<a href="https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/child-hunger-facts">There are 9 million children facing hunger in the U.S. today</a>. How many more hungry children do you want to “save” by outlawing abortion?Jeremy’s just 6, in first grade. His mother has borderline personality disorder and has subjected him to extreme cycles of care and neglect his whole life. His father joined AA recently, but Jeremy’s mostly seen him drunk and abusive. What he’s heard most often from his father is, “I never wanted you.”Jeremy has begun hitting other children, has terrible nightmares, and wets his bed. There’s nobody outside the family to take him in. He’s on a road that may lead to prison or a mental institution.Je

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remy’s mother is a March for Life member who wants to ban abortion.<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00728/full#:~:text=These%20children%20are%20at%20high,developing%20a%20severe%20mental%20illness.">Half of all children of parents with severe mental illnesses develop their own mental illnesses. For a third of them, the illnesses are debilitating</a>.You might ask if saving an unborn baby is a good thing if so many unwanted children have lives full of deprivation and unhappiness. Good question. You might also ask …<h2 id="10f6">Are you actually saving a life by banning abortion?</h2>You say abortion is murdering an unborn baby. But I say maybe the murder of a collection of cells that has not yet experienced life is better than consigning a life to the likelihood of physical difficulties, mental illness, pain, and loneliness.I also say maybe the terminology is wrong. Maybe “murdering” an unborn baby should be rephrased as “saving” that unborn baby.What?We’re going to get into a bit of philosophy here:Neither Ann nor Jeremy needed to be born to a family in dire circumstances. Had they been released from life while unborn— via abortion — could these two souls have been born at different times, to different families, into better circumstances?I realize that expecting a soul to transfer from one woman’s body to another is expecting a lot from a soul. But I think most people do believe that souls exist, that they exist independently of bodies, and that a separation of body and soul occurs when the body dies. So when that unborn baby dies, isn’t the soul released?As I imagine it, the soul not so much searches for but nonetheless finds another woman’s body and becomes another woman’s baby — a baby born into a world full of love and opportunity.</article></body>

Murdering (or Saving) Unborn Babies

Abortion reconsidered

You want to save lives, and you believe that abortion is “murdering an unborn baby.” For the sake of discussion, I’ll temporarily accept your definition of abortion. But I do have some questions:

Is it only the unborn you want to save?

Or do you also care about the living — babies, their parents, and everyone in your community? If you do care about the living, how do you show this? Have you shared a meal with the family occupying that rusty RV a couple of blocks from your house? Bought a raincoat for a little girl you’ve seen getting soaked walking to school? Donated to an organization that cares for refugees and war victims? Delivered meals-on-wheels? If you’ve done any of these things, good for you.

Good for you also if you’ve been out marching with an “I am Pro-Life” sign. You have the right to do this since you’re also helping the living. You won’t be surprised when the unborn beneficiaries of your right-to-life protests are born, grow up, and have needs that may have to be met by good people like you.

Do you know what may happen to an unborn baby you save?

Women have abortions for various reasons:

They cannot afford to feed, clothe, house, and care for a child.
They already have children and cannot afford to feed, clothe, house, and care for another.
They feel they cannot provide the love and support a child needs.
Because of mental-health issues or addictions, they feel they cannot provide needed love and support.
There is a health issue. The baby may be born and live only a short time, in pain, or may suffer from a hereditary disease.
There is no family ready and willing to provide support.

With a few exceptions for the tragically selfish, this is the complete list of reasons for abortions. If you don’t necessarily think that abortion is terrible, you have to admit these are good reasons for having one: A child who is inadequately fed, clothed, housed, and cared for — and may live in pain and without love — is very likely to suffer from physical difficulties, mental illness, and significant deprivation. Not something most parents want for their children.

Ann, 9 years old, has grown up in a household with three younger brothers and sisters. They’re all food insecure (what a euphemism we’ve come up with for “hungry”). When Ann’s had a full tummy, it’s been mostly cheap, unhealthy food. She’s in the third grade, but you couldn’t tell that since she’s so tiny. She speaks only when spoken to and hasn’t yet begun to read.

Ann’s mother thinks that abortion is wrong.

There are 9 million children facing hunger in the U.S. today. How many more hungry children do you want to “save” by outlawing abortion?

Jeremy’s just 6, in first grade. His mother has borderline personality disorder and has subjected him to extreme cycles of care and neglect his whole life. His father joined AA recently, but Jeremy’s mostly seen him drunk and abusive. What he’s heard most often from his father is, “I never wanted you.”

Jeremy has begun hitting other children, has terrible nightmares, and wets his bed. There’s nobody outside the family to take him in. He’s on a road that may lead to prison or a mental institution.

Jeremy’s mother is a March for Life member who wants to ban abortion.

Half of all children of parents with severe mental illnesses develop their own mental illnesses. For a third of them, the illnesses are debilitating.

You might ask if saving an unborn baby is a good thing if so many unwanted children have lives full of deprivation and unhappiness. Good question. You might also ask …

Are you actually saving a life by banning abortion?

You say abortion is murdering an unborn baby. But I say maybe the murder of a collection of cells that has not yet experienced life is better than consigning a life to the likelihood of physical difficulties, mental illness, pain, and loneliness.

I also say maybe the terminology is wrong. Maybe “murdering” an unborn baby should be rephrased as “saving” that unborn baby.

What?

We’re going to get into a bit of philosophy here:

Neither Ann nor Jeremy needed to be born to a family in dire circumstances. Had they been released from life while unborn— via abortion — could these two souls have been born at different times, to different families, into better circumstances?

I realize that expecting a soul to transfer from one woman’s body to another is expecting a lot from a soul. But I think most people do believe that souls exist, that they exist independently of bodies, and that a separation of body and soul occurs when the body dies. So when that unborn baby dies, isn’t the soul released?

As I imagine it, the soul not so much searches for but nonetheless finds another woman’s body and becomes another woman’s baby — a baby born into a world full of love and opportunity.