Dear Reader,
Somebody asked about why I started this poll, one of the first replies. Sorry I haven’t been here for sometime, but my computer has been down, and I was trying to deal with a personal problem.
I am thirty-five yrs. old. My ex-fiance after I graduated from high school chose an abortion. I was in the hospital with her, and with her parents. I could not stop it, but I tried. It was a long time ago.
I opened up the thread, because I have done some work as a volunteer at a message board for The Center for Bioethical Reform, and I stopped going there; though, I support their campaign to show aborted fetuses, abortuses as they are legally named.
I wanted to bring up the topic to bring back the humanity of not only the unborn, but also of people like myself, and of the women who choose abortion.
For all the words we theologicly use to base our arguements like “murder” and whatever else, I thought that hearing stories; sharing something about it might in some small way “help”.
I don’t know what else I hoped to accomplish, but I am sure glad to see quite a few people have replied, or simply viewed this post. It gives me some comfort that people are reading, and participating in the poll.
It galls me that we as Christians not necessarily Catholic, but whatever–it galls me a bit that we give much attention to many issues that fill many churches, and abortion persists. In some churches, you can set-up a speaker from a foreign country that will tell you–save your own country. Then there is a well-versed in the topic speaker about abortion, say Scott Klusendorf, and he draws in maybe twenty people. It is ok, I mean: I am happy that many show up; nonetheless, I would like to see throngs of people opposing this like a million man march, or something that would be really great.
I’m never satisfied, and sometimes belligerant about this.
Sincerely,
Kristopher
