Abortion

In my heart of hearts I am a peacemaker. I do everything in my power to help people get along (for the most part) and struggle immensely with being a Pollyanna. It's an annoying habit I have.

In light of this, it has been difficult to remain neutral lately about the opening of a Planned Parenthood clinic down the street from my house. For one thing, I find that people have very definite opinions about its appearance.

So as to not fall within the right-wing-religious-no-critical-thinking camp, I visited the Planned Parenthood website. I wanted to hear their side of the story. I agree with their desire to help those less able to access affordable health care and to help young women. In fact, the overall health of women is extremely important to me.

I think that is the only sentiment I share with Planned Parenthood, however. From there our paths diverged mostly on their approach to helping. Much of the site is dedicated to family "unplanning" (a coin termed by my husband). I have to agree with his choice of words. The cavalier way they treat pregnancies is very upsetting to me.

In the past, I could hide a little more in the shadows on this issue of abortion. I thought it was sad and unfortunate and a little overwhelming of a subject to tackle. I kept quiet.

But for obvious reasons, I've changed. Forgive my bluntness, but why on God's green earth are there people who are terminating their pregnancies for convenience sake when others so deeply desire to nurture a little one?

For the sake of my unborn babies, I must take this stand: abortion is wrong. And those who solicit abortion to others are also in the wrong.