How do we spread truth to a generation that rejects absolute truth and touts selective morality? Our society is one whose comeback is more often than not, “well that’s what you think”; one where everyone’s opinion is supposedly valued and valid, so long as it doesn’t condemn or impede upon mine. And rather than admit we have no basis for our moral decision making, we rely on popular opinion and our feelings. No small wonder than that we rationalize over a million abortions a year in the United States. Rationalize the need, craving, and demand to dispose of that little “blob” of life.
I think about the lives disposed of weekly not 10 miles from my house, and then, in hundreds of towns and cities across the nation. As the laws of North Dakota hang in the balance, the war on words, morality, and babies wages on. Among all of the arguments for and against abortion the crux of it all has always been, when does life begin? I remember when I became pregnant with our daughter how my first waves of nausea began less than 2 weeks after conception. Long before I “looked” pregnant, long before my child “looked” like what we would describe a child as resembling, my body was preparing and changing. My child was rapidly growing into different stages from blastocyst to embryo until she was a fetus with organs, arms, eyes and toes forming day by day. And yet, even though her little heart was beating, she had brain waves and DNA separate and distinct from mine, I had every legal right to end her life. Not because we have proved beyond reasonable doubt that life does not begin at conception but simply because as a woman, I have a right to abort my child.
The truth is, pro-abortionists left science behind long ago. Science conflicts with their agenda and message and defies the notion that we do not know when life begins, that abortion helps not hurts women, and that abortion is safe. In reality, just eighteen days after conception the heart is forming and the eyes begin to develop. By twenty-one days the heart is beating and pumping blood through the body. By twenty-eight days the unborn has budding arms and legs. By thirty days she has multiplied in size ten thousand times. She has a brain and blood flows through her veins. As ambiguous as the word ‘fetus’ sounds, she is growing, functioning, and preparing for life outside the womb.
But after decades of fleeing from truth and denying the implications of science, how many of us are ready to admit we have been killing our own children? The bloodstained tide is gradually turning. Abortion numbers have decreased and, according to 40 Days for Life, over 30 abortion facilities have closed and over 80 workers have quit. People are looking for truth, and it is my hope that they will find and stand by it.
When I see a nation readily mourn the death of twenty 6-7 year olds gunned down at Sandy Hook, I have hope that a day will come when we will mourn the 56 million children who have also lost their ability to live, breathe, talk, walk, and wriggle their way into hearts and homes.
Abortion is legal because it eliminates responsibility, not because it is safe, right, or betters mankind. Our nation and state has made its share of bad choices and decisions, it is time to turn our back on promoting the culture of death.
Lydia Trandem
I think about the lives disposed of weekly not 10 miles from my house, and then, in hundreds of towns and cities across the nation. As the laws of North Dakota hang in the balance, the war on words, morality, and babies wages on. Among all of the arguments for and against abortion the crux of it all has always been, when does life begin? I remember when I became pregnant with our daughter how my first waves of nausea began less than 2 weeks after conception. Long before I “looked” pregnant, long before my child “looked” like what we would describe a child as resembling, my body was preparing and changing. My child was rapidly growing into different stages from blastocyst to embryo until she was a fetus with organs, arms, eyes and toes forming day by day. And yet, even though her little heart was beating, she had brain waves and DNA separate and distinct from mine, I had every legal right to end her life. Not because we have proved beyond reasonable doubt that life does not begin at conception but simply because as a woman, I have a right to abort my child.
The truth is, pro-abortionists left science behind long ago. Science conflicts with their agenda and message and defies the notion that we do not know when life begins, that abortion helps not hurts women, and that abortion is safe. In reality, just eighteen days after conception the heart is forming and the eyes begin to develop. By twenty-one days the heart is beating and pumping blood through the body. By twenty-eight days the unborn has budding arms and legs. By thirty days she has multiplied in size ten thousand times. She has a brain and blood flows through her veins. As ambiguous as the word ‘fetus’ sounds, she is growing, functioning, and preparing for life outside the womb.
But after decades of fleeing from truth and denying the implications of science, how many of us are ready to admit we have been killing our own children? The bloodstained tide is gradually turning. Abortion numbers have decreased and, according to 40 Days for Life, over 30 abortion facilities have closed and over 80 workers have quit. People are looking for truth, and it is my hope that they will find and stand by it.
When I see a nation readily mourn the death of twenty 6-7 year olds gunned down at Sandy Hook, I have hope that a day will come when we will mourn the 56 million children who have also lost their ability to live, breathe, talk, walk, and wriggle their way into hearts and homes.
Abortion is legal because it eliminates responsibility, not because it is safe, right, or betters mankind. Our nation and state has made its share of bad choices and decisions, it is time to turn our back on promoting the culture of death.
Lydia Trandem