Yesterday was a hard day. It was hard because last night, a special aired on MTV called “No Easy Decision”, a spin off of “16 & Pregnant” that  followed a young woman through her decision to have an abortion. (They also interviewed two other women who had chosen abortion) While it was especially hard to watch a young women decide that in order to give her toddler a chance at a better life, her second child would have to die, it was even harder to watch the suffering she went through labeled as “normal”.

I don’t disagree that the suffering she went through while making this decision was normal. I think any woman who is faced with an unplanned pregnancy and makes this choice goes through painful experiences. The consultations, the visits, the abortion itself, and the after effects. I would say that’s painful. What was hard was watching all of that being labeled as normal, and therefore okay. In an interview with a doctor on the show, he dismissed this girl’s feelings because most women who have had an abortion feel the same things. Where is the counseling this girl needed? Where is the sympathy? My point is, while this may be normal, what is our world coming to when something so awful is normal, and we’re okay with it. In fact, it’s encouraged. That’s sick. We are encouraging the suffering of others, and we are endorsing murder of innocent children.

While this show was a shock to most pro-life people watching, I would venture to say it could have been a good thing. There were some bad things that I wish had been different: the reference to the human being as a “pregnancy tissue” and “product of conception”, the lack of care for the people, and the misrepresentation of life facts. But here is what was good: it wasn’t easy. It didn’t look easy. The girls who talked about their abortions were torn up about it. They showed America that this is not perfectly fine with nothing to worry about. They showed America that having an abortion is not easy, no matter how hard you try to make it seem easy. They showed that they knew their babies were living human beings, with the things that they said and the tears they shed. That is a win, people.

A big fat win. Abortion isn’t easy. It isn’t safe, it isn’t a breeze, and it is no easy decision.

— I would also like to reiterate that while I admit that we have the choice to abortion in this country, that does not make it right. Everyone has choices, but there are good choices, bad choices, and choices that land you in prison, like murder. That person had the “choice” to murder another person, but that doesn’t make it right.

 

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