How on earth can we say that it is better to kill someone before birth than to allow them to be born?

Abortion supporters will always insist that abortion is about a woman's choice.

If you’ve ever talked about abortion with someone who thinks it should be legal, this is the phrase you’ll hear over and over again. That’s why we get the mantra of 'pro-choice' and 'my body, my choice'.

But of course, no-one ever likes to delve deeper into exactly what that ‘choice’ is.

What is the unborn?

If you acknowledge that what is in the womb, what is causing the pregnancy, is indeed a human being - and basic science shows that that is an undeniable fact - then what choice are you making if you have an abortion?

This is why so many abortion supporters will try to deny the existence of the unborn child before birth - as if, at birth, a new person suddenly sprouts into being out of thin air.

However, there are those who take a different approach. Cosmopolitan magazine recently featured this open letter on their website, from a mother who is about to have an abortion.

Little Thing

In it, the unnamed woman writes to the child she has chosen to abort in order to try and justify her decision - her 'choice'.

She calls her child ‘Little Thing’, and says it’s better for her child to be killed before birth than to be born with the risk of growing up disappointed:

Little Thing,

I can feel you in there. I've got twice the appetite and half the energy. It breaks my heart that I don't feel the enchantment that I'm supposed to feel. I am both sorry and not sorry.

I am sorry that this is goodbye. I'm sad that I'll never get to meet you. You could have your father's eyes and my nose and we could make our own traditions, be a family. But, Little Thing, we will meet again. I promise that the next time I see that little blue plus, the next time you are in the same reality as me, I will be ready for you.

Little Thing, I want you to be happy. More than I want good things for myself, I want the best things for the future. That's why I can't be your mother right now. I am still growing myself. It wouldn't be fair to bring a new life into a world where I am still haunted by ghosts of the life I've lived. I want you to have all the things I didn't have when I was a child. I want you to be better than I ever was and more magnificent than I ever could be. I can't do to you what was done to me: Plant a seed made of love and spontaneity into a garden, and hope that it will grow on only dreams. Love and spontaneity are beautiful, but they have little merit. And while I have plenty of dreams to go around, dreams are not an effective enough tool for you to build a better tomorrow. I can't bring you here. Not like this.

I love you, Little Thing, and I wish the circumstances were different. I promise I will see you again, and next time, you can call me Mom.

-h

Euthanasia mindset

Cosmopolitan may think that this supports their radically pro-abortion agenda and shows that "terminating the pregnancy is the right option in her circumstances".

But how on earth can we justify the logic that it is better to kill someone before birth than to allow them to be born, because there is a risk that they might have a less-than-perfect life?

Sadly, while it’s not often so baldly stated, this is the same euthanasia mindset that drives a lot of abortions. It’s the same reason why the law in the UK allows abortion up to birth on children with disabilities, and why 92% of children diagnosed with Down’s syndrome are aborted in the womb.

Every life is worth living

By contrast, the pro-life movement says boldly that every life is worth living - the life in the womb, and all the lives of the most vulnerable, such as the elderly, disabled and terminally ill.

If you agree that every life deserves protection, sign our Lives Worth Living petition now.