The Right to Choose...and It's Consequences

Today, Fox News has a story that should illustrate, once and for all, that the "right to choose" is exactly as it sounds....the right to choose whether a woman will consider her baby a lump of inanimate tissue and abort it, or whether that woman will choose to see her baby as a human being.

18-year-old Sycloria Williams made the choice to abort her baby after it became obvious to her that she could not afford a baby or care for a child. When she went to the Florida abortion clinic, an ultrasound showed that Williams was 23 weeks pregnant. She was far enough along in the pregnancy (more than half-way) to easily see and feel the baby kicking, to hear a strong heartbeat and for the baby to have a chance at life outside the womb. (24 weeks is considered viability, but babies have survived when born earlier and given the proper care.) Still, she chose to kill the baby because it was inconvenient at that time in her life.

Williams was given medication to begin the abortion process and then, when she returned, she was given more. Before the abortionist arrived to kill the baby, Williams delivered a live baby girl. Since the abortion provider was still not there, an unlicensed clinic owner cut the umbilical cord and stuffed the living, breathing baby in a plastic biohazard bag and threw her out in the trash. She took a live human being, with a very real chance at life, and carelessly threw the baby away to suffocate and die.

Williams, who realized that she had not delivered a blob of tissue, but a live human baby, became upset and is now suing the abortion clinic for killing her baby. She is suing someone else for doing what she willingly asked them to do. She wanted to get rid of the baby. She intended to kill it. The abortion clinic did exactly that, but what no one ever really told Ms. Williams was that she was carrying a real live baby that looked like a baby and when confronted with the plain truth, she was horrified by what was being done. She was horrified by what she had done.

An autopsy has proven that the baby's lungs were filled with air, so she was born alive. She had a real chance at life and then was mercilessly and inhumanely murdered and thrown out like garbage.

The Fox News story states that advocates on both sides of the issue (pro-life and pro-choice) are outraged by this story. I contend that the pro-choice people have absolutely no say and no reason to be upset. A young woman wanted to kill her child. She did not want to have the baby. The abortion clinic killed the baby. They got rid of the problem. So why should pro-choice advocates care or be concerned? Mission accomplished. If what was aborted was simply a blob of tissue, then who cares if it was stuffed in a bag and thrown out in the garbage? And why should this law suit even be allowed to go forward? What did the abortion clinic do that Ms. Williams should be upset about? After all, they only did what she chose and asked them to do. Was it pretty? Absolutely not. Was it effective? 100%

I have a feeling 18 year old Williams will never ever be the same...and perhaps, at the cost of a tiny precious human life, her eyes will opened to the truth and her heart will be forever changed.

How incredibly sad.