Letter to the Editor: What is really means to be “pro-choice”
Published 11:00 am Tuesday, December 12, 2023
The Courier-Herald touted four girls from Bellevue who designed an “…award-winning app to help out-of-state abortion patients” in the Sept. 6 edition (“Girls design award-winning app to help out-of-state abortion parents”).
My first thought when seeing this was, “It seems a stretch to consider this local news”.
Next I thought, perhaps this paper is more pro-abortion than I realized.
It saddened me to find the girls who were happy to have an “opportunity to help others” were completely desensitized to the reality that what the were assisting an expectant mother to do was to end an innocent human life. It further grieved me to read that the girls involved were only 12 to 14 years of age. They’ve seemingly already come to believe that the lives of children developing within their mothers are totally worthless.
But the thing that I found completely irreconcilable with what I think they sincerely believe to be, “…the right thing to do”, as stated by 14 year old Isabel Xu, is that there app carefully restricts the information made available to women considering an abortion.
The app does not share information about “’…crisis pregnancy centers,’ which…’aim to dissuade people from…abortion’”, among other things.
If these young ladies were truly pro-choice, as I’m sure they consider themselves, then I would hope that they would be willing to share information with women regarding organizations that are willing to provide help for unplanned pregnancies in the form of disposable diapers, formula and baby food, baby clothes and financial assistance for housing, etc. Why does the abortion industry insist that the only “choice”, is to terminate the pregnancy, which may be something they feel forced into doing because they are unaware of the resources I’ve outlined above?
Of course the answer to that question could be that abortionists might find their profits diminished.
What has prompted me to write this response nearly 2 months after it was published? A story I heard on the news of an expecting Israeli mother who was sliced open to expose the baby she was carrying, still connected by its umbilical cord, before the mother was shot.
Yes, I’m pro-life and believe every innocent life should be protected, just like the ones slaughtered by Hamas.
But I am also pro-choice to the extent that as long as abortion is legal, women considering it should be given every fact about what the child will experience during the abortion, as well as resources that would help them make a more informed decision.
Mark Akers
Enucmlaw
