Est.

I am prolife, but I wasn't always.  When I was younger, I thought if something was legal, it must be good, and if something was illegal, it must be bad.  I thought laws set the standard for right and wrong--and they should--but sometimes they don't.  I had a good friend who was very popular, pretty, and full of life.  She was so in love with her boyfriend, and he was one of the popular boys.  She became pregnant, and he wanted her to get an abortion.  It was something they agreed to do, but once it was over, things began to change.  My friend became troubled, unhappy, and I didn't know why.  After a while, my friend and her boyfriend broke up.  She never really talked to me about her experience, and she wouldn't tell my why she was so unhappy.  About a year later, she told me, "Today my baby would have been a year old."  It was the first time I realized what had caused the change in her.  Eventually, my friend moved away.  A few years later, her ex-boyfriend got someone else pregnant, but that baby was born.  I remember seeing him driving around town with his little boy, and I felt angry that my friend's baby was gone while he embraced fatherhood with someone else.  But, I also wondered if maybe he regretted it and chose not to do it again.  It certainly made me realize that right and wrong are not always as simple as legal and illegal, and that making a choice to do something that promises a quick fix can actually cause even more heartache and pain.  I realized abortion was a mistake, a choice you can't undo.  I began to realize that life is a sacred gift, even when unexpected or difficult things happen.

- Jen