Life Choices

I am not sure where this post will lead in the end, so we will just have to see.

Much has been said this week on Christian radio programs about the anniversary of Roe Vs Wade. I am not sure of the secular media coverage, because I have avoided it lately like a plague. Tired of the never ending election coverage. Anyway, I must admit that Roe was decided when I knew very little, if anything, about what an abortion was. I was only a senior in high school and nothing like that was ever talked about around our house. It was always assumed if you "fathered" a child then you had a responsibility ahead of you. All other plans, were now changed with this possibility in focus. You made a choice, life changed, and you had to change.

Today, one of the hardest things for me to grasp is married couples electing to abort their babies. "In love couples" choosing to eliminate the results of their shared love. "The pregnancy was not planned", one of the most used excuses I have heard over the years. "We weren't ready for children", another popular excuse. I think a car wreck is unexpected and I sure would not be ready for it to occur, but I believe if I lived through it I would have to deal with the results.

Some are afraid that their baby will be handicapped in some way. Maybe so, it sure happened to my wife and I. We have a nearly 31 year old special needs adult. I won't say it has been peaches and cream because it hasn't and it isn't. But his is a life that touches people he is around and with him everyone is special. Four years later we had a second child, unplanned I might add. We were concerned about the possibilities we may have yet another special needs child. Had she not been born, we would have missed watching her grow into a terrific young adult and after marrying the love of her life giving us our precious grandson.

While watching the biography channel one evening, they were telling of the worst serial killer in US history. I am not sure who he was and don't really care, but I wonder if the distinction is accurate. It seems to me, since I consider conception the beginning of life, that abortionist are the worst serial killers. They seem to take the lives of the unborn without conscience, just like any murderer in any city, yet there are laws that protect them, if not encourage them to do so.

At my age, my life is over half spent. I didn't accomplish enough to be famous and have the paparazzi chasing after me, but my two children will be the legacy that I will leave behind. Their lives will be the testament that I lived. They will tell the story of what my life was to the children that follow. What will be the testimony of your life? Will there be anyone following you that will tell your story to generations to follow?

Most would be devastated by taking the life of another through accident or self defense. Our guilt would be overwhelming even though we could not help it. Even though we had no choice. So how do you live life when making the well thought out decision to destroy it. Choosing to eliminate the unborn life you have chosen to create through action.

Life is full of choices. Will you make the right ones?