Well, the memorial of Roe v Wade has
passed and I have taken some time to collect and integrate my
thoughts after hearing so many more talks and reading so many more
articles than usual.
One of the articles that impacted me
most was realizing that both women who fought hard to legalize
abortion (Norma McCorvey "Jane Roe" of Roe v Wade and
Sandra Cano "Jane Doe" of Doe v Bolton) no longer support
abortion and wish these decisions were revoked.
The Doe v Bolton case made abortion
legal up to nine months, at the discretion of the states. However,
Sandra Cano said she was forced to sign an affidavit agreeing to an
abortion she didn't want to have and even tried to flee the state to
prevent abortion. The irony of this situation is that one of the most
famous "victories" for the pro-choice movement didn't
involve a choice at all.
“No one should have a right to kill
their children. No mother should ever want to do so,” she said,
describing her case as a “covenant with death.” -Sandra Cano
(Jane Doe)
Norma McCorvey "Jane Roe" was
a pro-choice activist who worked at abortion clinics. Once, she was
on her cigarette break and struck up a conversation with an
"operation rescue" preacher and in time was converted,
baptized and became a pro-life activist.
Over the past forty years, the two
women who sparked the landmark pro-abortion legislation have both re-thought it and had a dramatic change of heart.
It's not
impossible to hope that our country won't be too far behind.
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