ABORTION
This passionate
article is written by Faith Wanja Ndirango, a high school student at Karinga
Girls Secondary School in Gatundu County in Kenya.
From a biological point of view, life
starts when there is fusion of male and female gamete. Anything deliberately
done to stop the development after the fusion is referred to as abortion. The
innocent foetus struggles and kicks hard in order to live and see what the world
holds for him or her. But mom, dad, girl or boy, why do you have to stop the
developmet of this child? This child could be the next president, or the savior
of your family!
What would you feel if ever your mother
said that she wished she could have aborted you? How would you respond? Many of
us would find it hard to forgive. Why not give this child a chance at living? It
is saddening to see governments trying to legalize this crime. It is no wonder
that our countries will remain poor and with lots of conflicts. The cry for
justice by these innocent children killed in their mothers’ wombs cannot go
unheeded by God.
You may think that as a girl or a woman,
you have the right to do whatever you want with your body but the cries of the
innocent child will haunt you and it will be too late because the child can’t
come back. Would you ever forgive your parents if they dumped you when you were
young only for you to be rescued by a good Samaritan and you later came to meet
them?
Abortion affects both men and women. Men
may seek to deny this but no child comes around without some form of male
cooperation. Men, is it just to engage a woman in a relationship just for sex
without care to what happens to the child conceived? Do you think that the fate
of the child doesn’t affect you? Remember, the God you worship as a man or a
woman who engages in abortion is the same God of the child you kill and He is
not deaf or blind. He shall hear the cries of the child and act justly.
Action and choices have consequences and
consequences are not necessarily a punishment. Choose wisely!
