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July 24, 2008
Coming out from under my rock
Maybe you all know about this - maybe I've been self absorbed, or just live under a rock, but apparently Chattanooga is getting a new abortion clinic. We've long prided ourselves on being the largest city in the country without one.
I know abortions are going to happen whether we have a clinic here or not. The 2 hour drive to Knoxville isn't going to stop anyone who is determined, but this saddens me.
According to the vote on WRCB's website, 74% of us are against this. Seems there should be some way of letting the majority rule and stop it. I've never been very political and I certainly would never consider myself an activist, but if I knew how, I would certainly get involved in this.
| By Wifeepoo | 7:52 PM
Comments
i really hope this doesn't happen....
Posted by: erin at July 24, 2008 10:04 PM
Just to note, just because 74% of the people who went to that website disagree with it doesn't mean that 74% of the general population does. Online surveys generally are not that accurate. MSNBC's website often has surveys, and you can go here to read about it a little more.
You already know my stance on abortion, as we've argued about it on numerous occasions. Having one in town isn't really going to change anything for most people, and will only impact those who've already gone through the torturous decision of whether or not to have the abortion and decided that it was their best option.
Posted by: Meighan at July 26, 2008 11:41 PM
Well, I don't live in Chattanooga anymore, but I have to say that I would be very displeased to see something like that come into town.
In my younger (and more naive) days, I was pro-choice. As I got older, more life experience, and hopefully a little wiser, I am most definitely pro-life, and proud of it. I don't know how anyone can consider that anyway, but having two children, lost one, and pregnant again, it is absolutely beyond my comprehension how anyone who has carried a precious child for 9 months could ever consider a baby to be a "choice." Whatever circumstances that child was conceived under, that baby had no choice. For whatever reason, God decided that baby should exist, and far be it from me to argue with God!
The biggest thing that changed my mind was meeting one of these precious children. A family in my church were foster parents, and for a time had a baby that was the product of a rape. She was bi-racial, and the victim of this vicious rape decided to carry this baby to term and give her up for adoption. It must have been horrible to have that 9 month reminder of the trauma that she went through, but that baby was one of the happiest, sweetest children I had ever seen at the time. She brought so much joy to everyone who met her. She would be in her 20's now, and I often wonder what she went on to do. I have a tremendous amount of respect for the woman who chose to let that child live rather than condemn her to death for an act that wasn't at all her fault.
Abortion has lasting effects on the women who have them. Let's hope Chattanooga wises up and continues to make that "choice" a little less convenient.
Posted by: Tracy at July 29, 2008 3:50 PM
