I feel like...

 at that time when I was pregnant it seemed like it was the WORST thing in the world, being pregnant. I was ashamed of what people might think (which was backwards since I should've been worried about what they'd think about my having sex at thirteen). I thought that the sex was the innocent act and the pregnancy was the crime.  In reality, my own choices (the crime) brought about a new life (innocence).

I know that there are people out there who are unable to have children and who would do anything to adopt a child. In many adoption cases, they pay for all expenses (pre-natal care and the delivery itself) in order for the mother, teenaged or not, to go through with the birth and then give it a wonderful home. I also know that I now have a man who TRULY loves me and that if I had done the responsible thing (in reaction to my not-so-responsible actions), I would have a kid right now who Eric would accept completely because he loves me and everything about me. He tells me that it wouldn't have mattered.  Granted other men wouldn't see it this way, but then those aren't the kind of men I would want to marry!

I resent my mother for not having taken care of HER baby, since I truly was so young and desperately in need of wisdom and direction. I see now that her advice was strictly all about her and her not wanting to have to deal with any of it.
 

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