My Plea to the Pro-Life Movement

Ok, I just have to put this out there.  Lately, I have seen an unusual amount of anti abortion post on facebook that show heart wrenching pictures of the no-longer living fetus.  People comment back and forth to one another about how it is important to show these images to make a point, and if a person who is pro-choice feels upset by these then maybe, they should not be pro-choice ect. 

I am coming to you not as a pro-choicer, nor as a pro-lifer, but as a mother who has lost a baby not by any choice at all.  A mother whose baby left the womb far too soon.  A mother who carries that loss with her daily.  A mother who over the years has not moved on, but learned to live differently than I once did before my loss.  These pictures bring sadness to my heart that I do not need to welcome.  An unnecessary sadness.  I never saw my unborn child, and that is good.  I can imagine him/her as beautiful and wonderful as this brings me peace. I do not need to see babies at the same gestational age as my little angel depicted in these horrific bloody, sad pictures.  No.  I do not.  I need to imagine my dear one as small, not ready for this world, and cradled in the arms of God.

I would not like this post to be used as an open forum for pro-life or pro-choice debates.  Nor, will I even use it to share my opinion with you.  What I will share is that this world is harsh.  It is full of sadness we cannot understand, and circumstances that seem unreal.  I do not believe we have been put on this earth to shame or guilt one another.  I believe we have been put on this earth to love, support, comfort, grieve, and share in joy with one another.  Whatever your ministry may be, I guarantee the only way to truly share it, is to first seek love, compassion and understanding.  These, will be what changes the world.  

Choose Love.