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The 2013 Grammy Awards Celebration was full of talented musicians, outrageously expensive dresses, and Hollywood glam. Though I\u00a0wasn’t\u00a0a fan of all the performances, I found some endearing. Country singer Hunter Hayes sang lyrics from his hit single, \u201cWanted.\u201d What’s not to\u00a0like about a chorus that says, “I want to make you feel wanted\u201d? The words speak to one of our deepest core needs as humans.<\/p>\n

\"ultrasound\"Many in the pro-choice community echo the phrase<\/a> \u201cevery child should be a wanted child.\u201d Upon first hearing the mantra, most would agree with it. Decent people desire all children to be wanted, albeit we live in a world in which that\u2019s not always possible. However, the \u201cevery child should be a wanted child\u201d motto\u00a0isn’t\u00a0a happy wish for a world where all children are equally loved. It\u2019s a statement declaring that if unborn children are unwanted by their parents, it\u2019s acceptable for them to be terminated.<\/p>\n

Part of the fear of \u201cunwanted\u201d children is the belief that they may face neglect and abuse. People understandably worry about more hurting children in the world. However, eliminating potentially hurting children by killing them is by no means a great solution.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also the idea that neglect can turn kids into delinquent, rebellious individuals who place a drain on society. That belief is problematic because we can\u2019t entirely predict the unknown. Studies and statistics tell us something, but not everything. Some pregnant women don\u2019t initially want their children but grow into wonderful mothers. Other moms give birth without complaint but end up abusing their children later in life. Poor minorities can become business leaders, and wealthy kids may be crack addicts one day.<\/p>\n

Regardless of what type of person the child will become, a better question is “do we think a growing human deserves protection?” Children are not designer shoes, after all. It\u2019s okay to say I can\u2019t afford these Manolo Blahniks, so I\u2019ll pass. Or I really want these new Louboutins, so I\u2019ll sacrifice to have them. When it comes to children, shouldn’t we be looking past our personal wants and desires?<\/p>\n

I read through the comment section on a Jezebel article<\/a> titled “What’s the best age to have an abortion?” I was saddened by women who glibly declared that they got pregnant but for whatever reasons\u00a0didn’t\u00a0want the child and aborted. They\u00a0didn’t\u00a0regret it, and some were proud of their decision. Perhaps they felt that if they\u00a0didn’t\u00a0want the child, why should they feel bad about terminating it’s life?<\/p>\n

Even though I was scheduled to be aborted, my mother told me she really did want me. That\u2019s likely why she was able to leave the hospital at the last minute. What if she\u00a0hadn’t\u00a0wanted me? Would that have justified taking my life? Should a parent’s personal desire influence the protection children should rightfully be afforded in the womb? Children are more than parasites living off hosts. There is a dignity to human life that deserves respect.<\/p>\n

The children in the Newtown shootings huddled close to their teachers and cried because they\u00a0didn’t\u00a0want to die. There\u2019s a reason why third-trimester babies flinch<\/a> when an abortionist’s forceps come close.<\/p>\n

People argue the tired rhetoric of \u201cmy body, my choice.\u201d Yet we have laws that prohibit what we can do to our body. Even if I want to (which I don\u2019t), I can\u2019t legally prostitute my body in the U.S. I can\u2019t even legally order contact lenses without a\u00a0prescription\u00a0from a yearly doctor\u2019s exam. The government and health care professionals are so concerned about the health of my eyes that they’ve\u00a0enacted laws<\/a> that keep me from damaging them. Yet no such laws protect me from dismembering a growing fetus in my womb and potentially endangering myself. This is lunacy at best.<\/p>\n

Some people abort a child now to have another child with the \u201cright one\u201d later. Some abort one twin and keep another. Millions abort girls because they want a boy, while others abort babies with cleft palates. Some people have five abortions because they can\u2019t find a birth control plan that works. Is this the so-called \u201cfreedom” of choice?<\/p>\n

Abortion is morally wrong, whether we admit it or not. Just because we want to do something, that doesn’t mean it’s right or good. On the other hand, there are things we may not want to do but should.\u00a0Responsibility\u00a0and love beckon us to know the difference and act accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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