{"id":293910,"date":"2023-07-01T08:43:44","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T13:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=293910"},"modified":"2023-06-29T15:14:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T20:14:08","slug":"never-thought-roe-wade-why-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/never-thought-roe-wade-why-now\/","title":{"rendered":"I never thought much about Roe v. Wade, and never asked myself why – until now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this guest post are solely those of the author.<\/i><\/p>\n

If I\u2019m honest, growing up I never gave much thought to Roe v Wade<\/em>. I knew of it, but no one around me ever spoke of it. I never questioned it. It just was.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sadly, by my 20\u2019s, all I knew was that it allowed me the right to \u201cterminate my pregnancy.\u201d I exercised that right, but still didn\u2019t give it much thought.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By my 30\u2019s the trauma and pain I was still suffering from surrounding my abortion gave me plenty of opportunities to think about that fateful precedent. I questioned the circumstances surrounding the case, but even more so I pondered the why<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n

What about us as people has made us believe that ending the life of our unborn offspring is just or even necessary? Where were our hearts as a country on that fateful day in 1973? When a previously unknown Norma McCorvey became the face of women\u2019s empowerment through her newly legal \u201cright to choose,\u201d was there no pause as to the future implications? Could they even conceive of the 63 million babies’ lives that would be ended and the mothers and fathers left to silently grieve an unrecognized loss?<\/span><\/p>\n