On Life, 37 Years after ‘Roe’
January 23, 2010 by Kristina Bjorkman
Filed under Culture
Friday was the 37th anniversay of the Supreme Court decision Roe Versus Wade, legalizing abortion in the United States.
My family has been involved in the prolife movement for as long as I can remember. Our family photo albums, and my own memories, include images of 4, 5 6, and 7 year old me standing on the steps of the capitol building with an “abortion kills children” sign. Marches for Life, Walks for Life, are woven in and out of my growing up years.
Today marks the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion across the United States. Since then, more than 50 million abortion have been performed throughout the country. 50 million.
Today I changed my facebook status to say I was mourning for the 50 million lives lost.
Today, I changed my profile picture to words that said “I survived Roe v. Wade, but 50 million of my friend’s didn’t.”
Today, I wore black, with a tiny gold lapel pin in the shape of baby footprints.
I didn’t go to the capitol. I went to work.
When I first got to work, I checked facebook before launching into work mode (for the record, I am only on facebook once when I first arrive and then at dinner time as part of my break). So I hopped online.
Today, I found out that a dear friend of mine miscarried her four month old son.
And suddenly, 50 million lives seem a lot more significant.
In reality, the question has never been “Should abortion be legal?”
The question is, “Does abortion kill a human child?”
Everyone agrees that killing a child is wrong; we differ on what counts as a child.
Why does her precious miscarried son count as a child to be mourned over and grieved for, and the other 50 million can just be passed over as so much tissue?
The death of one makes the death of millions heavier.
Today I wore black, for the sake of my friend’s unborn son who will be mourned and 50 million of his friends who will be ignored.
Photo credit – moonbattery.com. Pro life wristbands avaliable at lifeisaprayer.com.
Californian by birth and Minnesotan by choice, Kristina is a graduate of Northwestern College who enjoys history, cultures and languages, rain, and climbing trees. If she were not what she already is she would probably be a tree-hugging feminist.
