Please, when you think about this issue, think about the women you know. The best way to reduce the abortion rate is to improve access to birth control, health care for women, and child care. IвЂ™m worried that IвЂ™m going to see teenage girls with sepsis, bleeding, and death from complications of illegal abortions. You may not be a hold-a-sign-and-engage-in-public-debate activist, but every Christian should take a stand against abortion. But itвЂ™s not enough to say you are against abortion. IвЂ™m a pediatric emergency room doctor now, and IвЂ™m worried. Well, IвЂ™m glad youвЂ™re against child-killing. TheyвЂ™re personal, and they should not be dictated by the government.ДЄbortions still happened in high numbers in the pre-Roe v. They chose the latter, and after a couple of days she stopped breathing and died in her motherвЂ™s arms. We could either put her on a ventilator, feed with tubes, do multiple surgeries, or we could make her comfortable and not intervene. She wouldnвЂ™t live long, even with intervention. After some testing we determined what the problem was, and unfortunately it was severe. She was a beautiful baby, and the parents had no prenatal warning anything was wrong. I was in the NICU and a baby was admitted with multiple abnormalities. Where did this come from? Thinking about that reminded me of another family IвЂ™ll never forget. Starting around the last election, the lie that abortions happen up to the moment of birth and that somehow the Democratic Party was in favor of infanticide became popular. Would you call them murderers and have them thrown in jail? That means that among people you know, your friends, and yourВ relatives and loved ones, there are women who have had an abortion. One in four American women will have an abortion by the time they are 45. If it was understandable in this case, who was I to judge what was understandable in any other case? How could I judge this lady? I couldnвЂ™t and I didnвЂ™t, and right then it dawned on me that for all of the women facing termination of a pregnancy I didnвЂ™t know, and no one but the woman knows, what led her to the decision. The fetus had anomalies incompatible with survival. I donвЂ™t remember exactly how far along she was, but into the second trimester. There was a woman who was terminating a pregnancy. It was on the OB/GYNВ rotation that I started to see things differently. For example, I trained in the pre-Viagra era and scrubbed in on several operations on men to allow them to have erections. This was the only medical procedure with that choice. Once we started clinical rotations, there was an option to excuse yourself from participation in abortions, and I opted out.

I wasnвЂ™t active in the anti-abortion movement after those couple of instances, but I continued to believe in it through college. REGISTER EDITORIAL: Women's stories remind us why Roe saved lives

Im pro life