About me
I created this blog for my English assignment to choose and read a non-fiction book and share my own discoveries and opinions about my topic. Since before I can remember, I've been regularly going to my Catholic Church and was raised with the ideas and arguments that it teaches, such as being selfless, forgiving, welcoming, but at the same time, being against many things that are considered against the way of truth and life, such as gay marriage,divorce, premarital sex, etc. Although I was shoved all of these morals and lessons into my mind since a young age, I found some arguments that I didn't find perfectly ethical; there were so many "what if?"'s to every situation. When I was first assigned to this project, I automatically thought of boring biographies of people that have been dead for a hundred years, but then I found a book that caught my eye. And the topic, as you probably know by now, is about abortion.
Why Abortion?
Abortion has been and still is a heated conflict that divided communities and sometimes even families. As a cradle catholic, I am very familiar these types of arguments, and this is not the first time I will be engaging into the topic of abortion. But the only other times I have legitimately discussed it was with my church and how it was murdering an unborn life, and how nobody has the right to take one's life except for God. There. Plain and simple. Abortion is a crime in which humans are taking a life that is only privileged to the One, so it's beyond wrong. And as much as I'd like to completely give my trust and my everything to God and fully support this, I would be lying if I say that if I got raped and became pregnant, I wouldn't seriously consider abortion as an option. And I must admit, even if I knew what I was doing and didn't plan for it to happen, I'd still be so scared and put abortion into my list of choices to choose from. I sympathize with the unborn children that were robbed of their lives before they could even begin to live it, but I also sympathize for some of the mothers that were so afraid and could see no better path for their future. I know how much of a big decision it must be for the women, and how difficult it must have been to go through with it. Not only do they get pressure from the media, but their family and friends don't always support them into the right decision. But what is the right decision? With all of the "what if"'s and arguments that I've heard from both sides, it's almost impossible for me to choose a side that I fully support, and just standing on the side and letting it happen isn't an option for me, not as a human nor a Catholic. After I finish reading my book and see what both sides have to say, I will say this now, I will keep strong to my faith and support the teaching of God, but I want to keep an open mind and understand both arguments instead of blindly following and supporting whatever the Church tells me to.