Only Human

Emily
Mar 6, 2014
4 min read

Updated: Apr 12

This post was inspired by this post by Matt Walsh. If you haven't read it, I recommend you do so before proceeding.

It's sad isn't it? Actually, more than that, it's sickening.

To think that there are so many things we are willing to stand for, and for so many people, the slaughter of unborn children is one of those things.

Think you don't stand for it? If you've got nothing to say on the matter, I beg to differ. In saying nothing, you give your silent approval. Because if you're really against it, why not speak up about it? These are unborn children we're talking about...they don't exactly have a voice of their own just yet. They are silent and utterly defenseless should someone decide to lay siege against them one day while they are hanging out in the womb.

So, if they can't speak, and we won't, who will? Nobody. Instead, we will all just stand by and watch, or perhaps worse, turn our heads and our hearts away from the slaying.

Have you seen the statistics? They're downright staggering. I've known it's a lot, but it's like a slap-in-the-face, wake-up, reality check when you really stop and look at it. It's more than just numbers...it's the lives of the innocent. And if you ask me, even one is too many.

But there's been more than a billion times one too many. Just think...a billion babies. Can you fathom that? The U.S. Census Bureau estimates the world population at 7.119 billion. And over a billion have already been aborted. So that's what, like easily 1/8 of what the world's population shoulda, coulda, woulda been if not for people thinking that what makes a life valuable were something that was up to them to decide.

And it's heartwrenching. To think that one's status as "born" or "unborn" can determine whether or not there is human life within them is quite disturbing. Have these people seen the sonograms? Have they heard the heartbeat? Have they felt that person growing withing them kicking like crazy, letting them know they're alive and well in there? Because, I for one, cannot fathom how those things aren't enough evidence. Has society really sunk so low that the very things that make us human outside of the womb do not qualify us when we are within it?

Apparently it has. And the fact that we act as if it doesn't matter simply because it doesn't affect us is an atrocity.

At what point does it start to snowball and all of a sudden, we find ourselves in a society that starts selecting for us which ones are of enough "worth" to let live? Or they somehow decide that the moment a baby exits the birth canal and takes that first miraculous breath no longer qualifies them for personhood and that they have to achieve certain milestones before they can be considered human?

Sound far-fetched? Because morally speaking, it seems our society isn't all that far off from such insanity. I mean, after all, they already think that the humanity of people in the earliest stages of life, which we all originated from, has not only been brought into question, but determined to be something other than which it is -- a person.

To put it into perspective, consider my daughter Kaycee (pictured here at the hospital, immediately following her first bath, when she was fresh out of the womb.) Does she look human? (Be careful how you answer that...) Because just a few short hours earlier, she had still been inside of me. Some pro-choice people would argue she wasn't human until she was born. But I was there, as was my husband, a midwife, and a slew of other medical personnel, and I think they would attest to the fact that she very much was an offspring of the human race before being born. And while the whole process of pregnancy and childbirth is a rather remarkable (I daresay miraculous) thing, this child did not morph from a clump of cells or any other unhuman thing into a human being as she exited my loins. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.

But if you still don't believe me...if you still think that my baby was anything but a baby before she was born, then you should have been there the first time we heard her heartbeat. Or at any of my sonograms, particularly the one that I had the day before I went into labor, because she was definitely a baby then, too. Or maybe you should have put your hand on my belly and felt what a spunky little life she was, even then. Or if you aren't the touchy-feely type, you could have just watched my belly move and roll around as the person within me attempted to rearrange herself.

But if you still don't believe that babies are humans pre-birth, then there is nothing more I can offer you to change your mind.

But I can pray for you, especially if you ever decide to take the life of a little unborn one, all because you say it shall not be so.