Speaking as a person who recently heard her mother admit to having contemplated when I was conceived -and- having had an abortion prior to my conception, speaking as someone who is the reason for her mother never having finished college, becoming a pilot in the air force and thus obtaining her dream, speaking as someone who watched her mother go through job after job hitting a ceiling because she didn’t have a degree, speaking as someone that lived in a trailer for nearly three years of her lives because neither parent could find a job to support a family in a house or apartment- I find the pro-death stance highly offensive. When mom told me that she had even thought about having an abortion when I was conceived she broke down into tears over breakfast. She told me that had she aborted me, she would have been aborting her best friend, that she would have been aborting the person who jumped into a swimming pool to pull her drowning sister out, the person who spends weekends helping with little projects, etc. Mom carries the guilt of her prior abortions and the notion that she almost put me to the knife so to speak. Yes, Mom was unable to finish college and yes it’s led to hardships but that’s part of life. All those kids that are being aborted haven’t even had the chance to live and make something of themselves. How many foster kids go on to write best selling books? How many kids that are wards of the state turn their lives around to start a charity or become leaders of outreach programs? God does what he does for a reason. Mom’s dreams didn’t come true, no, but I am grateful that mom gave me the chance to accomplish mine.