no compromise

Tomorrow is January 22. I'm sure you noticed this if you've looked at a calendar. But what, precisely, makes tomorrow memorable?

Some would say that on this day in 1973, a great victory was won in the women's rights battle. A great step forward, they would say. They obtained the right to their own body.

But was January 22, 1973, actually a great step forward? Was this day, the day when the momentous Roe vs. Wade case was settled in the Supreme Court, was this day really such a phenomenal scientific achievement?

On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court ruled on the case Roe vs. Wade. Up until this point in history, every one of the fifty states had outlawed abortion. Of their own free will, and at popular consent. A woman who wanted an abortion fought in court with her unborn baby's father, trying to get an abortion. They battled all the way to the Supreme Court, where the case was named Roe vs. Wade. In a history-making decision, the Supreme court ruled in Roe's favor and overturned laws in each of the fifty states outlawing abortion.

Every child who has been born since has become a survivor of one of the worst slaughters in history.

I am a survivor of '73. 

"Since 1973, 1/3 of my generation 

has been slaughtered 

by abortion at a rate of 

4,000 babies per day. 

My friends...My classmates...My generation

compromised by the selfishness of others. 

As a survivor, I will not let 

future generations be 

murdered 

in the name of convenience. 

I will NOT be silent. 

I will NOT forget. 

I will NOT compromise."

A common argument for abortion is that it's the woman's body. Unfortunately for those proponents of abortion who like to tout this "fact", it's not actually a scientific fact. The unborn child has its own unique DNA - completely separate from its mother's. The article that the link refers to talks of the unborn child, or fetus, as having a completely unique DNA from its mother - so much so that doctors can screen the DNA for genetic diseases.

While the argument of the child having its own DNA is unfortunately not enough to convince many abortion proponents, it is still significant to note that not only is this a fact, but also that if a man kills a pregnant woman, he is charged not with one murder, but two - hers and her unborn baby's. An abortion doctor from Philadelphia, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, has been charged with eight counts of murder for killing a woman, and seven other babies. He was breaking many other laws as well, but only one woman died. Who are the other murder counts for? Babies.

I will NOT be silent.

I will NOT forget. 

I will NOT compromise. 

-enna