The Rights of those already here - a personal story and other thoughts

[Mira]

I hesitate to write and expound on something that is so obvious to me, and is so lacking in today's responses to the murder of the "Abortion doctor".
Yet I will, and I will do so in a number of ways, it will be a catharsis.

First, only Andrew Sullivan (that I heard) made a point of mentioning that late term abortions were critical to the survival of the mother either physically, or emotionally. Bearing the baby could have killed her, or made her life very difficult if she was not prepared to bear a severely malformed child. Her options were few, and the courageous doctors even more rare.

The law allows this survival help to mothers. The inciting ignorance and rhetoric of the right wing spokes people allows the law to be "broken" by domestic terrorists, who may if caught and convicted have to suffer legal consequences, but live in an elevated and exalted state of avenger in the eyes of their deluded supporters.
This is an abomination.
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In my life, I am the oldest of seven children, born female, in the last year of World War II, into a world of re-construction of West Germany.
From one day to the next my Dad took me out of school, where I was doing exceedingly well, at age 16. He had lined up for me to go to work and help raise the 5 boys who were born after my sister, who was child number 2. He was a Methodist Minister, (in Germany a minuscule branch of the protestant Church) and we did not have enough to eat. Simple as that.
Boys, he said, needed an education, girls can get by being married.

We were killing a bottle of whiskey on a night before Mom was going back to Germany after a visit with me and my husband and child in my new country of America.
I was in my early 30's that night and she confessed to me that she had aborted 3 children in back alley abortions between child 6 and 7, and had carried child seven to term as penitence.
I cried. I cried hard. Then I went on my knees and thanked her.

There is such a thing to believe in that God, or who ever you believe in as your "higher power" has given you a brain, a way to make the world work for you. There is a tremendous responsibility this brain power affords you. You not only are in charge of making your life the best it can be, but you also have to totally be cognizant of making previous choices be able to stand on their own and work out.
If that means we have to recognize responsibilities to those already on earth and alive, and not dilute their chances to thrive, that is what we were given evolution, education, and brains for.

At NO TIME do I advocate abortion as birth control, at NO TIME do I want to say that what happened in my family is OK.
I do though want to say that the struggle, indescribable as it is, might not have been survivable to those already here, had there been more people to dilute the struggle. And, as it is, in my family, only some of us survived well.
Nobody, certainly including my mother who told me bloody details as the whiskey flowed, is in favor of abortion.
Nobody.

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Allow me to take this into a metaphysical direction.
If re-incarnation is something you could conceive of as a possible reality for human souls, and if the belief incorporated in it that we chose our own parents as we get re-born in order to advance the karma of our own soul (or possibly the karma of someone in the family we chose if we are a very advanced soul), then it would follow that the body that is being created in the womb is a shell to house the new soul.

A belief in re-incarnation also subscribes to that the soul does not enter the new body until near birth, or birth.
Which means that abortion does not destroy a person, a human, a child, it destroys a housing for a soul.

That soul has options. It can go elsewhere to achieve its karmic goals, or it can wait, till a new body gets built in the same setting.
Time is not of the essence, time is large, and very fluid.

I do not look for or am sad about the brothers and sisters I might have had.
I look for brothers and sisters around me, that are alive, and in need of friendship, or help, or siblings of my choice as in my friends.

Thanks for letting me say this.

[I Have A Dream]

1. Thank you for sharing your story with us, Mira. nt

[Grey]

2. This is brilliant...

I do not look for or am sad about the brothers and sisters I might have had.
I look for brothers and sisters around me, that are alive, and in need of friendship, or help, or siblings of my choice as in my friends.

Thank You.