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47. Dealing with Human Sacrifice
Once again, I was very impressed with the
comments and elaboration my son made on the written
essay text portion of his medical school application:
When I was born, abortion was illegal in most
states. There wasn't much information available
about the circumstances of my birth, but I have
to wonder if I would exist today, had I been
conceived in the 1980's or the 1990's. I have a
very high regard for human life because of my
circumstances. I would like to give others what
has been given to me -- life. I have high moral
and ethical standards and a true interest in the
well-being of mankind. I intend to make it my
goal to help people gain mobility, battle against
needless suffering and premature death. As an
adopted child, I sense that my life's mission is to
pay back through a life of medical service, that
gift that was given to me many years ago.
Helen Westover was at one time a pro-choice
feminist. Writing in
AllAboutIssues,
she describes "the
hardest case of all," which has to deal with how the
pro-choice debate wounds _adoptees:
Every syllable of the pro-abortion rhetoric
wounds the adoptee. Many of us struggle with
feelings of low self-esteem due to abandonment
and rejection to which · we feel we were
subjected. When adoptees hear "choice-speak,"
· it cruelly reinforces all that self-doubt. Adoptees
are another group of people who are injured by
the pro-choice rhetoric. The Adopted People for
Life Organization encourages adoptees in general
to enter the pro-life struggle because it is our
struggle. Our pre-born brothers and sisters, who
in a saner time would have been adopted, are
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