Grief

So, I try to leave my work at work. I try not to bring any of the sad stuff home with me, and I often succeed. I am pretty good at leaving stuff there, but I cant shake this one thing. I had a client come in two weeks ago. She was 31 and was pregnant. The father of the baby was a drug dealer and "a bad man". She did not want to have his child. She said she couldn't do it on her own. She was such a sweet woman, and I pleaded with her to look at how she has raised her other daughter alone. I tried to encourage her and show her that God does not give you something you can't handle. She is a Christian and believes abortion is wrong and she cried the entire time she was in my room.



She had an abortion this last Saturday on October 18. This baby is no longer alive. This innocent child's heart is no longer beating because a "surgeon" decided that giving abortions was a good profession and because this woman made the mistake one night of sleeping with someone that she did not love or trust (besides the fact that they weren't married, but don't get me started on that). I'm sad. This little baby was supposed to be born on June 5 2009. She or He was 7 weeks and 1 day old but now wont have a birthday. I'm also mad. What gives us the right to take a baby's life? I know some people will argue that these women should not be having children, that these kids being born will just grow up in poverty, that they might have a bad life, but when did we decide that we could choose whether or not they would get that life? I think it's sick and sad that we have told women that this is ok. When I called her yesterday, I asked her how she was doing. She said she was very sad. She sounded weak and lost. She will have to deal with Post Abortion Stress Syndrome. Why did we as a society tell her that this was ok? Why did we decide that this was humaine and a woman's right? Half of these babies being killed are women...what about them?