One

I had turned on the television tonight as I was folding laundry and waiting for Jared to get home. I was astonished to see this add play. As I continued to watch and listen to Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe), my heart tore. Knowing that she was the one who advocated and fought to have abortion legalized. To listen to her admit to never having one. She is now fighting against abortion, but can she ever undo all the harm one decision made? Millions of children have been subject to this brutal and murderous action, spawning from her choice to fight for an abortion because of an unplanned pregnancy. That little girl, was put up for adoption after birth. Following her conversion to Christianity, Norma came to see how wrong she had been. In her book, Won by Love, she wrote,
"I was sitting in O.R.'s offices when I noticed a fetal development poster. The progression was so obvious, the eyes were so sweet. It hurt my heart, just looking at them. I ran outside and finally, it dawned on me. "Norma," I said to myself, "They're right." I had worked with pregnant women for years. I had been through three pregnancies and deliveries myself. I should have known. Yet something in that poster made me lose my breath. I kept seeing the picture of that tiny, 10-week-old embryo, and I said to myself, that's a baby! It's as if blinders just fell off my eyes and I suddenly understood the truth--that's a baby!"
I felt crushed under the truth of this realization. I had to face up to the awful reality. Abortion wasn't about "products of conception." It wasn't about "missed periods." It was about children being killed in their mother's wombs. All those years I was wrong. Signing that affidavit, I was wrong. Working in an abortion clinic, I was wrong. No more of this first trimester, second trimester, third trimester stuff. Abortion–at any point–was wrong. It was so clear. Painfully clear."
I am very grateful that she has come to understand the sacredness of life, that abortion at any stage is wrong. How I wish however, that Lucifer were not quite so cunning. It seems to be a special tool of his to be able to confuse our minds, particularly when we are young, with new ideas. I have always believed that one person can make a difference, one choice. Here is a prime example of how drastic the ripples can be, how far reaching they are. She wanted a legal abortion, and now, millions of babies have not had the chance to take a breath of air. Now we have to fight to stop more legal measures being made on abortions side. One person, one choice, has changed millions. Her story gives much more power to the quantity of one.
It makes me hope that I will not be one to hide in the shadows. Instead, I will be one to make a choice, to make a difference. That I will minimize my negative one choices and maximize the positive. Although one choice that we make may not have such visible consequences as that of Roe v. Wade, each and every choice has them, and they are much farther reaching than we typically expect. I think we all need to remember and respect the difference one choice, one person, can make.