By Vanessa Overholser - Staff Writer
Everyone has an opinion and this one is mine. You can either love me or hate me for it. Regardless, it’s my opinion and as long as it’s a free country I’ll express it. So here it is. My topic today is about the artist I wrote about in Friday’s edition.
The subject of my story was June Savage Adams. She is a local sculptor who conducted an art show April 16 until May 16 at the Morehead Conference Center. As I indicated in my article, her art show was done with the right to life theme. She is currently working on establishing an education program for life and healing.
I want everyone to know that this bright, kind and skillful lady does not diminish the credibility of those who have made their decision to have an abortion. She is merely trying to convey the truth about what really happens to a fetus once its being aborted.
As I stood with her in the conference center Tuesday, I felt as if I were in the midst of a memorial site. The feeling of sorrow crept over me as though the unborn children she portrayed in her artwork were my own children. I fought back tears as I listened to the artist explain each piece.
She told me that she wanted to do an art show with a prominent topic that affects everyone. Abortion is one topic that seems to be the most widely discussed and argued and yet still there are some individuals who are uneducated about it.
She did extensive research on the subject. As she researched her topic she watched the procedure being done on the Internet. I shrieked in horror as she described how the doctor would take a sharp object and stab the child in the back of the head as it was partially being born. She told me that doctors who do abortions use other methods such as injecting various poisons into an unborn fetus and watch it as it struggled for life.
As I sat listening to Adams, I could not help but think about my two wonderful happy, healthy children. I could not understand how anyone could do such a thing to a poor innocent baby. I experienced an overwhelming sense of sadness and an incredible need to sob for those helpless little ones.
I really didn’t need Adams to convince me to be pro-life. I already had my opinion. However, that did not detour me from thinking about how I would react if I had been raped and then become pregnant as a result.
I still would not abort that child. It is a life that was sanctioned by God regardless of the origin of its conception. I feel it is a life that should be respected. That child could have a chance to live a life that is good.
I think that most women and young girls panic when something like this happens. So the most common thing that comes to their mind is to get rid of it (baby). They want to get rid of the memory of being raped. That I understand but what many people seem to forget is that fetus does not have a choice. It is defenseless. It did not cause a woman to get raped. The man who did it chose to do it. He is the focus of your revenge and not that baby.
Adams’s program would be a great edition to any family planning class, pregnancy centers all across this nation. I think people need to get education on the abortion procedure before actually doing it.
Think of it this way: What if your mother decided to abort you because she was raped or you had a mental, physical deficiency, would abortion be the best choice for you? Think about it.
