Abortion: Just Think About It

Teen moms are a growing epidemic in the U.S. According to Pregnancy Info.net, the U.S. has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy. Maybe it's due to peer pressure, misuse of birth control, or, unfortunate circumstances ( i.e. rape, incest).

Whatever the case is , young women have to be educated and know that they have options. I know abortion is mostly associated with murder, not giving a child life. However, with some of the new cases of the horrific side of teen pregnancies, some teen moms are taking their child lives into their own hands, killing their children emotionally and physically.

Last summer, I watched a special on the Oprah Winfrey show that featured a young woman named Jessica Coleman. She was serving a five-year sentence for the murder of her own son. She explained that when she found out she was pregnant, she and her boyfriend, at the time, opted to keep it a secret. To prevent anyone from noticing her pregnancy, he used to stand on her stomach and she wouldn't eat as much (and give her unborn child the nutrition it needed) so her stomach wouldn't show.

I know young girls don't want to deal with the guilt of abortion, thinking as if they're killing their child, but in this case, they were doing it initially...they were already using their own form of aborting the baby. Even after she gave birth, she noticed that her son wasn't breathing and may be still born. Too scared to ask her family or call 911, she waited a while to see if her son would start breathing and when she returned and saw he hadn't, she stabbed him with a knife to take his pain away.