When I received a text on Friday morning telling me the Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade , it felt as if I could let out a breath I had been holding since I was a young child. Among my very earliest memories are the greetings and goodbyes surrounding the death of my baby sister. I was nearly three when my mother delivered her. She lived for a few hours and then died. Her name was Judith. My mother had known Judith was developing abnormally in the womb and had little chance of a normal life or even surviving at all. But she resisted the doctor’s advice to abort her baby. In that single act, my parents taught me more about the inherent value of human life than I could ever learn elsewhere, and demonstrated the humility and courage it takes to live in a way that upholds that value. There was sadness in our family, and while it never fully dissipated, happiness returned to a great extent with the birth of my sister Hannah. When I was about 11, that lingering sadness was joined by confusion and anger when I first learned what abortion was. For several years… Read full this story
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