"It's my body and I should be able to do what I want with it"

That sentence has been uttered by thousands of women justifying their desire to have a choice to terminate their pregnancies whenever they want. Protesters and activists rally in the parks and march on the streets in the name of "women's rights." I didn't realize that women's rights meant killing an unborn child.

Look, abortion is murder, plain and simple. I can already see your hateful comments now. I might as well be living in the Stone Age with that mentality, right?

Before you start throwing the "it's a fetus, not a child" comments at me, let's brush up on our Latin. Fetus is a Latin word meaning "young child," but through the years, fetus has become a clinical, dehumanized term for an unborn child. Whether you call it a zygote, blastocyst, embryo, or fetus, it is still a tiny human who has a heartbeat after 22 days and brain activity, eyes, and a mouth after six weeks. There are a lot more scientific facts that prove that a fetus is human from the second of conception, but I won't bore you with all that yet.

What about rape or sexual assault victim? Should a victim have to live with the product of a traumatic event like that? Well, what if your mother or best friend was a product of a rape? Could you look at someone conceived in violence and tell her that she never should have been born? Since when did the way a child was conceived determine their value? Why would you pass on the violence that was perpetrated against you to your own unborn child?

Abortion doesn't erase the memory. There are many stories of women who had children as the result of a traumatic event who say their children were the only good things that came out of it or who gave their children up for adoption because the child deserved a chance at life.

I visited the Shout Your Abortion website to see what women were saying about their abortions. I saw some call their unborn children an "unwanted uterine growth," while others talked about the grief and guilt they felt. My heart hurt for each and every woman and I wanted to give them all a hug. I wish they had felt they had other options. There are so many childless women out there who want nothing more than to carry their own child in their womb and would jump at the chance to care for a baby.

There are a lot of other arguments and facts I would like to discuss but I'll save them for a later date. I know some women feel like an abortion is the most merciful thing they can do for a child, but snuffing out a life isn't merciful. We cry about whales being slaughtered and demand justice for murderers while also demanding for the right to kill an unborn human. How does that make sense?